Tag: News Release
State Agency Rejects Call For Utility Rollback
Advocates Will Ask For Special Session Of Legislature In the midst of a state-wide energy crisis, and after hearing from consumer advocates and elected officials representing beleaguered San Diego ratepayers, the Public Utility Commission today…
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Consumer Groups, Quake Survivors Call on Legislators to Enact California Insurance Policyholder Bill of Rights
Senator Escutia Agrees to Author Legislation
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Comments of FTCR on Insurance Commissioner Appointment
Utility Crisis in San Diego Will Spread to Entire State, Consumer Groups Demand Repeal of 1996 Deregulation Law
Emergency Measures Offered, Including Rate Rollback
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CA Department of Managed Care Urged To Secure Restraining Order Against UnitedHealth’s Patient Sale
he Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights urges the Department to seek a restraining order precluding UnitedHealth Group from selling its patients to Blue Shield. Such a sale would violate the terms of the Knox…
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New Report Uncovers Secret Campaign by Big Tobacco and Other Industries to Restrict Legal Rights
"Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse" Groups Linked to National Network Funded by Major Tobacco and Corporate Money So-called "lawsuit abuse" groups throughout the country are part of a national, corporate-backed network of front groups that receive…
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Ratepayer Revolt: Former San Diego Mayor Joins FTCR Demanding Price Freeze and Repeal of Deregulation
Legislative Leaders Agree
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State Receives 3,300 Calls About Lifeline Auto Insurance; Over 100 Low-Income Motorists Sign Up in First Two Weeks
Reports That Agents Have Snubbed Consumers Alarms Advocates
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President Asked to End Practice of Patient Dumping by Medicare HMOs;
Group Calls For Executive Order Implementing "All Or Nothing Policy" The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) wrote President Clinton today asking him to issue an Executive Order stating that an HMO must abandon…
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United Healthcare Should Not Turn California Patients Over To Blue Shield
State Regulators Must Step In And Stop Bait & Switch Deal
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Largest National Provider of Court Reporting Services Threatens To Sue Consumer Group for Disclosing Secret Deals
Group Sees Threat as an Attempt to Stifle Debate on an Important Civil Justice Issue The nation's largest court reporting company has threatened to sue a California consumer watchdog group over a white paper by…
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