Refineries’ Profit Surge Comes On Top of Record Profits Reaped From High Oil Prices; Group Asks, “Where’s the White House? Where’s Congress?” Santa Monica, CA -- At the accelerating rate...
Documents Show Consumers Need Better Regulation of Insurance Industry; California Rate Cut Shows the Way Santa Monica, CA -- Allstate, the nation’s second-largest insurance company, has released 150,000...
Unanimous Vote Comes After Consumer Watchdog Testimony in Support Of Bill Sacramento, CA -- The California Senate Health Committee today unanimously approved a bill in the California Senate intended to reform the...
Sacramento, CA -- In testimony to be delivered today before the Senate Health Committee, Consumer Watchdog (formerly The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights) backed a bill in the California Senate intended to reform the…
Group Calls for Passage of Stalled Renewable Energy Bill, Oversight of Trading Markets Gasoline pumps prices rose to yet another record today and over the weekend, both nationally and in at least 17 states (chart...
Health Care Regulators Accused in Hearing of "Glacial Pace" In Stopping Post-Claim Rescissions, Failing to Restore Coverage to Victims California’s Department of Managed Health Care...
Redesigned Website Is Public Forum For Dialogue On Consumer Rights Santa Monica, CA -- The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) has changed its name to Consumer Watchdog. The group, which was...
Insurance Commissioner Orders Allstate to Lower Rates by 15.9% Under Prop. 103 Santa Monica, CA -- California drivers with Allstate auto insurance will save a quarter-billion dollars under an order issued by...
California's Record Pump Price is $3.634, Usual Leader Hawaii Drops to $3.62 -- Group Praises Hawaii Effort to Expose Profits Santa Monica, CA -- In a reversal of the usual gasoline price pattern, the isolated…
AT&T's Ban on Class Actions is Unlawful, Customers Argue Santa Monica, CA -- Cell phone customers who sued AT&T and Cingular over abuses in the companies’ 2004 merger are asking a federal court in Seattl...
Santa Monica, CA -- The insurance affiliate of the Automobile Club of Southern California (the Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club) will issue $22.5 million in refunds to approximately 120,000 policyholders to resolve lawsuits brought...
