How to Tame the Insurance Industry Cycle & Make the Legal System More Efficient: A Suggested Legislative Agenda for 1987 – Part 2
<p class="source">NICO - 8/8/86</p>
Insurance
Insurance news, investigations, and reform — auto, home, and health insurance rates, claims denials, and industry accountability.
The blame game; The cause of the malpractice insurance crisis depends on who’s doing the talking
<p class="source">Modern Physician</p>
<p>As malpractice premiums skyrocket and carriers abandon markets, trial attorneys and insurers are blaming each other for the mess.</p>
Consumer Groups Blame Premium Hikes On Regulatory Inaction
<p class="source">BestWire</p>
<p>Faced with steep increases in premium rates across personal and commercial lines, a newly formed coalition of consumer and public interest groups is urging state regulators to rein in insurers from raising rates.</p>
Midsize Firms in Pacific Region Bear Brunt of Rising Health Costs
<p class="source">The Los Angeles Daily News</p>
<p>Double-digit increases in health benefit costs have hurt the state's midsize companies hardest because they lack the power of larger firms to negotiate better coverage or the ability of small businesses to cut benefits according to a new industry survey.</p>
HR 4600 Will Harm Patients & Enrich Only Insurers
<h3>Testimony of Jamie Court</h3>
<p>In an age where expanding patients' rights has become a national demand, HR 4600 would dramatically contract patients' rights across the nation. This anti-consumer legislation will shield HMOs and providers they influence from legal accountability</p>
Transcript Re: Corporate Responsibility
<p class="source">CNN TV - LOU DOBBS MONEYLINE</p>
<p>The California Senate passed a law that would hold corporate executives personally liable for failing to report suspected accounting fraud at their companies. The law would also prohibit executives from making statements intended to inflate the value...</p>
Consumer Group Becomes Feared Force
<p class="source">Merced Sun-Star</p>
<p>Nobody elected Harvey Rosenfield or Doug Heller or Jamie Court. But on pocketbook issues from insurance rates to electricity policy and health care, their Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights has now emerged as one of the most significant players i</p>
Consumer Group Becomes Feared Force
<p class="source">Merced Sun-Star</p>
<p>Nobody elected Harvey Rosenfield or Doug Heller or Jamie Court. But on pocketbook issues from insurance rates to electricity policy and health care, their Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights has now emerged as one of the most significant players i</p>
Editorial – Protect Whistleblowers
<p class="source">The San Francisco Chronicle</p>
<p>The state's energy crisis, the collapse of Enron, Arthur Andersen's document shredding and the resulting scandal that cost investors billions of dollars and ordinary citizens their life savings, should have taught us a lesson about financial fraud and</p>
Telecom Update: CPUC Commissioner Duque Case Stayed
<p class="source">Communications Daily</p>
<p>Cal. appeals court stayed lower court ruling that would oust PUC Comr. Henry Duque from office because of financial conflict of interest. Cal. Court of Appeals for First Dist. issued stay without comment.</p>
Enron-inspired whistle-blower measure faces Assembly battle
<p class="source">San Gabriel Valley Tribune</p>
<p>Legislation narrowly approved last week by the state Senate that would require corporate executives to report a company's suspected illegal activities now faces a tough battle in the Assembly where consumer advocates say many Democrats are more beholden</p>
Editorial: Do-nothing Politics;
<h3>When the going gets tough, more and more lawmakers are taking a walk</h3><p class="source">The San Francisco Chronicle</p>
<p>An outbreak of spinelessness has struck the California Assembly. Significant bills are failing because legislators are turning strategically silent or absent at key moments. The problem is, the rules require a majority of all committee members - not just</p>