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CA Political Candidates Demand The Resignation Of Safeway Inc./FAC Chair William Zachry
California candidates for insurance commissioner, Congress and Governor called for the
removal of Safeway Inc VP and Fraud Assesment Chair William Zachry at a press conference
in front of the California Insurance Department on July 31, 2006
removal of Safeway Inc VP and Fraud Assesment Chair William Zachry at a press conference
in front of the California Insurance Department on July 31, 2006
California Candidates Raise Zachry Issue In Insurance Commissioner Campaign
7/31/06
Candidates for California Insurance Commissioner and California governor have called on Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi to remove Safeway Inc. Vice President and Insurance Department Insurance Fraud Commission FAC Chair William Zachry for a conflict of interest.
At a press conference on the morning of July 31, 2006 in front of the offices of the California Insurance Department offices in Sacramento, Insurance Commissioner candidate Larry Cafiero from the Green Party and Peace and Freedom Party candidate Tom Condit for Insurance Commissioner both called for the resignation or removal of William Zachry from the FAC commission that he chairs. This commission helps fund DA prosecutors and regulates the insurance industry. They stated that there was a direct conflict of interest because of his position as a vice president of Safeway Inc. for Cost Risk Management and as chair of a regulatory commission for the insurance industry.
Dina Padilla, a candidate for US Congressional District 11 who is running against Richard Pombo also attended the press conference and declared that there was also a massive cost shifting scam going on in which "insurance companies are shifting their costs to the Federal SSI, California state disability and public hospitals in California". Padilla also said that Pombo had personally received PAC money from Safeway Inc. and was helping to cover-up the cost shifting.
Also joining the press conference was the Green candidate for Governor Peter Camejo. Camejo said that politicians from both parties were accomplices in the deregulation of workers’ compensation. He supported the call for the removal of Zachry as well.
All the candidates called on all the other candidates for state offices in California to support the removal of Zachry.
http://www.votecafiero.com/pr073106.html
Cafiero for Insurance Commissioner Press Release:
July 31, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, July 31, 2006
Contact: Cres Vellucci, campaign media relations 916/996-9170
Attention: Political Desk
STATEMENT AT THE JULY 31, 2006, PRESS CONFERENCE
CALLING FOR THE REMOVAL OF WILLIAM ZACHRY
SACRAMENTO -- Below is the statement given by Larry Cafiero, Green Party candidate for Insurance Commissioner, at the July 31, 2006 press conference calling for the removal of William Zachry from the California Fraud Assessment Commission:
"The growing crisis in Workers' Compensation, brought to injured workers in California thanks to the bipartisan Senate Bill 899 in 2004, is now bearing a bitter fruit for injured workers, while insurance companies reap a lush harvest of increased profits.
"A primary example of how the state systematically ignores the plight of injured workers is in the actions of the California Fraud Assessment Commission, under the leadership of a corporate executive who oversees the insurance needs of his self-insured corporation.
"This executive, William Zachry of Safeway, heads the California Fraud Assessment Commission. The commission under Zachry repeatedly has displayed favoritism to insurance companies and employers over injured workers, to the point where even his own employer, Safeway, has benefited from the commission's decisions.
"This conflict of interest is unacceptable at any level in the Department of Insurance, and must not be tolerated either by this administration or by the next Insurance Commissioner.
"As the Insurance Commissioner candidate for the Green Party, I call for the current Insurance Commissioner to remove William Zachry from the California Fraud Assessment Commission.
"Further, I call on the candidates of the Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Peace & Freedom, and American Independent parties to join me in this call for removal."
7/31/2006 Monday
11:00 AM
Press Conference
12:00 Noon Picket
California Department of Insurance offices
300 Capitol Mall
Sacramento, CA
Press Conference and Picket To Remove
State Insurance Commission Fraud Assessment Commission Chair William Zachry
Initiated by
California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day http://www.workersmemorialday.com
Californians Injured At Work http://www.ciaw.org
Voices CA Chapter, B.E.S.T <blndi26 [at] cs.com>
http://www.barbclark.com Nurse Practitioner Barb Clark
http://www.myscifstory.com Larry Nign
Injured workers and California candidates for office will be calling for the
removal of California Fraud Assessment Commission chair William Zachry.
Zachry who is responsible for helping to regulate the insurance industry and
dispensing over $22 million dollars to California District Attorney's
offices for prosecution of insurance fraud is also an executive vice
president for the self insured Safeway Inc.
He was challenged at a recent FAC hearing by injured Safeway workers who
charged that he and Safeway Inc. had refused to provide need medical and
drug costs even though these workers had been injured on the job at Safeway
Inc.
