Consumer Watchdog urged Assembly member Autumn Burke (D-Los Angeles) to withdraw legislation backed by State Farm Insurance because it “will irreparably harm policyholders who seek to repair their vehicles financially and, potentially, cost many consumers their safety, and even their lives.”
Nonprofit Saves Public $3.4 Billion Over Last 15 Years But Sees Insurance Industry Attack
Consumer Watchdog’s challenges filed under Proposition 103 to proposed auto, home and business insurance rate increases saved consumers $227.4 million in 2017, the nonprofit, nonpartisan public interest group said today.
Since 2003, the group’s challenges in rate proceedings before the Department of Insurance have saved consumers a total of $3.4 billion. Savings have averaged a little more than a quarter of a billion dollars – $227 million – per year.
Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court talks with radio host Norman Goldman about how oil companies are gouging Californians at the pump by deliberately keeping supply low to keep prices artificially high, and how Consumer Watchdog plans to stop it: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/resources/podcast_8-27-15.m4a