Insurance

Time to speak the ‘I’ word

June 14, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Press-Enterprise Editorial</h3><p class="source">Riverside Press-Enterprise</p> <p>At this point, it would be foolhardy to predict that we've heard all we are going to hear about Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush.</p>

Senator releases confidential audits of Northridge insurers

June 13, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Associated Press</p> <p>Insurance Department auditors found patterns of stalling and lowballed settlement offers by four insurers handling Northridge earthquake-related claims, reports released Monday show.</p>

Reports on Quake Claims Made Public

June 13, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Insurance: Confidential records released by state Senate leaders show 20th Century, State Farm and Allstate mishandled hundreds of cases.</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>State Senate leaders Monday released confidential state reports showing that three of the nation's largest insurance companies--20th Century, State Farm and Allstate--mishandled hundreds of claims following the Northridge earthquake.</p>

Documents Show Insurers Botched Quake Claims

June 13, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">San Francisco Chronicle</p> <p>Confidential documents that Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush refused to give the Legislature show scores of cases in which insurance companies were cited for improperly handling claims from the 1994 Northridge earthquake.</p>

Secret audits rip insurance firms

June 12, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">San Francisco Examiner</p> <p>Insurance companies repeatedly low-balled claims and misled victims after the Northridge earthquake, confidential audits released Monday show, but Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush allowed the companies to donate to foundations that benefited him</p>

Resign — Now. Quackenbush is unfit for his office

June 10, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Tribune Editorial</h3><p class="source">San Diego Union Tribune</p> <p>State Insurance Commissioner Charles Quackenbush has shown himself to be unfit to continue in his post. He should resign; otherwise, he will face the growing prospect of becoming only the second statewide officeholder in California history to be impeached</p>

Quackenbush’s Conduct Invites Impeachment

June 9, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Chronicle Editorial</h3><p class="source">San Francisco Chronicle</p> <p>THE WAVE of condemning revelations of state Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush's conduct grows taller by the day. Penalty fines were steered to buff his image, checks possibly forged, and a foundation misused as a front for political advantage</p>

Quackenbush Exit Time

June 9, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Times Editorial</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>The message was clear to state Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush late Thursday: Quit or face impeachment proceedings in the Legislature. Quackenbush can save California the cost and distraction of impeachment by stepping down now.</p>

Insurance Czar’s Aide Under Fire

June 9, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Testimony on mystery checks at Quackenbush foundation</h3><p class="source">San Francisco Chronicle</p> <p>Suggestions of criminal wrongdoing surfaced for the first time at an Assembly Insurance Committee hearing yesterday over testimony that checks may have been forged and board minutes falsified for a foundation set up by Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quacken</p>

Checks were forged, minutes falsified, Assembly panel told

June 9, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Quackenbush fund linked to possible crimes</h3><p class="source">Associated Press</p> <p>Board members of a nonprofit fund created by Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush described possible criminal activity including falsified meeting minutes and checks that may have been forged.</p>

Quackenbush Critic Talks Impeachment

June 8, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Investigation: Committee's first public mention of possibility comes from the commissioner's own party</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>The senior Republican on the state Assembly committee investigating California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush said Wednesday that evidence "points in the direction" of impeachment of the state's chief insurance regulator.</p>

PR Firm’s Funding Scheme for Quackenbush

June 8, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Memo spelled out plan to polish his image</h3><p class="source">San Francisco Chronicle</p> <p>Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush's mounting troubles may stem from a public relations firm's scheme to use fines from the insurance industry to polish his political image, a memo revealed yesterday.</p>