Litigation In The News
Politico – Call to Investigate Clearview AI
By Alfred Ng, POLITICO
A California consumer advocacy group wants the state’s attorney general and privacy enforcement agency to look into the conduct of Clearview...
Times of San Diego – Proposed 2024 Ballot Measure Would Close Loopholes in California Public Records Act
By JW August, TIMES OF SAN DIEGO
https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2023/11/12/proposed-2024-ballot-measure-would-close-loopholes-in-california-public-records-act/
It was a milestone moment in open government in 1968 when then California Gov. Ronald Reagan signed into...
Law 360 – HIV Patients Can Amend Disability Bias Suit Against CVS
By Emmy Freedman, LAW 360
https://www.law360.com/articles/1705299/hiv-patients-can-amend-disability-bias-suit-against-cvs
Law360 (July 28, 2023, 9:00 PM EDT) -- Patients can revise their claims that CVS Pharmacy Inc.violated the Affordable Care...
KNBC-LA (NBC) – Los Angeles, CA; Consumer Watchdog’s Liza Tucker Speaks of New Concerns With Santa Susana Field Lab Clean Up
Consumer Watchdog's Energy Advocate, Liza Tucker, explains how Boeing's Santa Susana field lab just northeast of Los Angeles poses potential health risks to people nearby.
Law 360 – CVS Wants HIV Patients’ Disability Bias Suit Tossed
By Emmy Freedman, LAW 360
https://www.law360.com/articles/1595196?e_id=4b8eb524-0562-40da-ba7d-4520eae82a00&
CVS urged a California federal judge to toss a proposedclass action accusing it of violating the Affordable Care Act's nondiscrimination...
The San Diego Union Tribune – Consumer Group Appeals Court Loss In Dispute Over State Insurance Records
By Jeff McDonald, THE SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2023-02-28/consumer-watchdog-appeal-insurance-records-lara
The Los Angeles advocacy group that unsuccessfully sued California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and the Department of...
The Los Angeles Times – Californians, Brace for Another Bill Increase: Your Car Insurance
By Ronald D. White, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-02-21/geico-allstate-start-california-car-insurance-rate-increases-more-ahead
Some California drivers will be getting a nasty surprise when they open their car insurance bills this...
Despite Missteps and Open Investigation, State Insurance Chief Appears Headed To Re-Election
Ricardo Lara’s first term was marked by violations of key campaign pledge, other allegations
By Jeff McDonald, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2022-10-09/despite-political-scandals-california-insurance-commissioner-appears-headed-to-re-election
Months into his first term as...
Bloomberg Law – CVS Units Must Face HIV Bias Suit Over Medication Distribution
By Jacklyn Will, BLOOMBERG LAW
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/cvs-units-must-face-hiv-bias-suit-over-medication-distribution
HIV/AIDS patients who object to a CVS Pharmacy Inc. policy limiting where they can receive specialty medications advanced their lawsuit when...
Law 360 – CVS Can’t Escape HIV Patients’ Disability Bias Suit
By Patrick Hoff, LAW 360
https://www.law360.com/health/articles/1518877/cvs-can-t-escape-hiv-patients-disability-bias-suit
CVS Pharmacy can't avoid a proposed class action alleging its prescription drug benefits program discriminates against people with HIV and AIDS, as a California federal judge said...
Suit Seeks Release of CDI Meeting Records In California ‘Pay To Play’ Lawsuit
By Dave LaChance, REPAIRER DRIVEN NEWS
July 18, 2022
https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2022/07/18/suit-seeks-release-of-cdi-meeting-records-in-california-pay-to-play-lawsuit/
A California consumer rights organization is asking a court to order Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s office to...
Editorial: Elect Levine To End Lara’s Insurance Commissioner Scandals
California needs consumer protection, not partying, dining and cozying up with industry lobbyists and executives
By The MERCURY NEWS and EAST BAY TIMES Editorial Boards
April...
Facing Public Records Suit, CA Insurance Chief Drops Plans To Auto Delete Emails
By Jeff McDonald, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
January 30, 2022
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2022-01-30/facing-lawsuit-for-withholding-records-state-insurance-chief-adopts-plan-to-auto-delete-department-tyment-emails
Last year, while California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara promoted his commitment to government transparency and defended a...
