Consumer Watchdog, an organization that often intervenes in regulatory issues, has been fighting a running battle with Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara from virtually the first moment Lara took office four years ago.

Source: https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/dan-walters-could-public-records-act-be-made-more-useful/article_0642bfee-ae52-11ed-819c-2f0286ee77a4.html

"It should not take hours on the phone or the intervention of a news station to get a hospital to correct their billing," said Carmen Balber, the executive director of Consumer Watchdog.

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