Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court is joined by medical negligence survivor Scott Olsen, who is the proponent of a ballot measure to lift California’s 45 year old cap on medical malpractice damages. Olsen’s son was permanently disabled. 980,000 signatures are being turned in to put the initiative before voters.

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Medical Negligence Initiative Goes To The California Voters

Carmen Balber is joined by Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court to discuss Gavin Newsom's growing problems with the oil and gas industry.

Newsoms Oil Problem

Carmen Balber is joined by CW Sacramento counsel Mike Mattoch to talk about what’s changed, and what’s stayed the same, in Sacramento during the pandemic. Exhibit 1: a bill backed by the insurance industry moves forward that would raise homeowners’ insurance rates and gut the consumer protections of Proposition 103.

Are Favors For The Insurance Industry “essential” Capitol Business?

Carmen Balber is joined for Mother’s Day by Tammy Smick, Consumer Watchdog board member who lost her 20-year-old son Alex when the medical providers he went to for care gave him a toxic cocktail of medications in the hospital. Tammy shares how Alex gives her strength and tells lawmakers it’s time to change California’s 1975 malpractice law that prevents families who lose loved ones from getting justice.

Celebration and grief compete on Mother’s Day when medical negligence is involved

Consumer Watchdog Executive Director Carmen Balber is joined by Patricia McGinnis, executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform to discuss the medical industry’s push for an executive order to immunize elder care homes and medical facilities from liability for medical injury or death that has nothing to do with COVID-19 for the length of the pandemic.

Should Governor Newsom take away nursing home residents’ rights?

Consumer Watchdog Executive Director Carmen Balber and Consumer Advocate Liza Tucker discuss the Newsom Administration's decision to approve 24 new fracking permits after a six-month moratorium, even as new studies reveal higher death rates from Covid-19 in low-income communities of color exposed to the chronic air pollution created by oil drilling.

Fracking And Covid-19 Are A Deadly Mix

Carmen Balber is joined by Charles Johnson who worked relentlessly with congress to pass the preventing maternal death act( H.R.1318). This milestone legislation is the first ever to combat the maternal death crisis in the United States. 4kira4moms.com

Charles Johnson shares his loss with us during Black Maternal Health Week

Richard Holober, President of the Consumer Federation of California, and Harvey Rosenfield, Consumer Watchdog founder and author of insurance reform Proposition 103, join Carmen Balber to discuss what insurance regulators must do to return auto insurance overpayments to consumers who aren’t driving during the pandemic.

You’re not driving: Why 'Safer at Home' should lower your auto insurance rates

Carmen Balber is joined by journalist and health insurance whistleblower Wendell Potter to discuss how the pandemic is exposing the failures of a private health insurance system geared to making profits, not providing health care.

How the for-profit health care industry makes it harder to solve the Covid-19 crisis

Carmen Balber is joined by CW litigation director and healthcare legal expert Jerry Flanagan to answer common health care access and cost questions during the coronavirus pandemic

Six Tips Your COVID-19 Health Care Rights

Carmen Balber is joined by CW's Michele Ramos, Mario Guzman, who lost his limbs to infection due to medical negligence, and his partner Ludmila Parada to discuss lessons from their experience and recent Covid-19 scare

How CoronaVirus Impact Are Hightened for Medical Negligence Survivors

Carmen Balber and Joanne Doroshow from the Center for Justice and Democracy discuss how insurers fake crises to boost profits and how a phony crisis could play into California's November election

New Report: How the Cash Rich Insurance Industry Fakes Crises and Invents Social Inflation

Jamie Court and Carmen Balber discuss how political attack ads in Tuesday’s election made use of a California campaign finance loophole to hide the identities of special interest groups funding the attacks.

Electioneering How disclosure limits may have fooled Californians

Consumer Watchdog's litigation director Jerry Flanagan and public records expert Kelly Aviles talk about CW’s new lawsuit to make public the actual calendar of California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, who is embroiled in a pay to play scandal. Whistleblowers say the records were manipulated.

A New Lawsuit To Decide If The Public Sees The CA Insurance Commissioner’s Actual Calendar

Renowned trial lawyer Nick Rowley discusses with CW President Jamie Court the death of jurist, doctor and attorney Russ Kussman and why he is financially backing the ballot measure to adjust the 1975 compensation cap on injured patients.

Fairness For Injured Patients Act Backer Nick Rowley Discuss Crossing the 600K Signature Mark

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