Insurance

Did Your Blue Shield Health Insurance Rates Increase?

December 2, 2011  ·  Jerry Flanagan

<p> <img class=" alignright size-full wp-image-2228" alt="" src="https://consumerwatchdog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/images_jerrydrawingname.gif" style="float: right; width: 133px; height: 200px;" width="133" height="200" /></p> <p> When will health insurers get the message?  They can't raise our rates and <a href="http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/newsrelease/blue-cross-sued-illegally-raising-%E2%80%9Cannual%E2%80%9D-deductibles-middle-year">cut our benefits</a> and expect to get away with it! Drop us an email and help teach the insurance companies a lesson.</p>

Carrier IQ: Consumer Watchdog Asks Justice, FCC to Investigate

December 2, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> <b>Group asks for investigation of all involved parties</b></p> <p> Advocacy group Consumer Watchdog <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/consumer-watchdog-asks-justice-department-fcc-to-investigate-spyphone-scandal-134916423.html">announced</a> this afternoon that it has sent letters to the Justice Department and the FCC calling on them to investigate not only Carrier IQ, but also operating system makers, as well as handset manufacturers and phone carriers for their role in what it has dubbed the “Spyphone scandal.”</p>

Consumer Watchdog Calls Out Hyundai Elantra’s EPA Certification

December 2, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

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Consumer Group Cries Foul On Hyundai’s 40-MPG Claim

December 2, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> Right when it looks like <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/hyundai/">Hyundai</a> <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/11/16/even-with-thin-inventories-and-growing-demand-hyundai-not-looki/">can do no wrong</a>, we have this: A consumer protection group is asking the United States Environmental Protection Agency to look into claims that the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/hyundai/elantra/">Elantra</a> has exaggerated fuel economy numbers.<br /> <br />

Feds Say No to States Trying to Escape Health Law Consumer Protection

November 29, 2011  ·  Carmen Balber

<p> <img class=" alignright size-full wp-image-2215" alt="" src="https://consumerwatchdog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/images_carmenbdrawingname.gif" style="width: 133px; height: 200px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px; float: right;" width="133" height="200" />The Obama administration yesterday <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/195663-obama-administration-rejects-republican-states-health-waiver-requests">rejected efforts by Indiana and Louisiana</a> to evade the only rule in the federal health reform law that requires insurance companies to cut back on excessive waste, salaries and profits.</p>

What Does Our Health Insurance Rate Reform Really Do And How Can You Help?

November 26, 2011  ·  Jamie Court

<p> The <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-insure-rosenfield-20111126,0,382963.story">Los Angeles Times coverage</a> today of CW founder Harvey Rosenfield and our proposed ballot measure to make health insurance companies publicly justify their rates before raising them drew an angry response from the health insurance industry.</p> <p> What does the <a href="http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/blog/big-news-were-going-ballot">Insurance Rate Public Justification and Accountability Act</a> do and how can you help?</p>

Consumer Advocate Harvey Rosenfield Takes on Health Insurers

November 26, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> <b>Rosenfield, who used California's initiative process to regulate auto insurance rates more than two decades ago, is preparing a new initiative that would force health insurers to get state approval before they could raise premiums.</b></p>

Surely the White House won’t swallow the insurance lobby lies

November 24, 2011  ·  Judy Dugan

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Regulators: Everence Insurance Charging Unreasonable Rate Increases

November 22, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> FRANKLIN COUNTY, Tuesday, Nov. 22 - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said that Everence Insurance of Pennsylvania is charging small businesses unreasonably high premium increases according to the first federal rate review under the Affordable Care Act.<br /> <br />

Criminal Probe Into Online Mortgage Scams Widens

November 21, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> SAN FRANCISCO, CA (AP) — A criminal investigation into mortgage swindlers has expanded beyond deceptive advertising on Google's Internet search engine to root out con artists who were luring their victims on Bing and Yahoo, too.</p>

Consumer Watchdog Faces Fierce Fight Over Rate Restriction Proposal

November 18, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> California advocacy group Consumer Watchdog is taking a new approach in the push for tighter regulation of the state's health insurance rates.<br /> <br />

When banks buy insurance for you….Watch out!

November 18, 2011  ·  Doug Heller

<p> <img class=" alignright size-full wp-image-2279" alt="" src="https://consumerwatchdog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/images_dougdrawingname.gif" style="width: 133px; height: 200px; float: right; margin: 4px;" width="133" height="200" />Does your bank charge you extra on your monthly car or mortgage loan payments for insurance that the bank bought? Do you even know if it’s happening?</p> <p> Most people insure their homes and cars, but banks sometimes buy an additional policy without asking the owner, adding the costs to the monthly car or home loan payment.</p>