Financial Services

Insurance and Investment Products Insurance Redlining Bill Faces Critical Test Before Assembly Insurance Committee On Wednesday, July 11 (press release, 7/10/01) Consumers Union Urges Insurance Department To Expand Outreach For Low-Cost Auto Insurance Program (press release, 6/26/01) Testimony La Unión De Consumidores Exhorta Al Departamento De Seguros Que Amplíe Sus Esfuerzos De Promoción Sobre El Programa De Seguro De Automóvil Económico (noticias, 6/26//01) Petition for Review by California Supreme Court in Auto Rating Factors (2/7/01) Community Groups, Cities Urge California Supreme Court To Strike Down Zip Code Auto Insurance Rates (press release, 2/7/01) Las Organizaciones Civiles Y Los Gobiernos De Las Ciudades Exhortan Al Tribunal Supremo De California A Que Anule Las Tarifas De Seguro De Automóvil Basadas En Los Códigos Postales (noticias, 2/7/01) Fact Sheet: Low-Cost Automobile Insurance Pilot Program (San Francisco County) (posted 2/6/01) Southwest Regional Office Issue Papers for the 77th Texas Legislature: Reducing the Number of Uninsured Motorists (1/01) (pdf format only) Southwest Regional Office Issue Papers for the 77th Texas Legislature: Public Council Offices (1/01) (pdf format only) Southwest Regional Office Issue Papers for the 77th Texas Legislature: Insurance Rate Regulation (1/01) (pdf format only) Las Propuestas De Normas Sobre Seguros Crediticios Causarán Ahorros De Casi $200 Millones Anuales A Los Consumidores De California (noticias, 1/17/01) Proposed Credit Insurance Rules Will Save California Consumers Nearly $200 Million Each Year (press release, 1/10/01) Statement by Consumers Union Federal Banking Regulators Release New Rule On Insurance Sales Protections (press release, 12/5/00) Consumers Seek Insurance Redlining Relief From 3rd Court Of Appeals (media advisory, 11/28/00) Consumers Union's 2000 California Legislative Review (press release, 10/11/00) Scorecard (html) (pdf) San Francisco Court Rules That State Farm Can't Hide Insurance Redlining Data From Public (press release, 9/13/00) Appeals Court To Take Up Suit Against Insurance Commissioner For Allowing Zip Code-Based Auto Rates (press release, 9/11/00) Judge Meurer Allows Insurance Companies To Hide Evidence Of Redlining (7/21/00) Low-Cost Auto Insurance Pilot Programs To Begin On July 1 (press release, 6/28/00) Key Decisions On Payday Loans, Insurance Redlining Anticipated On Friday (press release, 6/15/00) Judge Orders Nationwide To Release Insurance Redlining Data (press release, 5/12/00) Important Texas Decision on Insurance Redlining Data (press release, 5/12/00) State Farm Loses On Attempt To Block Disclosure Of Insurance Redlining Data (press release, 3/8/00) Supreme Court Rules For The Public In Redlining Case: High court praised for upholding government openness and accountability (press release, 3/2/00) Fresno Superior Court Rejects Insurance Companies' Request To Keep Redlining Data Secret (press release, 2/17/00) Groups Ask Texas Supreme Court To Reject Insurers' Attempts To Keep Data Secret (media advisory, 1/19/00) Consumers Union Urges Changes In Earthquake Insurance At Senate Committee Hearing (press release, 10/13/99) Testimony to the California State Senate Committee on Insurance on issues relating to the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) Consumers Union's 1999 Legislative Session Review (press release, 10/10/99) Consumers Union 1999 Legislative Review Consumer Gains Clouded By Long-Term Effect Of Industry Subsidies (press release, 6/2/99) Norma García Takes On Insurance Legislative Advocacy For Consumers Union's West Coast Office (press release, 5/4/99) Credit Insurance Is Massive Rip-Off For Consumers: State Regulation has been Ineffective Against Price Gouging by Insurers (press release, 3/9/99) Credit Insurance: The $2 Billion A Year Rip-Off Ineffective Regulation Fails to Protect Consumers (Executive Summary, 3/99) Full report (pdf format) Disaster Insurance (documents from 1998) A Consumer Blueprint For Financial Services Reform In The 106th Congress (11/16/98) In The Matter of The Adoption of 13 NMAC 18.3, Force-Placed Credit Property Insurance, Docket No. 98-364-IN (comments, 10/7/98) Letter to Rep. Jesse Jackson on Anti-Redlining Insurance Disclosure Act of 1998 (7/29/98) Testimony of Mary Griffin on the "Financial Services Act of 1998" (H.R. 10) before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee (6/24/98) Consumers to Congress: Don’t Get Taken for a Ride, Reject "Auto Choice" (press release, 5/20/98) Wins and Losses for Consumers in the Financial Modernization Bill (press release, 5/14/98) Open Letter to House of Representatives Urging Support for Amendments to Financial Modernization Bill (5/13/98) Consumers Union Reacts to House Passage of Financial Modernization Bill (press release, 5/13/98) Don't Get Taken for a Ride: Reject "Auto Choice" Act (statement, 4/30/98) A Rare Opportunity to Change Course on Banking Bill (press release, 3/31/97) Letter to House of Representatives Asking Them to Defeat the Rule for Considering Financial modernization Bill (3/31/98) Letter to the Editor, Washington Post, on Auto Choice Legislation (3/27/98) Latest Financial Services Modernization Bill Troubles Consumers Union (press release, 3/11/98) Letter to House of Representatives on consumer concern with Financial Services Modernization Bill (3/11/98) Bank Sales of Insurance and Investment Products (Fact Sheet) State Consumer Protection Laws Need To Be Preserved (fact sheet, 9/97) CU to Senate Banking Committee: Reject Phantom "Reg Reform" (press release, 3/10/98) Testimony - Financial Regulatory Relief and Economic Efficiency Act (3/10/98) Nation's Leading Consumer Groups to Governors: End Insurance Industry Stranglehold on National Association (press release, 3/5/98) Letter to Governors on NAIC funding crisis (3/4/98)

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