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Jun 02, 2023, 14:06 ET California Senate Passes Bill To Strengthen Medical Board Oversight of Doctors, Says Consumer Watchdog

Legislation to improve physician oversight and give consumers rights at the Medical Board of California was approved by the state Senate 32-1 this...

May 30, 2023, 14:53 ET Insurance Commissioner Lara Must Use Prop 103 Authority to Reverse State Farm's Pullback, Says Consumer Watchdog

State Farm's announcement on Friday that it would immediately stop selling homeowners insurance to new customers in California is unlawful under...

May 18, 2023, 17:17 ET Medical Board Reform Bill Moves Ahead to Full Senate Public Control, Mandatory Patient Interview, Among Bill's Consumer Protections, says Consumer Watchdog

Legislation to strengthen consumer protections and improve physician oversight at the Medical Board of California passed out of the Senate...

May 18, 2023, 16:40 ET Senator Portantino Stops Bill To Hold Oil Drillers Liable For Health Impacts On Community In Undemocratic Use of Unilateral Power To Hold Bills In Committee, Says Consumer Watchdog

SB 556, legislation that gives people who live near oil wells and have developed cancer, respiratory illnesses and birth defects the right to hold...

May 10, 2023, 12:00 ET Author of Insurance Reform Prop 103 Says Its Protections Critical to Stopping Insurance Industry's Unjustified Rate Increases and Nonrenewals for Residential Coverage

Thirty-five years after California voters passed Proposition 103 to protect themselves against skyrocketing insurance rates, insurance companies'...

May 08, 2023, 20:54 ET Patient Advocates Join Kern County Board of Supervisors to Proclaim May 2023 as Latina Maternal Health Awareness Month and Continue to Fight for Physician Accountability, Reports Consumer Watchdog

Supervisor Leticia Perez and the Kern County Board of Supervisors will proclaim May 2023 to be Latina Maternal Health Awareness Month at their May...

Apr 26, 2023, 14:13 ET Bill To Hold Oil Companies Presumptively Liable for Harms in Safety Zones Passes First Hurdle in the California Senate, Says Consumer Watchdog

SB 556 — legislation that gives people who live near oil wells and have developed cancer, respiratory illnesses and birth defects the right to hold...

Apr 24, 2023, 15:25 ET Medical Board Bill Needs Additional Patient Rights to Mandate Disclosure and Participation, Yet Includes Provisions That Will Strengthen Doctor Accountability, Says Consumer Watchdog

Proposed legislation would enact important changes to hold dangerous doctors more accountable in California, but excludes crucial reforms that will...

Apr 19, 2023, 12:00 ET New Watchdog Report Lays Out Checklist For CalRecycle To Make Bottle Deposit Refunds Easy As Buying The Beverages

Consumer Watchdog released a report today outlining what CalRecycle, the state's recycling regulator, should do beginning at its public workshop on...

Apr 18, 2023, 13:41 ET Bill to Hold Oil Drillers Presumptively Liable For Harms in Drilling Safety Zones Garners Support of 130+ Group Coalition Including Consumer Watchdog, That Powered Through Gasoline Price Gouging Penalty Bill

New legislation gives people who have developed cancer, respiratory illnesses and birth defects the right to hold oil drillers liable for their...

Apr 13, 2023, 15:21 ET Public Interest Groups, Including Consumer Watchdog, Take On Newsom Administration Over Backtracking On Cleanup Of Radioactivity At Santa Susana Site, Case To Be Heard On Monday

In an appeal before the Court of Appeal in Sacramento to be heard on Monday, the Newsom Administration will be challenged over positions that breach...

Apr 12, 2023, 17:05 ET 1st Q Oil Permits Within 3,200-Foot Setback Zone Total 62% Of All New Permits Approved In State Action Condemned By Advocates, Consumer Watchdog Reports

The total number of oil drilling permits approved since Governor Gavin Newsom he took office reached nearly 15,000 in the first quarter of 2023,...

