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103 exposes costs lower than insurers claim

Our legal team was in San Francisco this week fighting another unjustified insurance rate hike - this time a 6% earthquake insurance rate increase...

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Battling Insurance Commissioners

Insurance Commissioner Poizner has issued supposedly "emergency" regulations that would change new rules protecting consumers.

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Insurance committee gives two to the industry

 
Consumers could use a friend on the Assembly Insurance Committee. I testified against two bills the committee passed this morning that will cause consumers to pay more for their auto insurance and violate voter-approved Proposition 103...

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Guns & Guts Save CA Motorists 62 Billion Bucks

I remember now why I hired armed guards to protect the voter signatures that put insurance reform Proposition 103 on the ballot twenty years ago. ...

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$62 billion saved thanks to Prop 103

I'm going to happy hour tonight, and the whole office is coming with me. It's a rare occurrence that anyone around here leaves the office before 5pm, let alone all of us at the same time. But we've got reason to celebrate...

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Insurance agents, brokers pad Schwarzenegger campaign chest

Governor Schwarzenegger's ballot measure committee just reported receiving 10 grand from the Insurance Brokers and Agents Issues PAC. Here's the contribution:

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Allstate's 'good hands' groping around in your pocket

Allstate made a surprise decision to release internal documents about claims handling procedures that they've been fighting to keep secret in court for over a decade. The documents...

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Medical Middlemen's Hands Are Out

A pair of adjacent stories on health care costs in today's New York Times illustrate the big potholes in privatizing health reform. They also point to some better paths. One article was on "huge variations" in end-of-life medical costs. More on that later. The other, by Reed Abelson, scrutinized a seemingly failed Medicare experiment in reducing diabetes treatment costs through intense case management. So far, it's been a wash at best. But the figure that struck me was the "as much as $2,000 a year" per patient that Medicare paid to private contractors to manage the cases.

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Paulson's plan to deregulate insurance companies

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s proposal for a newly created federal insurance regulator, and the...

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Quarter Billion Price Cut for Allstate Customers in California

Here's good financial news for folks at a time when it seems like the economic sky is falling: Allstate has to lower its auto insurance rates by about $250 million in California, in order to comply with the 1988 insurance reform...

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Schwarzenegger Administration Should Reject Phony Emergency Declared by Insurance Commissioner Poizner to Help Insurers

CONTACT: Doug Heller ,(310) 392-0522 ext. 309; or Harvey Rosenfield, ext. 304
May 13, 2008

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Examining 'Emergency' Insurance Regulations

By Dean Calbreath, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
May 4, 2008

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Consumer Advocates Warn Against Auto Insurance Proposals

By Edwin Garcia, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS (CA)
May 1, 2008

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New State Rules on Insurance Criticized

By Martin Zimmerman, LOS ANGELES TIMES
May 1, 2008

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Consumer Group Warns of Higher Insurance Rates in Calif.

By Steve Lawrence, ASSOCIATED PRESS
May 1, 2008

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Recent Posts in Affordable Car & Home Insurance:

103 exposes costs lower than insurers claim

Our legal team was in San Francisco this week fighting another unjustified insurance rate hike - this time a 6% earthquake insurance rate increase...

Read More »

Battling Insurance Commissioners

Insurance Commissioner Poizner has issued supposedly "emergency" regulations that would change new rules protecting consumers.

Read More »

Insurance committee gives two to the industry

 
Consumers could use a friend on the Assembly Insurance Committee. I testified against two bills the committee passed this morning that will cause consumers to pay more for their auto insurance and violate voter-approved Proposition 103...

Read More »

Guns & Guts Save CA Motorists 62 Billion Bucks

I remember now why I hired armed guards to protect the voter signatures that put insurance reform Proposition 103 on the ballot twenty years ago. ...

Read More »

$62 billion saved thanks to Prop 103

I'm going to happy hour tonight, and the whole office is coming with me. It's a rare occurrence that anyone around here leaves the office before 5pm, let alone all of us at the same time. But we've got reason to celebrate...

Read More »

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