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Insurance Carriers

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2007

    Dr. No Good?

    Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas announced the arrests of three medical doctors who allegedly traded their professional oaths for quick cash. Michael Cheeluen Chan, 61, Mario Z. Rosenberg, 59, and William Wilson Hampton, 51, now face 47 felony counts and, if convicted, could go to pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2006

    Is the Medical Malpractice Insurance "crisis" over?

    A group called Americans for Insurance Reform has issued a study that concludes there has been a "wholesale decline of medical malpractice insurance rates nationwide" and that the so-called medical malpractice insurance "crisis" is over--whether or not states enacted restrictions on patients such as ... More >>

  • News

    November 4, 1999

    Were Gonna Puke

    Patients rights? Not if Chris Cox gets his way

  • Calendar

    November 27, 2008

    All Class

    UCI Jazz Orchestra

  • Columns

    January 11, 2007

    Commie Girl

    Sex on a school desk, the Governors health care plan and Susan Kang Schroeders actual age (38!)

  • News

    October 17, 2002

    Gary Mendoza: Consumer-Rights Warrior?

    A daily reporter endorses GOP candidate for insurance commissioner

  • Columns

    October 19, 2000

    Letters

    A daily reporter endorses GOP candidate for insurance commissioner

  • News

    October 5, 2000

    Honk if You Hate HMOS!

    One-woman protest against PacifiCare becomes curbside crusade

  • News

    June 1, 2000

    Revolting

    Reg attack on insurance reformer produces a counterattack

  • News

    July 1, 1999

    The Bullet-Proof HMO

    How the federal government helps shield health-maintenance organizations from negligence suits

  • News

    June 24, 1999

    Unhealthy incomes

    Too many of OCs best-paid executives work for HMOs

  • Columns

    October 19, 2000

    Letters from the Editor

    Too many of OCs best-paid executives work for HMOs

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    The Other Side of the Health-Care Debate Strikes Back

    The other side of the health-care debate (think opposite of Fox News' town hall criers) has come out swinging of late.California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee just issued a statement with the provocative title, "California's Real Death Panels: Insurers Deny 21% of Claims." ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    UC Irvine Seeks to Cut Through Healthcare Reform Bullshit

    The AFL-CIO convention in Pittrburgh voted last night to endorse single-payer, universal healthcare for all Americans, and rU.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) just trotted out to reporters his bill to provide non-single-payer, non-universal healthcare for not-quite-all Americans. Coincidence? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    UPDATED: Daryn Peterson, Fake Doctor Boosted in Register Story, Sentenced to Jail and Probation

    ​Daryn Peterson, who was convicted in December of posing as a doctor and claiming to heal serious or incurable diseases including cancer and AIDS, was sentenced today to 270 days in jail and five years probation, and is prohibited from working in any medical field or selling any vitamins or pharma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    OC Phenomeon Blamed for Ritz-Carlton Las Vegas Closure

    Dealer goes bust!​The 338-room Ritz-Carlton Las Vegas opened in 2003 in then-fast-growing South Nevada community of Lake Las Vegas, 17 miles from the Strip. The AAA Five Diamond, Mediterranean-styled, $170 million hotel boasts vine-covered trellises and balconies, balustrades, shaded loggias and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2010

    Duane Roberts, Anaheim Activist, Announces U.S. Sentate Run

    Roberts​If a former community organizer can become president of the United States, why can't a community organizer become a U.S. senator?Longtime Anaheim activist Duane Roberts announced that he will file papers with the Orange County Registrar of Voters today to put his name on the June primary b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    Mitchell Basil Zogob, Insurance Broker Fraudster, Brokers 10 Years in Can

    ​A San Juan Capistrano insurance broker this week brokered a 10-year deal behind state prison bars after pleading guilty to grand theft and insurance fraud in a $4.6 million scheme involving false certificates of insurance being issued to four companies.Mitchell Basil Zogob, 51, worked as an insu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Woman Wins $1.4 Million Award for Anaheim Company's On-the-Job Spanking

    ​A saleswoman for an Anaheim-based, now-bankrupt alarm company is entitled to $1.4 million for having endured spanking during a company team-building exercise. (Who'd these jokers have running her office? Michael Scott?)A jury also sided with Janet Orlando, who resides in Clovis in Fresno County, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    [UPDATED with New $$$ Details:] Settlement of Anthem Blue Cross Suit Over Web Files on 600,000 Left Unprotected Gets Early OK

    ​UPDATE, JULY 21, 4:13 P.M.: A representative of a Newport Beach law firm just provided the Weekly with more details on what members of a class-action lawsuit would receive under a proposed settlement with Anthem Blue Cross and related insurance and healthcare companies over personal information ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Glen Justice, Local Oncologist, Sentenced to 18 Months For Health Care Fraud

    ​An Orange County oncologist, whose fraudulent health care schemes caused losses of up to $1 million, was sentenced to a year-and-a-half in federal prison yesterday.In a precious paradigm of irony, the 66-year-old doctor who pleaded guilty to five counts of health care fraud is named Glen Justice. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    OC Couple Claims Real Estate Seminar was Scam to Secure $245,000 Loan Against Their Property

    ​An Orange County couple that attended a real estate seminar is suing 12 people and seven corporations, claiming information they put on an event form regarding property they owned was used to "brazenly forge" their names and get "a fraudulent $245,000 loan" secured by their real estate.Gerald a ... More >>

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