The growing crisis in Workers Comp has reached emergency proportions. On
June 29, 2006 at the Commission of Health And Safety and Workers
Compensation, Diane Przepiorski, Executive Director testified that some
California groups of Surgeons were considering pulling out entirely in
treating injured workers as a result of the implementation of the ACOEM
guidelines that were implemented by SB 899. William Zachry was one of the
authors and insurance executives directly responsible for SB 899 and
received an award from the insurance industry for helping to institute the so
called "insurance reforms".
The press conference will provide direct information about the conflict of
interest between William Zachry in his position as chair of FAC and also State Criminal Investigators under William Zachry who have publicly told injured workers that they will not
prosecute fraud by insurance companies despite the legal requirement that
they enforce all laws.
Green Insurance commissioner candidate Mike Cafiero will also be attending and urging that all candidates for California State Insurance Commissioner support the removal of William Zachry as chair of the FAC.
Additional links include:
http://www.zoominfo.com/directory/Zachry_William_382583358.htm
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2005/04/18/53877.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/29/MNGK75SR7H1.DTL
For press please contact
(415)867-0628
7/31/06
Candidates for California Insurance Commissioner and California governor have called on Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi to remove Safeway Inc. Vice President and Insurance Department Insurance Fraud Commission FAC Chair William Zachry for a conflict of interest.
At a press conference on the morning of July 31, 2006 in front of the offices of the California Insurance Department offices in Sacramento, Insurance Commissioner candidate Larry Cafiero from the Green Party and Peace and Freedom Party candidate Tom Condit for Insurance Commissioner both called for the resignation or removal of William Zachry from the FAC commission that he chairs. This commission helps fund DA prosecutors and regulates the insurance industry. They stated that there was a direct conflict of interest because of his position as a vice president of Safeway Inc. for Cost Risk Management and as chair of a regulatory commission for the insurance industry.
Dina Padilla, a candidate for US Congressional District 11 who is running against Richard Pombo also attended the press conference and declared that there was also a massive cost shifting scam going on in which "insurance companies are shifting their costs to the Federal SSI, California state disability and public hospitals in California". Padilla also said that Pombo had personally received PAC money from Safeway Inc. and was helping to cover-up the cost shifting.
Also joining the press conference was the Green candidate for Governor Peter Camejo. Camejo said that politicians from both parties were accomplices in the deregulation of workers’ compensation. He supported the call for the removal of Zachry as well.
All the candidates called on all the other candidates for state offices in California to support the removal of Zachry.
http://www.votecafiero.com/pr073106.html
Cafiero for Insurance Commissioner Press Release:
July 31, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, July 31, 2006
Contact: Cres Vellucci, campaign media relations 916/996-9170
Attention: Political Desk
STATEMENT AT THE JULY 31, 2006, PRESS CONFERENCE
CALLING FOR THE REMOVAL OF WILLIAM ZACHRY
SACRAMENTO -- Below is the statement given by Larry Cafiero, Green Party candidate for Insurance Commissioner, at the July 31, 2006 press conference calling for the removal of William Zachry from the California Fraud Assessment Commission:
"The growing crisis in Workers' Compensation, brought to injured workers in California thanks to the bipartisan Senate Bill 899 in 2004, is now bearing a bitter fruit for injured workers, while insurance companies reap a lush harvest of increased profits.
"A primary example of how the state systematically ignores the plight of injured workers is in the actions of the California Fraud Assessment Commission, under the leadership of a corporate executive who oversees the insurance needs of his self-insured corporation.
"This executive, William Zachry of Safeway, heads the California Fraud Assessment Commission. The commission under Zachry repeatedly has displayed favoritism to insurance companies and employers over injured workers, to the point where even his own employer, Safeway, has benefited from the commission's decisions.
"This conflict of interest is unacceptable at any level in the Department of Insurance, and must not be tolerated either by this administration or by the next Insurance Commissioner.
"As the Insurance Commissioner candidate for the Green Party, I call for the current Insurance Commissioner to remove William Zachry from the California Fraud Assessment Commission.
"Further, I call on the candidates of the Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Peace & Freedom, and American Independent parties to join me in this call for removal."
7/31/2006 Monday
11:00 AM
Press Conference
12:00 Noon Picket
California Department of Insurance offices
300 Capitol Mall
Sacramento, CA
Press Conference and Picket To Remove
State Insurance Commission Fraud Assessment Commission Chair William Zachry
Initiated by
California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day http://www.workersmemorialday.com
Californians Injured At Work http://www.ciaw.org
Voices CA Chapter, B.E.S.T <blndi26 [at] cs.com>
http://www.barbclark.com Nurse Practitioner Barb Clark
http://www.myscifstory.com Larry Nign
Injured workers and California candidates for office will be calling for the
removal of California Fraud Assessment Commission chair William Zachry.
