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STATE TELECOM ACTIVITIES

June 17, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Communications Daily</p> <p>The Cal. Senate's Constitutional Amendments Committee advanced a bill (SCA-6) for a constitutional amendment that would make the Cal. PUC an elected body rather than appointed.</p>

Medical Malpractice Executive Testifies That Malpractice Caps Do Not Reduce Risk

June 10, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Written Testimony of SCPIE Executive In Response to Prop 103-Challenge to Rate Increase</h3> <p>Written testimony of SCPIE Assistant Vice President and Associate Actuary James Robertson, who claims that California's malpractice caps law, known as MICRA, does not reduce the risk of malpractice insurance in California. * See, in particular, page 4</p>

Corporateering: Jamie Court on Commerce, Culture, and ‘the Good Life’

June 10, 2003  ·  Jamie Court

<p class="source">Publishers Weekly Daily</p> <p>We've got to create better opportunities to dissent within the corporation. There has to be more dissent within the culture as well about what corporations do inappropriately.</p>

CONSUMER, ACTIVIST GROUPS PETITION CALIF. REGULATOR ON ZIP CODE RATING

June 10, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">BestWire</p> <p>Consumer groups and several city attorneys have petitioned California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi to strike down a 7-year-old rule dictating how much weight auto insurers may give to a driver's ZIP code in their rate-setting and underwriting.</p>

Consumer first, citizen second

June 9, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The San Francisco Chronicle</p> <p>Will this stop what Court calls "corporateering" -- when corporations exceed their traditional role in the marketplace, invade our private lives and compromise our rights to privacy?</p>

Woman, Denied Representation, Lives Life of Constant Pain

June 9, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Cynthia Smith - Concord, California</h3>

Who’s behind the curtain?

June 9, 2003  ·  Jamie Court

<h3>Consumer advocate Jamie Court talks about his new book, Corporateering</h3><p class="source">Chico News & Review</p> <p>The book features a foreword from best-selling author and fellow muckraker Michael Moore, who calls the book a "road map and battle plan" for taking back the cultural turf lost to corporations over the last two decades.</p>

Mixed week for consumer rights

June 6, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The San Francisco Examiner</p> <p>"Word of mouth is what corporations want most, and what they fear most," says Court, director of the Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights. "And we've got it."</p>

Group pickets Bowen for stance on corporate crime bill

June 6, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">DAILY BREEZE (Santa Monica, CA)</p> <p>Members of the group held up posters claiming Bowen's key vote in an Assembly committee was tantamount to "excusing corporate crimes against society."</p>

Consumer Advocates Blame Two Democrats for Bill’s Failure

June 4, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Associated Press</p> <p>"Any politician who believes that convicted corporate felons should not have the same responsibility to society as other three-time felons is out of touch with the public's anger over the lack of corporate accountability," said Jamie Court of FTCR.</p>

Pushing its proposal; Blue Shield of Calif. touts new wide-ranging plan

June 2, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Modern Healthcare</p> <p>"Theirs is a bill designed by insurers for insurers, so it's not surprising that they're investing so heavily in promoting it," said Jerry Flanagan, director of the advocacy group's California Health Consensus Project.</p>

CONSUMER, ACTIVIST GROUPS PETITION CALIF. REGULATOR ON ZIP CODE RATING

June 2, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">BestWire</p> <p>Consumer groups and several city attorneys have petitioned California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi to strike down a 7-year-old rule dictating how much weight auto insurers may give to a driver's ZIP code in their rate-setting and underwriting.</p>