Analyst Predicts Over $4 a Gallon Nationally, Up To $5 in California Conoco Phillips’ CEO all but apologized for his company’s 1st quarter profits today, even though the $3.29 billion total...
Santa Monica, CA -- California has the best automobile insurance regulation in the nation, with the slowest-growing premiums and one of the most competitive markets in the country, according to a state-by-state study the Consumer...
Santa Monica, CA -- In the wake of last week's announcement by Governor Schwarzenegger and state regulators that health insurers would be required to reinstate 26 patients whose health policies were wrongfully cancelled, Consumer...
Consumers, Economy Are Buckling Under Gasoline and Diesel Price Records As Government Stays Mum The 16-cent national rise in gasoline prices over two weeks, to more than $3.50 a gallon on average, is busting family...
Cautions That All Health Costs During Gap Must be Covered Santa Monica, CA -- Consumer Watchdog today praised a California state regulator’s efforts to begin reinstating the insurance coverage of patients left...
Urges State HMO Regulator To Do Same Santa Monica, CA -- Consumer Watchdog today joined L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo in announcing the city's lawsuit alleging that health insurer Blue Cross engaged in unfair...
Consumer Watchdog Renews Call for Bush to Stop Buying Oil for U.S. Reserve, Release Oil to Dampen Price Santa Monica, CA -- As oil prices topped $115 a barrel today on futures markets, President Bush…
Agency Claimed State Funding Led to Important Clinical Trials Santa Monica, CA -- California’s stem cell agency overstated and hyped the importance of its funding in enabling clinical trials for a drug to treat...
Insurance Commissioner Ordered Allstate to Lower Rates by 15.9% Under Prop. 103 Santa Monica, CA – Consumer advocates argue today before a San Francisco Superior Court that the $250 million auto...
Santa Monica, CA -- Consumer Watchdog petitioned the state Department of Managed Health Care to announce within 10 days its plans regarding hundreds of patients who have been left uninsured, unisurable, and hundreds of thousands…
Group Asks President to Deflate Oil Markets With Immediate Releases From Strategic Reserve Santa Monica, CA -- As gasoline and diesel prices reached another daily record price today, Consumer Watchdog asked...
Since 2006 Senator Calderon, Sponsor of Bill Allowing Invasions of Medical Privacy, Received $21,690 from Drug Companies and Pharmacies Santa Monica,CA -- Breaches of medical privacy at UCLA Medical Center...