Zachry who is responsible for helping to regulate the insurance industry and
dispensing over $22 million dollars to California District Attorney's
offices for prosecution of insurance fraud is also an executive vice
president for the self insured Safeway Inc.
He was challenged at a recent FAC hearing by injured Safeway workers who
charged that he and Safeway Inc. had refused to provide need medical and
drug costs even though these workers had been injured on the job at Safeway
Inc.
The growing crisis in Workers Comp has reached emergency proportions. On
June 29, 2006 at the Commission of Health And Safety and Workers
Compensation, Diane Przepiorski, Executive Director testified that some
California groups of Surgeons were considering pulling out entirely in
treating injured workers as a result of the implementation of the ACOEM
guidelines that were implemented by SB 899. William Zachry was one of the
authors and insurance executives directly responsible for SB 899 and
received an award from the insurance industry for helping to institute the so
called "insurance reforms".
The press conference will provide direct information about the conflict of
interest between William Zachry in his position as chair of FAC and also State Criminal Investigators under William Zachry who have publicly told injured workers that they will not
prosecute fraud by insurance companies despite the legal requirement that
they enforce all laws.
Green Insurance commissioner candidate Mike Cafiero will also be attending and urging that all candidates for California State Insurance Commissioner support the removal of William Zachry as chair of the FAC.
Additional links include:
http://www.zoominfo.com/directory/Zachry_William_382583358.htm
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2005/04/18/53877.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/29/MNGK75SR7H1.DTL
For press please contact
(415)867-0628
For more information:
http://www.workersmemorialday.com
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Dereliction of Duty by the state of California Government and or the federal government to protect its own citizens. OR YOUR GOVERNMENT NOT AT WORK......FOR YOU!
D0 you believe that your state or federal government protects you? I don't and here is why! It's been 19 years since I attended my first worker compensation legislative hearing, starting in 1989 and it it's been all downhill ever since which leads me to surmise that the government we have IS A SELF PERPETUATING useless machine that exists and will continue to grow because it needs to exist on the sacrificing of the lives of us citizens. Studies drag on for years and years which really have created the magnitude and multitude of problems to the point that we are all in danger. The government's role is too coverup the corruption and fraud of corporations , military and legislators. I haven't seen anything to else to convince me otherwise.
I'm going to give a list of names-legislative offices that I have visited with others, or written to or called, trying to get action on workplace injuries, immediate health hazards, insurance/HMO fraud committed by employers (selfinsured are the biggest offenders) and if the big employers can do it then the smaller businesses will follow, sexual harassement , KAISER So. Sac 6 suicides in 90-92 and in No.Sac and 1 suicide in Kaiser No. Sac. in 94. and employee murder in Kaiser So Sac-94. ((D) congressional candidate Willam DurstonDemocratic congressional candidate-2006-08 worked at kaiser so sac. while the suicides and murder occured. Let us not forget the million dollar theft of kaiser property and then there is pedophilia at Kaiser so sac. The many sick and many deaths of kaiser employees who were not given their healthcare as promised per contract by Kaiser and SEIU
We now have the DOD involved up to its top officals selling brownfiled-contaminates sites where Movie studis and kaiser get to biild their buildings and where the homeless will live. EPA, USDA AND FPA RUN by Arcadis and a former employee of the GSA which has phony insurance companies called IRG-DOWNEY,Ca. and IRAD that is run by the country of Holland that sells brownfields-Superfund sites and the biotech industry which will turn out to be bioterrorism and will probably be too late for most of us before OUR elected servants respond to the dangerous problem of the biotech industry, AGRAQUEST, because of our legislators and president and his administration have been selling us out either through ignorance, ineptness, incompetence, or greed. BUT BE GUARANTEED, WE HAVE BEEN CONTACTING THEM
If there is no enforcement of the law, then why do we need public servants?
This list may not be totally complete because of memory sake, but this list will give you, the reader, an idea about the level of incompentence or greed running this country.
1989 Hearings(several) for wc reform with Margolis.
Art Torres for Kaiser- Issues on Employment harassement and discriminations, injured workers
Willie Brown- Kaiser Employment harassement and discriminations
Tom Hayden-Kaiser and other employers about sexual harassement, employment harassement, discriminations, injured workers.
Jackie Spear-Kaiser-illegally holding an employee hostage, harassement, employee discrimination
Peace-workers compensation and voc-rehab hearings and office visits with staff.
Vic DeFazio- phone calls about Kaiser employment harassement, discriminations and injured workers.
