Consumer Watchdog

Business as usual for Hemsley and UnitedHealth is a chronic pattern of abuse and neglect of its policy-holders, along with a powerful political influence-peddling operation that involves costly campaign contributions.

CBS folded and removed the billboard criticizing Mercury Insurance without even a word of warning to its client, my consumer group, Consumer Watchdog.

Independent panels of doctors had been ruling in every autistic child's case that the treatment was medically necessary, so insurers, with the help of the Schwarzenegger administration, changed the rules of the game.