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Spectrum News 1 (San Fernando Valley) – Los Angeles, CA: Fire Insurance Affordability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU6BGRhfuAE&feature=youtu.be
Carmen Balber says homeowners should push state lawmakers to hold insurance companies accountable, so what people can really do aside from shopping around is go to their state lawmakers and say enough is enough.
Healthcare
KGTV-SD (ABC) – San Diego, CA: Doctor Accused of Putting Hidden Camera In A Hospital Restroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZmTx3mhJlY
Consumer Watchdog's Carmen Balber says it shouldn't have taken the medical board almost 3 years to post its case against the doctor.
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KGO-SF (ABC) – San Francisco, CA: Consumer Watchdog and the Insurance Commissioner’s Office Are In A Brawl Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3UAWhrsbtU
Harvey Rosenfield discusses how a big selling point for the Insurance proposal, we were told, was a guarantee that insurance companies would sell more insurance in difficult to insure parts of the state like wildfire areas, but when...
Energy
KABC-LA (ABC) – Los Angeles, CA: Lawmakers Should Work to Prevent Refineries from Selling Expensive Summer Blend of Gas Overseas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syWGlpRlKiU
Jamie Court says they're shipping our gas to guatemala and el salvador, where they don't need our environmentally sensitive fuel. When they do that, it drives up the gas available for California and they charge more if there's less gas here.
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KNBC-LA (NBC) – Los Angeles, CAL: CA To Consider New Rules For Property Insurance Pricing
Jamie Court of Consumer Watchdog says the new rules aren't necessary. Records show California is already more profitable for insurers than many states.
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KPIX-SF (CBS) – San Francisco, CA: Insurance Overhaul
Insurance companies for the first time will be allowed to factor in the future risks of extreme weather and wildfires into the rates, that means your insurance rate is probably going up. Officials are willing to make us pay the insurance industry's ransom.
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NBC Nightly News: Climate Change Driving Up Home Insurance
Harvey Rosenfield says the insurance companies are using climate change as an excuse to make changes in rules that have saved Californians hundreds of billions of dollars in the last 35 years.
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KCAL-LA – Los Angeles, CA: Insurance for High Risk Areas
New insurance deal will mean that California homeowners pay hundreds or possibly thousands of dollars more every year for homeowners insurance.
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KTLA-LA (CW) – Los Angeles, CA: Insurance Companies Offering Coverage In CA Fire Zones Again
Consumer watchdog says the deal could lead to extremely high increases in people's insurance bills.
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KXTV-SAC (ABC) – Sacramento, CA: Changes Coming to Home Insurance Market
Consumer Watchdog opposes the governor's executive order saying there are other ways to address the impact of climate change that we have outlined and can be worked out in the legislature. It cannot be solved unilaterally by bowing to the industry's self-serving demands and its threat that they will leave the state.
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