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Commissioner Lara Proposes Minimal Oversight, Secrecy of Black-Box Wildfire Insurance Models

Proposed Regulation Will Raise Rates but Will Not Stop Home Insurance Companies’ Market Boycott, Says Consumer Watchdog Los Angeles, CA – Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s proposal to let insurance companies use...

Two Bills Holding Community Oil Drillers Accountable Advance To Appropriations Committee

Sacramento, CA—Assembly Bill 3155 (Friedman), which creates new financial liability for oil producers for harm from community oil drilling, cleared its second policy committee today and now moves to...

Federal Court Rules Plaintiffs Adequately Alleged CVS Acted With “Deliberate Indifference” When It Adopted Rx Program That Discriminates Against People Living With HIV

Los Angeles, CA – Late yesterday the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that four HIV-positive “John Doe” plaintiffs adequately alleged CVS acted intentionally under...

Federal Prosecutors Ordered to Unseal FBI Warrants Related to L.A. City Attorney’s Office and DWP Corruption

Names of Public Officials Including Former City Attorney Mike Feuer Will Not Be Redacted, Nor Will Statements by an FBI Agent that Feuer Lied to the Grand Jury This morning...

Two Barrels of Oil Per Day Is All Drillers Extract from Community Wells, Making Case For New Law For $10K Per Day Fine

Sacramento, CA -- Oil companies drilling for oil within a half mile of community residents produce a tiny trickle of oil—2.1 barrels of oil per day per well on...

Consumers Who Harden Homes to Reduce Wildfire Risk Must Have a Right to Buy  Insurance, Consumer Watchdog to Testify before Little Hoover Commission

Sacramento, CA – California must require insurance companies to sell home insurance to homeowners who protect their homes from wildfire in order to restore consumers’ access to affordable coverage, Consumer...

Government Prosecutors Seek to Protect the “Privacy” of City Officials Entangled in Web of Corruption Related to DWP Billing Scandal

Los Angeles, CA – While broadly supporting public disclosure, the United States Attorneys’ Office is seeking to redact the names of former City Attorney Mike Feuer and other City...

Bill Introduced to Charge Low-Producing Oil Wells in Community Setback Zones $10K Per Day 

Los Angeles, CA— Assemblymember Isaac G. Bryan (D-55, Los Angeles) introduced legislation today to charge $10,000 per day to oil wells producing less than 15 barrels per day within...

20+ Groups Decry CA Oil Refiners’ Average $1 Per Gallon Profit Margin In 2023, Call On CEC To Implement Price Gouging Penalty By Summer...

Sacramento, CA --  More than twenty public interest groups pointed to new state data showing that California oil refiners averaged more than $1 per gallon in gross profits during 2023...

Consumer Watchdog and the Los Angeles Times Petition Federal Court to Release FBI Warrants Related to LA City Attorney and LA DWP Corruption 

 Los Angeles, CA -- Yesterday afternoon the non-profit Consumer Watchdog and the Los Angeles Times petitioned a federal court in Los Angeles to release 33 FBI warrants and related documents that...

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