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Order for cut in Mercury homeowner rates in force
SACRAMENTO -- An 8% cut in homeowner insurance rates for customers of Mercury General Corp. is back in play, now that a judge has denied a stay request by the Los Angeles insurer. California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones in March ordered the rate...
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The ballot's millionaires and billionaires
PolitiCalSix of the 11 propositions voters consider Tuesday reflect the handiwork of individual millionaires and billionaires. They put up the cash to get them on the ballot and in some cases have funded almost the entire campaigns Here’s a look...... -
Prop. 33 is billionaire's attempt to manipulate public policy
George Joseph must think that the old saw defining insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result doesn't apply to him — or at least that it's amenable to tweaking. Joseph, the billionaire nonagenarian founder and...
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Mercury chairman backs another auto-insurance discount initiative
Money & CompanyBackers of an automobile insurance initiative that was bankrolled by Mercury General Corp., and which voters turned down last year, want to try again.... -
Los Angeles auto insurance executive puts $8 million into initiative campaign
Money & CompanyOpponents, led by Consumer Watchdog, a Santa Monica activist group whose founder, Harvey Rosenfeld wrote Proposition 103, contend that Joseph's proposed initiative unfairly would rewrite the 1988 initiative to allow insurers to discriminate against... -
The danger of making auto insurance unaffordable [The reply]
Opinion L.A.Auto insurance could become too expensive for some Californians if George Joseph, chairman of insurer Mercury General Corp., gets his way. He's proposed an initiative for the June 2012 ballot that would reward longtime insured drivers but could ultimately... -
Chamber of Commerce jumps into insurance commissioner's race
Money & CompanyFor the second time in a month, a political action committee at the California Chamber of Commerce is bankrolling television advertisements to help Republican Mike Villines in his race against Democrat Dave Jones for state insurance commissioner. In... -
So many campaign dollars, so little to show for them
Opinion L.A.Much has been written about how many millions of dollars Meg Whitman blew on her campaign for governor. But what about all the money George Joseph spent in vain? Joseph is the founder of Mercury General, the insurance company that...... -
Mercury General using guise of benevolence to assault Prop. 103
The art of setting automobile insurance rates is incomprehensible to most of us civilians. Liability coverage, comprehensive insurance, assigned risk pools, discounts, surcharges . . . the list goes on. Just try to figure out how your carrier arrived at...Tags: Politics, Consumers, Court Administration, Services and Shopping, Pete Wilson
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The week ahead
Chicago TribuneMonday: -- Earnings: Administaff Inc.; Brown & Brown Inc.; Cephalon Inc.; Charles River Laboratories International Inc.; General Growth Properties Inc.; Hub Group Inc.; Loews Corp.; Mercury General Corp.; Priceline.com Inc.; Yum Brands Inc. Tuesday: --...Tags: Cephalon Incorporated, Zebra Technologies Corporation, Jones Apparel Group Incorporated, Investment Service, Visteon Corp.
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