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

 
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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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.

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

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...