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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...

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...

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...

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...

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