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News Release
5/18/2012
Posted by Jamie Court
CONTACT: Jamie Court, 310-874-9989; or Harvey Rosenfield, 310-392-0522 x303
Los Angeles, CA -- Patients who have suffered skyrocketing health insurance rates joined with the leaders of Consumer Watchdog Campaign to turn in more than 800,000 voter...
News Release
4/23/2012
Posted by Jamie Court
WASHINGTON DC -- Google continues to pump record amounts into its effort to influence federal legislators and policymakers, spending $5.03 million on lobbying in the first quarter of 2012, a 240 percent increase from the same quarter a year ago, according to new...
News Release
4/5/2012
Posted by Jamie Court
Santa Monica, CA – The California Department of Insurance has announced that Aetna is imposing an 8% annual health insurance rate hike on its small business customers despite state actuaries’ findings that the increase is “unreasonable” and...
News Release
2/8/2012
Posted by Jamie Court
CONSUMER WATCHDOG CAMPAIGN NEWS RELEASE: San Francisco, CA -- Blue Shield has $3.1 billion in excess surplus, 1400% more than the state requires, but still plans to raise rates on more than 200,000 policyholders by as much as 14.9%, said Blue Shield policyholders and...
Blog Post
2/7/2012
Posted by Jamie Court
Shouldn't the CEOs of health insurance companies like Blue Shield have to sign under penalty of perjury that their rate hikes are justified? If the first online signature gathering for a ballot petition is successful, Californians will vote on that proposition in...
News Release
2/4/2012
Posted by Jamie Court
Santa Monica, CA -- Hyundai has confirmed to Consumer Watchdog that it will not include its "40 Mile Per Gallon" claim about the Elantra in its Super Bowl advertisement weeks after the consumer group called for a cessation of such advertising. Hyundai...
News Release
2/2/2012
Posted by Jamie Court
Santa Monica, CA – Patients facing skyrocketing health insurance premiums, including one who is now uninsured due to rising prices, joined consumer advocates today to launch an historic all-volunteer signature-gathering effort to qualify an initiative measure...
Blog Post
2/2/2012
Posted by Jamie Court
We are doing it! Today we launched our ballot initiative drive to force health insurance companies to publicly justify their rates and get permission for rate hikes.
If you are a registered voter in California, your signature today can stop outrageous health...
Blog Post
1/23/2012
Posted by Jamie Court
It’s been a big day for those of us who have been making the case that Google steers users not to the most relevant products and services, but to its own services. This morning in Brussels, Consumer Watchdog called upon European privacy officials to...
Blog Post
1/2/2012
Posted by Jamie Court
Congress has shut down President Obama’s financial consumer watchdog agency by refusing to confirm its director. Our Consumer Watchdog has a lot of powerful enemies too and they are trying to put us out of business.
Our determined advocacy has made us...