Insurance

Resign, Mr. Quackenbush

May 7, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Los Angeles Times Editorial</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>State Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush still insists that he had the consumer's interests at heart. How could that be, when he cut a deal that let insurance companies "donate" $12.8 million to private foundations he established rather than pay fin</p>

Human vs. Corporate Rights To Genetic Information

May 3, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">San Francisco Chronicle</p> <p>LAST MONTH, a private corporation announced that it was winning the race with the public scientific team, the Human Genome Project, to decipher a human volunteer's genome.</p>

Freeze proposed on fund created by Quackenbush

May 2, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Lawmaker wants Northridge quake victims to benefit</h3><p class="source">Associated Press</p> <p>A lawmaker wants to freeze $6 million in a fund created by state Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush. The legislator said he wants to make sure the money reaches Northridge earthquake victims.</p>

Bill seeks to seize Quackenbush fund for quake victims

May 2, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Sacramento Bee</p> <p>Two state legislators want to seize $6 million from a nonprofit foundation Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush created through insurance settlements and give the money to victims of the 1994 Northridge earthquake.</p>

FTCR Allstate Earthquake Case

May 1, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Policyholders To Be Paid in Full, New Foundation Established</h3> <p>On September 30, 1997, FTCR filed suit against Allstate Insurance Company.</p>

Arbitration Increasingly Under Fire

April 30, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">San Francisco Examiner</p> <p>Unhappy with her treatment in a 1997 medical examination and not wanting to sue the doctor and just quietly seek a settlement, Maureen Alexander and her husband went up against Blue Cross of California in arbitration.</p>

AIDES ISSUE 25-PAGE DEFENSE OF QUACKENBUSH’S ACTIONS;

April 27, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>INSURANCE: DOCUMENT ACCUSES DEMOCRATS OF HYPOCRISY. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL CRITICIZESCOMMISSIONER.</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>As the California Assembly prepared for its first public hearing today probing state Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush's activities, his political aides issued a 25-page defense of the commissioner's handling of Northridge earthquake penalties.</p>

The Quackenbush Foundations

April 27, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<!-- excerpt --><p>According to news reports, Mr. Quackenbush has set up three non-profit foundations. The foundations are apparently controlled by Quackenbush or other CDI officials, though Mr. Quackenbush has denied that he controls the foundations. The Board of Directors</p>

Quackenbush Lets the Insurance Companies Off the Hook

April 27, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>In Exchange for Donations to Non-profits He Controls And Campaign Contributions</h3> <p>News releases and other records previously issued by Commissioner Quackenbush indicate that major insurers agreed to make relatively modest donations to one or more non-profit foundations as "settlement" of the agency's confidential Market Conduct investi</p>

Insurers Made Campaign Contributions to Quackenbush Which He Used to Pay Off Personal Campaign Debts

April 27, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<!-- excerpt --><p>A detailed analysis of the campaign finance records of Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush and his wife Chris Quackenbush, who made a failed bid for State Senate in 1998, provide further evidence of inappropriate behavior.</p>

CA. Dept. of Insurance Investigation Reveals Massive Wrongdoing by Insurers in Northridge

April 27, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<!-- excerpt --><p>The Market Conduct Exams of three companies - State Farm, Allstate and 20th Century - found that these companies had committed massive violations of §790.03. The companies were found to have routinely delayed, denied, low-balled and misled their customer</p>

Insurance Companies Should Not Compromise Impartiality of Judicial Process to Save Money

April 24, 2000  ·  Pam Pressley

<h3>Opinion Editorial by Pam Pressley, FTCR</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Daily Journal</p> <p>Our civil justice system has come under attack on many fronts-from the usurpation of our right to a trial by jury by banks, insurance companies and HMOs that foist mandatory arbitration upon us to the corporate financing of judges' campaigns that stack th</p>