Tag: News Release

AG’s Lawsuit Shows That PG&E Can Bail Itself Out

Consumer Watchdog January 10, 2002

Bankruptcy Court, PUC Should Require PG&E Parent Company -- Not Customers - To Pay Off Corporate Debt

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California PUC Proposes Bailout of PG&E

Consumer Watchdog January 8, 2002

State Plan Would Be Offered as Alternative to PG&E's Maligned Re-organization Plan

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State Audit Says Energy Contracts Are Terrible, State Rushed Into Bad Deals

Consumer Watchdog December 20, 2001

Public Audit Confirms Urgency of Renegotiating Ten-Year Power Contracts

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Letter To Governor: Kaiser Campaign Cash Should Not Buy State Financing of HMO Facility

Consumer Watchdog December 20, 2001

Kaiser Campaign Cash Should Not Be Perceived To Have Bought State Bonds

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Edison Customers Should Not Face Another Rate Increase

Consumer Watchdog December 18, 2001

Consumers Are Not Edison's ATM Machine

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Majority of Employers Surveyed Support Universal Health Care, Discontented; Blame HMOs & Insurance Companies Most for Problems in Current System

Consumer Watchdog December 17, 2001

More Than Two Thirds Report Bureaucracy of Health Care System Worsening

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Kaiser Fails In Bid To Harass HMO Czar & Derail $1.1 Million Fine Against It

Consumer Watchdog December 10, 2001

Federal court Judge Ronald Lew ruled today that California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) Director Daniel Zingale was not in contempt of court for using evidence of a MedicarePlusChoice's patients' death in holding Kaiser…

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Kaiser Demands That Oakland Hearings Not Be Tape Recorded

Jamie Court December 6, 2001

Judge Says Public Cannot Record Hearing

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Kaiser Contests State Authority To Regulate It

Consumer Watchdog December 5, 2001

Claims Not To Dispute Facts In Patients' Death, Just Any Obligation Under State Law n yesterday's administrative hearing in Oakland regarding a $1.1 million fine issued by the State, lawyers for Kaiser, the state's largest…

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Lesson of Enron: Electricity Deregulation is a Disaster

Consumer Watchdog December 3, 2001

Enron Was Done in By Its Own Greed; California, Nation Should Put a Halt to Energy Deregulation

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Consumer Group Calls for Freeze on Insurance Rate Hikes

Consumer Watchdog November 29, 2001

Department of Insurance Must Set Rules to Protect Consumers With a spate of insurers demanding rate increases, a consumer group called on California Insurance Commissioner Harry Low to issue a moratorium on all rate hikes-at…

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10 Year Christmas for Energy Companies

Consumer Watchdog November 23, 2001

Governor Davis Must Renegotiate Power Contracts, PUC Must Retroactively Ban "Direct Access" to Save $4 Billion Wasted on Energy Surplus

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