A new regulation that makes it harder for health insurance companies to drop individual policyholders in California is being challenged in court by an industry trade group. The California Department of Insurance’s new regulations require insurers to investigate the medical …
A California state Senate report said nurse assistants who lost their certification over abuse, negligence or theft in nursing homes were able to go to work as caregivers in assisted living facilities because of a computer tracking loophole. A Senate …
A California assemblyman said he’ll try a third time to get strict measures on when health insurance companies can cancel policies approved into law. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill backed by Assemblyman Hector De La Torre. The governor said …
A nurse assistant who is in a vegetative state after being attacked at a Pasadena hospital has been unfairly denied care by workers’ compensation and her health insurance, her attorney alleges. Amelia Mendoza, 52, was attacked twice in April by …
A California assemblyman said Tuesday he’ll try a third time to get strict measures on when health insurance companies can cancel policies approved into law. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday vetoed a bill backed by Assemblyman Hector De La Torre. …
A bonfire built by college students and never fully extinguished was responsible for the massive wildfire in Santa Barbara that destroyed 210 homes, many of them multimillion-dollar properties, authorities said. An anonymous tipster told police 10 students gathered Nov. 12, …
Nearly 100 pharmacists and the hospitals they work for face fines for failing to remove a blood thinner from their shelves after a federal recall last winter, a California state agency said. The recalled drug heparin was found 94 times …
Eighteen hospitals in California were fined for state health code violations, including leaving surgical instruments inside patients and causing the death of one patient by improperly inserting an intravenous catheter. The fines follow investigations from the California Department of Public …
Two of California’s biggest health insurers have agreed to collectively pay $13 million and reinstate more than 2,000 insurance policies to settle claims with the state that they illegally dropped policyholders from coverage. Anthem Blue Cross, a unit of Indianapolis-based …
A Morgantown, W. Va., nurse drugged and killed her husband before setting their house on fire because she was unhappy with her job and her marriage, and hoped to gain nearly $700,000 in insurance payments, prosecutors alleged during opening arguments …
