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Insurance

Mar. 6, 2012

Consumer Watchdog corners market on intervenor fees

It's a power-to-the people move that many in California know little about - a state law that permits members of the public to challenge rate hikes for automobile and other kinds of insurance. And a single group has dominated the process.


By Ciaran McEvoy


Daily Journal Staff Writer


It's a power-to-the people move that many in California know little about - a state law that permits members of the public to challenge rate hikes for automobile and other kinds of insurance.


Although the public has the right to fight insurance rate increases, in recent years only a small cadre of consumer activists seem to have mastered the intervenor process created by the voter-approved Propos...

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