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5/22/2012
Posted by Laura Antonini
California drivers: have you heard of the Low Cost Automobile Insurance Program? If you have a minimum liability auto insurance policy (15/30/15) and this doesn’t sound familiar, then your insurance agent or broker may have violated the law.
California's Low Cost Auto Insurance Program gives low-income motorists with good...
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News Story
1/8/2012
Posted by Mark Reback
Looking for a competitive edge over other car insurance companies, Allstate is promising that if you buy a policy and are not satisfied with your claims service, you'll get a refund.
Under the money-back claims satisfaction guarantee, eligible customers who are dissatisfied with the service on a paid auto claim can receive a credit to...
News Release
7/22/2011
Posted by Mark Reback
Santa Monica, CA – Starting next month, GEICO will begin implementing a 10.7% overall rate decrease for its California automobile insurance policyholders. GEICO originally asked the California Department of Insurance (CDI) for a 4% increase to its automobile insurance rates, but the nonprofit Consumer Watchdog challenged the hike....
News Story
7/21/2011
Posted by Mark Reback
As if college isn't expensive enough, many schools are pushing parents to buy insurance that will pay their tuition for the remainder of a term if a student is forced to drop out because of a serious accident or medical illness or dies.
Tuition refund or reimbursement policies are sold by private insurance companies, but some schools -...
Blog Post
7/6/2011
Posted by Jamie Court
The much-awaited California Senate Health Committee showdown today over health insurance premium regulation never happened. Instead, Senate Health Committee Chair Ed Hernandez, who had the pivotal vote, moved Assembly Bill 52 forward with the promise that his vote on the Senate Floor was contingent on amendments to come that address his concerns...
News Release
6/28/2011
Posted by Jamie Court
Santa Monica, CA -- More than 1,500,000 Californians will face health insurance premium increases on July 1 averaging 3% to 17.4%, according to state filings. Some patients with Aetna small business plans will see premium increases as high as 92.5%. California insurance regulators need the power to protect consumers and deny such steep rate...
News Story
6/20/2011
Posted by Mark Reback
Twenty-three years ago, California voters decided the state should have more control over the insurance industry. Proposition 103, approved by a thin margin (51%) in 1988, increased the Department of Insurance's clout in a number of areas -- most notably automobile insurance -- and changed the status of the California insurance commissioner...
News Release
4/27/2011
Posted by Doug Heller
Santa Monica, CA – Insurance giant Wellpoint, parent company of California's Anthem Blue Cross, announced today that its first quarter profits rose 6% this year to nearly $1 billion for the first three months of 2011. At the same time, consumer advocates are pressing for reforms that would limit health insurance rate increases in the...
News Story
4/14/2011
Posted by Mark Reback
Sutter Health, one of California's largest health care givers, fraudulently charged insurers up to hundreds of millions of dollars over the past decade for anesthesia services that in some cases weren't even provided, the state's insurance commissioner said Wednesday.
"This is happening across all Sutter hospitals,"...
News Story
4/14/2011
Posted by Mark Reback
Health insurance agents and brokers who are lobbying to be excluded from a healthcare reform provision gave lawmakers more than $3.18 million in the 2010 election cycle, Consumer Watchdog said Thursday.
The announcement comes as more than 1,000 agents and brokers are on Capitol Hill to lobby for bipartisan legislation that would exclude agent...
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