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Featured

Consumer Watchdog Saves Policyholders Over $325 Million from State Farm Auto Rate Hike; Dispute Erupts Between Commissioner Lara and Chief Administrative Law Judge Who Finds Department of Insurance Is Not Ensuring Rate Cases Are “Fundamentally Fair” 

Ryan Mellino December 11, 2024

As a result of Consumer Watchdog’s intervention, State Farm agreed to a lower rate increase of 17.7% compared to its initial 23.4% request

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Featured

Insurance Commissioner Finalizes Plan Allowing Secret Algorithms to Raise Home Insurance Rates; Lies About Making Insurers Sell More Coverage in Return

Carmen Balber November 14, 2024

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is not being honest with Californians about making insurance companies using secret algorithms to hike rates.

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Energy

New Minimum Gasoline Reserve Law Will Prevent CA Gasoline Prices Spikes And Should Be A Bellwether For Nation, Consumer Watchdog Says

Jamie Court October 14, 2024

Consumer Watchdog hailed Governor Newsom’s signing of California’s new gasoline minimum inventory law in the fight against California gas spikes.

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Energy

Newsom’s Signature On Three Laws To Hold Oil Drillers Accountable Will Protect LA Residents From the Toxic Harms Of Drilling

Jamie Court September 25, 2024

Surrounded by wells in the Inglewood Oil field, Governor Newsom signed legislation to shut down 600 oil wells

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Insurance

Homeowners Dropped by Insurers And Facing Massive Rate Hikes Speak Out;  Consumer Watchdogs Say Lara Lied About Expanding Wildfire Coverage In Exchange For Higher Rates

Carmen Balber September 17, 2024

Los Angeles, CA — Homeowners who were dropped by their insurance company and confronted with massive rate hikes spoke out at an Assembly Insurance Committee...

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News Releases

Report Shows That Less Than 1% of Californians Exercise Privacy Rights with Data Brokers

Justin Kloczko September 12, 2024

Data Brokers Collect Your Location, Share It With Companies and Law Enforcement.

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Energy

Three Bills To Hold Oil Drillers Accountable and Make “Polluters Pay” Pass Legislature and Go To Governor’s Desk

Jamie Court September 1, 2024

Sacramento, CA – In the last hours of the California legislative session, critical legislation holding oil drillers accountable for their pollution passed the California legislature and...

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News Releases

Report Shows How Loophole in Privacy Law Makes Opting Out of Facebook Data Sharing Difficult; Global Opt Out Law Needed

Justin Kloczko July 31, 2024

Facebook alone gets data from thousands of companies, and opting out is annoying.

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Insurance

Bailout: Insurance Commissioner Would Force Homeowners to Pay for FAIR Plan Losses 

Carmen Balber July 26, 2024

Los Angeles, CA — Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara today proposed a multi-billion dollar policyholder bailout of the insurance industry for its exposure to wildfire losses at the...

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In The Courtroom

Proposition 34 is a Threat to Our Health & Democracy, Consumer Watchdog Tells the California Supreme Court

Jerry Flanagan July 16, 2024

Los Angeles, CA – Proposition 34, currently scheduled to appear on the November 2024 ballot targeting the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (“AHF”), violates the California and...

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Insurance

Consumer Groups Warn Lawmakers: Governor’s Insurance Bill Will Cost Californians Billions

Carmen Balber June 6, 2024

Sacramento, CA — Six consumer organizations warned state Senate and Assembly leaders that a budget trailer bill proposed by the governor would cut the public...

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Insurance

Governor’s Proposal Targets Prop 103’s Public Rate Review that has Saved Homeowners, Drivers, Doctors $6 Billion on Insurance

Carmen Balber May 29, 2024

A proposal by Gov Newsom would undercut independent public scrutiny of insurance rate increases and jeopardize Californians

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