Consumer Group Alleges California DOI Hid Open Records Evidence
By Timothy Darragh, BESTWIRE
January 19, 2022
https://news.ambest.com/newscontent.aspx?altsrc=108&refnum=239255
A consumer group is charging new evidence shows the California Department of Insurance has improperly withheld communications with representatives...
Politico Pro – DRUGSTORE DRAMA
By Victoria Colliver, POLITICO PRO
DRUGSTORE DRAMA: CVS dropped its appeal of a California case involving prescription drug policies for HIV patients that was set...
Law 360 – CVS Drops High Court Disability Bias Battle With HIV Patients
By Amanda Ottaway, LAW360
https://www.law360.com/health/articles/1439984/cvs-drops-high-court-disability-bias-battle-with-hiv-patients
Law360 (November 12, 2021, 2:30 PM EST) -- CVS Pharmacy abandoned its U.S. Supreme Court challenge to a proposed class action...
CVS’s Abrupt Dismissal Of SCOTUS Case Was Surprise To Opposing Counsel
By Allison Frankel, REUTERS
November 12, 2021
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/cvss-abrupt-dismissal-scotus-case-was-surprise-opposing-counsel-2021-11-12/
(Reuters) - Public interest lawyer Gerald Flanagan of Consumer Watchdog was deep in preparations for his first-ever U.S. Supreme...
San Francisco Chronicle – CVS Drops Supreme Court Appeal In Bay Area Case That Challenged Prescription Policies
By Bob Egelko, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/CVS-drops-Supreme-Court-appeal-in-Bay-Area-case-16611534.php
Less than a month before the Supreme Court was to hear a Bay Area suit against CVS that could...
Law 360 – US Backs Patients In High Court CVS Disability Bias Case
By Rachel Stone, LAW 360
October 29, 2021
https://www.law360.com/articles/1435636?scroll=1&related=1
Law360 (October 29, 2021, 8:19 PM EDT) -- The U.S. threw its support behind a group of people...
Law 360 – CVS Tells High Court Mailed Prescriptions Not Disability Bias
By Amanda Ottaway, LAW360
September 7, 2021
https://www.law360.com/appellate/articles/1418979/cvs-tells-high-court-mailed-prescriptions-not-disability-bias
Law360 (September 7, 2021, 8:53 PM EDT) -- CVS Pharmacy Inc. told the U.S. Supreme Court that federal law...
POZ – Supreme Court to Hear HIV Case Involving CVS Pharmacy Program
By Trenton Straube, POZ
July 7, 2021
https://www.poz.com/article/supreme-court-hear-hiv-case-involving-cvs-pharmacy-program-discrimination
Can health plans force clients to get HIV meds via mail or at a specific pharmacy in order to...
Law 360 – CVS Persuades Justices To Review HIV Bias Case
By Alexis Shanes, LAW 360
July 2, 2021
https://www.law360.com/retail/articles/1399999/cvs-persuades-justices-to-review-hiv-bias-case
Law360 (July 2, 2021, 2:17 PM EDT) -- The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday it will review the...
San Francisco Chronicle – Supreme Court To Hear Appeal Of S.F. Case That Allowed Some HIV/AIDS Patients To Sure For Discrimination
By Bob Egelko, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
July 2, 2021
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Supreme-Court-to-hear-appeal-of-S-F-case-that-16290630.php
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear an appeal by CVS of a ruling in a...
Insurance Business America – Auto Insurers Raking In Huge Sum At Drivers’ Expense – Report
By Lyle Adriano, INSURANCE BUSINESS AMERICA
June 30, 2021
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/auto-insurers-raking-in-huge-sum-at-drivers-expense--report-259459.aspx
Despite the majority of Californians driving less last year, most auto insurance companies operating in the state...
Bloomberg Law – HIV Bias Suit Against CVS Tests Bounds of Obamacare Protections
By Lydia Wheeler, BLOOMBERG LAW
January 8, 2021
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/hiv-bias-suit-against-cvs-tests-bounds-of-obamacare-protections
Mail-order drug policy at issue in proposed class action
Decision could clarify antidiscrimination protections
Californians with HIV and...