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FTCR Press Release

• Consumer & Public Interest Groups Back New U.S. Patent Rules That Would Curtail Abusive Behavior By Applicants
  
• Labor & Medical Industry Give 56% of Prop 93 $$ to Win Concessions in Health Care Legislation;
  Núñez Deal Would Force Consumers to Buy Health Insurance With No Limit on Price or Promise of Meaningful Benefits;
• Stem Cell Agency "Disclosure" Makes Mockery of Claims Of Openness And Transparency;
  Institute Reveals Identities of 12 Institutions Seeking $260 Million In Laboratory Grants; Five Still Secret;
• Consumer Advocates Urge Tough Rules to End Unrestricted Political Spending;
  Ethics Board Proposes Travel, Meal Disclosures to Close Spending Loophole;
• Stem Cell Agency Finally Reveals Institutions Involved In Conflict Problem;
  After Public Pressure, Five Research Institutions Are Identified During Grant Award Discussion;
• Double-Digit Rate Increases Expected Under Mass. Mandatory Health Law -- 5% Cap on Rate Hikes Proposed;
  California Labor Poised to Sell Out Consumers with Unaffordable Mandate;
• Fair Political Practices Commission Will Investigate Stem Cell Conflict Of Interest
  
• Stem Cell Institute Correct In Rejecting Applications Over Conflicts Of Interest;
  Institutions, Board Members Involved Must Be Identified, Consumer Advocates Say ;
• New Conflict of Interest Violations Revealed At California Stem Cell Institute;
  Tainted Research Grant Applications Must Be Rejected, Consumer Advocates Say;
• Farmers Insurance Asks Commissioner Poizner for Homeowners Rate Hike Based on Great Customer Service, Despite Lower Than Average Customer Service Ranking;
  California Consumer Group Challenges Farmers' Attempt to Overcharge California Homeowners One-Quarter $Billion a Year;
• Close Scrutiny Needed As First Stem Cell Grants Offered To For-Profit Companies, Consumers Say
  
• Stem Cell Chairman Robert Klein And Oversight Board Member John Reed Must Resign Because of Conflict of Interest, Consumer Advocate Tells Controller's Committee;
  Controller Chiang Will Refer Conflict Issue To FPPC;
• California Stem Cell Board Member Violates Conflict Rules, Should Resign From Committee, Consumer Group Says;
  FTCR Files Complaint About Burnham's John Reed with Fair Political Practices Commission;
• UC Deal With Oil Giant Sells Out University's Values; Insults Regents and Public, Consumer Advocates Say;
  New Details Emerge Granting BP More Power Over University Research;
• Consumer Group to Núñez: Massachusetts Mandatory Health Insurance Purchase Law Is No Model for California
  
• New Evidence That Poizner Aide Destroyed Key Document In Attempt to Help Industry;
  Industry's Strength In Department of Insurance At Issue As Commissioner Announces New General Counsel Hired From State Farm's Law Firm ;
• Núñez Health Reform Bill Establishes Mandatory Purchase Without Linking To Subsidies For Middle Class and Poor
  
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Núñez/Perata Health Plan
  
• Mandatory Purchase Deal Is Giveaway to Big Health Insurers & Unfair Burden on Middle Class Without Premium Regulation;
  Health Insurers, Which Have Donated Millions to Lawmakers, Would Gain Big Profits Under Democrats Reported Proposal;
• Gasoline Price Spike Heralds Economy-Busting Christmas 'Present' For Oil Companies
  Price for Regular Up 14 Cents Nationally, to $3.01, In One Week; No More 'Profit Restraint' for Big Oil, Says Watchdog;
• Consumer Advocates Support Patent Office On Stem Cell Patent Rejection
  
• Allstate Threatens to Leave Auto Market, Degrade Service in CA, Unless Motorists Continue Paying Excessive Premiums;
  Despite Staggering Profits, Allstate Continues to Battle Regulatory Requirement to Lower Its Auto Insurance Rates More Than $300 Million Per Year;
• Allstate Threatens to Leave Auto Market, Degrade Service in CA, Unless Motorists Continue Paying Excessive Premiums;
  Despite Staggering Profits, Allstate Continues to Battle Regulatory Requirement to Lower Its Auto Insurance Rates More Than $300 Million Per Year;
• Chevron Still On Pace For Record Annual Profit;
  Consumer Group Warns Of $4+ Gasoline As Chevron & Others Return To High Refining Profits In Spring '08;
• Perspective on Exxon: $9.4 Billion Quarterly Profit Only $2 Billion Shy of 2002 Yearly Profit;
  Group Slams "New Normal" Set By Years of Record Profits, Predicts $4-Plus Gasoline in Spring;
• Poizner Aide Helped Insurers In Lawsuit Against Commissioner, Emails Show;
  Consumer Group Says Aide, a Former Insurance Lobbyist, Should Be Fired ;
• Consumer Advocates Insist UC Regents Review $500 Million "UC-BP" Deal; Demand Proposed Contract Terms Be Made Public
  
• Governor's Health Plan Hides the True Cost of a Mandatory Purchase Requirement, Testimony Shows
  
• FTCR: Gas Prices Spiking On Speculators' Hot Air
  
• Insurance Aftermath of California Wildfires: What Consumers, Lawmakers and Regulators Should Look Out For
  
• Consumer Advocate Confronts Chevron Chief Executive Over Soaring Gasoline Prices With "Golden Nozzle Award"
  
• Consumers Call On Interstate Stem Cell Group To Endorse Open Meetings
  
• Draft Rules Won't Stop Insurers' Illegal Cancellations of Health Policies;
  Rules Compound Problems With Governor's Mandatory Health Insurance Plan;
• BP Profit Drop Just a Pause in Windfall Profits, Says Consumer Group;
  Company Warned Not to Skimp on Safety, Environmental Protections to Cut Costs;
• Giuliani Leaps Past $500,000 Mark in Big Oil Contributions;
  All Presidential Candidates Should Return Oil Industry's "Dirty Money," Says Watchdog Group;
• California's HMO "Report Card" Fails In Meaningful Evaluation of Health Care Quality and Ignores Affordability
  
• Spike in Crude Oil Price to $88/Barrel Without New Run-Up in Pump Price Exposes Oil Industry Deception, Profiteering;
  Oil Companies' Claim That Crude Oil Costs Drive Gasoline Price Makes No Sense With Today's Barrel Prices Up More Than 40% Over Spring, When Pump Prices Hit $3.25/Gallon;
• Massachusetts Mandatory Health Insurance Purchase Law Is No Model for California
  
• Governor's Mandatory Purchase of Private Health Insurance Doesn't Add Up for the Middle-Class
  
• Revised California Stem Cell Research Rules Fail to Ensure Affordable Access to Cures, Consumers Warn
  
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