Insurance

Insurance companies decry effort to reassess homeowner risk

June 30, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Los Angeles Business Journal</p> <p>Insurers are challenging Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi's efforts to limit the industry use of electronic claims data in underwriting homeowners' policies.</p>

California’s malpractice-suit cap eyed in Pennsylvania Congress

June 30, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Philadelphia Inquirer</p> <p>"Prop 103 is the real deal," said Jamie Court, executive director of the Foundation for Taxpayers and Consumer Rights in Santa Monica, which wrote 103. "MICRA is basically Milli Vanilli lip-synching."</p>

Corporateering Book Review

June 27, 2003  ·  Jamie Court

<p class="source">The San Francisco Bay Guardian</p> <p>Corporateers invade our privacy, trick us with deceptive advertising, attack our rights of organization and association, compromise press freedom, erode our rights to use the courts, endanger our health and safety, corrupt our electoral system, and turn p</p>

The language of change;

June 19, 2003  ·  Jamie Court

<h3>'Corporateering' and how corporate power steals your personal freedom</h3><p class="source">Pasadena Weekly</p> <p>How many times have you declined to pick up the phone to follow-up something because you dreaded the voice-mail hell or disempowered employee that you knew you'd encounter? You've been corporateered!</p>

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>

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>

Woman, Denied Representation, Lives Life of Constant Pain

June 9, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

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

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>

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>