Insurance

Consumer Watchdog Calls for Open Debate and Disclosure of Secret Proposals As Insurer Focus Shifts to Insurance Commissioner Lara Sacramento, CA -- The insurance industry’s attempt to pass a secret, last-minute...

Sacramento, CA -- As public opposition mounts to the still-secret, back-room insurance bailout deal in Sacramento, Consumer Watchdog urged vigilance until the Monday, September 11, deadline for new legislation to...

Sacramento, CA --  Fourteen consumer, environmental, economic justice organizations and consumer advocate Ralph Nader said that public interest groups have been intentionally excluded from backroom negotiations with the insurance industry...

Consumer Watchdog Urges Attorney General Bonta to Investigate Industry Collusion on Homeowner Insurance Shortages  "Insurers collected more than $150 billion in premiums from California homeowners over the last 25 years...

Sacramento, CA -- A 17 year veteran insurance industry lobbyist, Michael Gunning, now chief strategy officer for Lighthouse Public Affairs, was taped on a Southwest flight bragging and joking...

Sacramento, CA -- Insurance companies are seeking a multi-billion dollar bailout of the insurance industry for its exposure to wildfire losses, pushing for a last-minute deal at the end of the legislative session.  The...

Secret Black Box Climate Models are Prohibited by Proposition 103 Los Angeles, CA – At a Department of Insurance hearing today, the non-profit organization Consumer Watchdog will propose that California build...

Los Angeles, CA -- Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara yesterday approved a 4%, $16 million, rate hike on Allstate home insurance policyholders, despite the fact that the company misled regulators...

Los Angeles, CA -- State Farm’s announcement on Friday that it would immediately stop selling homeowners insurance to new customers in California is unlawful under Proposition 103, and appears...

Consumer Watchdog Proposes Actions to Address Climate Change and Industry Abuses  Sacramento, CA – Thirty-five years after California voters passed Proposition 103 to protect themselves against skyrocketing insurance rates, insurance companies’...