Apr 11, 2023, 13:46 ET San Diego Doctor Charged with Murder In Patient's Death Shows Failure Of California's Doctor Discipline, Patient Disclosure Laws, says Consumer Watchdog

Patients in California are exposed to harm by dangerous doctors because California law does not quickly discipline or require them to disclose...

Mar 29, 2023, 14:16 ET How New CA Privacy Regulations Can Be Drawn to Stop Biased Algorithms

Today Consumer Watchdog released a report spotlighting the profiling flaws of algorithms and submitted a letter this week to the state privacy agency ...

Mar 27, 2023, 18:53 ET Consumer Watchdog Reports: Price Gouging Penalty and Oil Refiner Accountability Bill To Become Law

Legislation backed by Governor Newsom to create a new state watchdog with power to prevent price gouging at the gas pump cleared the California...

Mar 23, 2023, 14:31 ET Consumer Watchdog Reports: CA Senate Passes Gasoline Price Gouging Penalty And Oil Refinery Transparency Bill, Goes to Assembly

A landmark measure to rein in skyrocketing California gasoline prices has cleared the California Senate by a vote of 30 to 8. "This bill puts a...

Mar 23, 2023, 11:00 ET Consumer Watchdog Report: Commissioner Lara Approves Over $1 Billion in Unjustified Auto Insurance Rate Hikes

Insurance Commissioner Lara's approval last week of a $263.7 million rate hike by California's largest insurer, State Farm, marks the latest in a...

Mar 22, 2023, 20:04 ET Price gouging Penalty Passes First Hurdle; Consumer Watchdog Testifies In Assembly About Need for Penalty and Transparency Reforms, $590 Million Oil Exec Stock Grab

SBx1 2, the newly amended proposal for a price gouging penalty and oil refiner transparency, passed its first test in the California Senate...

Mar 20, 2023, 15:22 ET Consumer Watchdog Reports: Gov and Legislature Strike Deal on Price Gouging Penalty, Oil Refiner Transparency; CA To Be First State In US To Rein In Refiner Profiteering

Governor Newsom and California legislature leaders have reached a deal to push through a new oil refiner accountability law including a price gouging ...

Mar 16, 2023, 12:00 ET Consumer Watchdog Reports: Initial Report of Medical Board Enforcement Monitor Confirms Investigation Delays and Failure to Discipline Doctors

Initial findings of the Medical Board Enforcement Monitor, released this week, confirm that the Medical Board's investigations of doctors are...

Mar 15, 2023, 11:00 ET Executives And Insiders At CA Big 5 Refiners Cashed Out $590 Million In Company Stock During 2022 In Wartime Profiteering, Says Consumer Watchdog

Top executives and insiders at California's big five oil refiners cashed out $590 million in stock in 2022, according to a review of filings with...

Feb 27, 2023, 14:32 ET CA Dept. of Insurance Failed to Search For Records Linked To Government Corruption Scandal, According to Consumer Watchdog Appeal

The non-profit Consumer Watchdog has filed an appeal in its California Public Records Act ("PRA") lawsuit against Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara ...

Feb 22, 2023, 15:43 ET Consumer Watchdog Reports: Rate Challenge Under Proposition 103 Blocks Medical Insurance Exchange of California's Medical Malpractice Rate Hike Proposal; Doctors & Providers Save Over $2.8 Million

In response to Consumer Watchdog's challenge to Medical Insurance Exchange of California's ("MIEC") proposed rate increase on doctors' and medical...

Feb 22, 2023, 15:13 ET Consumer Watchdog Testifies For Windfall Profits Cap At CA Senate Energy Committee

Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court will offer testimony in favor of enacting a price gouging penalty and windfall profits cap on oil refiners at ...

Feb 16, 2023, 13:35 ET Consumer Watchdog Reports: PBF Energy, Last of California's Big Five Refiners To Report 2022 Results, Finishes Parade Of Windfall Profits In California

PBF Energy today posted an annual profit of $2.9 billion. The five refiners controlling California's gasoline market -- PBF Energy, Chevron, Marathon ...