LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Following today’s meeting with California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, State Farm General Insurance (SFG), and the California Department of Insurance (CDI), Consumer Watchdog reiterated its opposition to State […]
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Consumer Watchdog Alert Shows Need to Pass New Bill on Surveillance Pricing
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Today Consumer Watchdog released a Consumer Alert video addressing the practice of surveillance price gouging and called on the California state legislature to ban the practice by passing AB 446. Surveillance pricing […]
Groups Petition CalRecycle To Stop Overpaying Haulers For Contaminated Material, Says Consumer Watchdog
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Consumer Watchdog and the Container Recycling Institute have petitioned the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) to take regulatory action to address the significant overpayment to curbside […]
New Minimum Gasoline Reserve Law Will Prevent CA Gasoline Prices Spikes And Should Be A Bellwether For Nation, Consumer Watchdog Says
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Consumer Watchdog hailed Governor Newsom’s signing today of California’s new gasoline minimum inventory law, ABX2-1, as a pivotal moment in the fight against California gas spikes and called […]
Loopholes Still Free Insurers From Promises to Sell More Coverage; Public Calls for Model Transparency, Accountability Go Unanswered, says Consumer Watchdog
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Consumer Watchdog said today’s amendments to Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s regulations that let insurance companies hike rates based on secret algorithms related to climate models still do not expand […]