Stillwater Report: California Strategic Fuels Reserve – March 2002
<p class="source">Tim Hamilton - AUTO</p>
Insurance
Insurance news, investigations, and reform — auto, home, and health insurance rates, claims denials, and industry accountability.
VIOLATION OF YOUR RIGHTS
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‘Pressure Building’ to Fix Malpractice
<p class="source">The Palm Beach Post</p>
<p>Now, with premiums soaring 50 percent over the past three years, doctors are crying crisis again. And again, they're pushing the state for relief. How it ends this time might depend on their ability to find common ground....</p>
Cheating Bosses May Face Snitching
<h3>Legislation: A bill to make employees report illegal corporate fiscal practices wins panel's approval. Business and oil interests oppose it.</h3><p class="source">The Los Angeles Times</p>
<p>Over the objections of businesses and oil interests, an Assembly committee on Friday endorsed a bill requiring employees to report cases of fraud by their corporate bosses and imposing severe fines on executives for falsifying financial reports.</p>
How Proposition 103 Changed Insurance Law in California.
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Comparing Consumer-Backed Reforms to “Tort Reform”
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This section explains how consumer reform of the insurance industry differs from the insurance industry's version of reform. Reform of the insurance industry's rates and practices, and so-called "tort reform"...</p>
California’s Malpractice Damage Caps Still Debated
<p class="source">The San Francisco Chronicle</p>
<p>California's cap on damages in medical malpractice lawsuits is being recommended by President Bush as a model for the nation. But his claim that such caps will drive down soaring health care costs is hotly debated by consumer and medical groups.</p>
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Insurer has no plan to lower costs
<h3>Obstetricians say decision renews crisis</h3><p class="source">Las Vegas Review-Journal</p>
<p>Just one day after Clark County obstetricians announced they would reopen their practices to new patients, their primary insurer said sky-high malpractice premiums would not change anytime soon. Without lowered premiums, one doctor said Southern Nevada ob</p>
Insurer Claims of Greatest Losses Ever a Fraud
<p class="source">NICO Press Release 1/6/86</p>
George Joseph (Mercury Insurance)
<h3>How One Rich Insurance CEO Uses His Money to Escape the Law, Undermine Democracy, And Benefit Himself</h3>
<p>George Joseph, the Chairman and CEO of Los Angeles-based Mercury Insurance, a $2.4 billion auto insurance company, has never let democracy get in the way of enriching his company and himself.</p>
AB 1488 — the “Portable Persistency Discount” — Violates State Law
<!-- excerpt --><p>AB 1488 discriminates against the poor and uninsured and violates state law.</p>