Roger Niello(R)Sacramento Assessmblymember- a life threat to an injured worker by CNA insurance
Alarcon- fraud in the workers comp system-kaiser-kpmg, hearings and emails
Pete Wilson-fraud in the workers comp system, by whom, kaiser-kpmg
Scwharzenegger- Ca.Governor-visit to his office and emails
Clinton-President- personal handout and written complaints via email
John Garamendi-DOI Commissioner-visits and calls to his office
Steve Poizner-Dept Of Insurance Commissionervisit, phone calls, emails
Congressman Dan Lungren Twon hall meeting, visit to his office
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey-visit with her
Sentaor Ted Kennedy-fax
Sen Patrick Leahy-phone
Congresswoman Mary Bono-emails
Depts:
Fraud Assessment Commission for the DOI-chaired by William Zachry who is also VIP for Safeway Risk Management.multiple hearings visits
Cal-osha, Dept of Air Resources, multiple phone calls
NLRB-fed-filed complaints against kaiser and SEIU
DOL-fed-emails-MULTIPLE and about many problems
GAO-fed emails-MULTIPLE and about many problems
ACLU-GAP-org-phone calls and written complaints for complaints against kaiser
EEOC-many filed complaintsagainst kaiser and other other employers
DFHA-state-many filed complaints against kaiser and other employers
Dept. of Human Rights , City & Cty of Sacramento.mnay filed complaints agaisnt kaiser and other employers
DIR- hearings with oral testimony by injured workers, coomplaints to the Med Industrial Council-Audit-Ethics Committe for judicial misconduct, complaints against kaiser and a other employers.
CHSWc-oral tesitmony by injured workers
WCAB-complaint about judges, doctors.
AG's-LOCKYER & JERRY BROWN
Ca.Supreme Court-Complaints against judges for judicial misconduct
Sacramento Superior and Municpal Courts-Civil suits against employers like Kaiser for harassment, sex, race, age and union disrminations.(So far most judges gave summary judgement to kaiser as they do to most corproations.)
CBA California Bar Association.Complaints against both defesne and plaintiff attorneys for hiding evidence or legal malpractice
Unions:
SEIU(I was a union steward for about 7 years and brought many complaints to them about the harassement, health hazards, discriminations but they DID NOTHING.
Sacramento Central Labor Council-all area unions-(I was an Executive Board member for 2 years and they did nothing as well.
Longshoremen
Lawyers for workers comp employment civil suits, QUI Tam- There isn't enough room for all the names of the sellouts. But IF I must, I can give all the names.
Doctors. The same applies
Lawyers that we fild a QUI TAM for whistleblowing group Kohn Kohn and ColaPinto-Kaiser and KPMG ties to defraud the federal government and they've done a fine damn job of it.
Media:
Sacramento Bee
Sacramaeto News and Review,
San Francisco Chronicle
New York Times,
L.A.Times,
CNN
C-SPAN
FRONTLINE
FOX NEWS-FAIR AND BALANCED FOR THOSE WHO RUN GOVERNMENT
Internet groups:
Bullying Institute
Consumer Agencies:
Foundation for taxpayers :
Jamie Court
Movie stars-etc,
Michel Moore-many emails
Rob Reiner-Gave him the name of kaiserpapers.org
D0 you believe that your state or federal government protects you? I don't and here is why! It's been 19 years since I attended my first worker compensation legislative hearing, starting in 1989 and it it's been all downhill ever since which leads me to surmise that the government we have IS A SELF PERPETUATING useless machine that exists and will continue to grow because it needs to exist on the sacrificing of the lives of us citizens. Studies drag on for years and years which really have created the magnitude and multitude of problems to the point that we are all in danger. The government's role is too coverup the corruption and fraud of corporations , military and legislators. I haven't seen anything to else to convince me otherwise.
I'm going to give a list of names-legislative offices that I have visited with others, or written to or called, trying to get action on workplace injuries, immediate health hazards, insurance/HMO fraud committed by employers (selfinsured are the biggest offenders) and if the big employers can do it then the smaller businesses will follow, sexual harassement , KAISER So. Sac 6 suicides in 90-92 and in No.Sac and 1 suicide in Kaiser No. Sac. in 94. and employee murder in Kaiser So Sac-94. ((D) congressional candidate Willam DurstonDemocratic congressional candidate-2006-08 worked at kaiser so sac. while the suicides and murder occured. Let us not forget the million dollar theft of kaiser property and then there is pedophilia at Kaiser so sac. The many sick and many deaths of kaiser employees who were not given their healthcare as promised per contract by Kaiser and SEIU
We now have the DOD involved up to its top officals selling brownfiled-contaminates sites where Movie studis and kaiser get to biild their buildings and where the homeless will live. EPA, USDA AND FPA RUN by Arcadis and a former employee of the GSA which has phony insurance companies called IRG-DOWNEY,Ca. and IRAD that is run by the country of Holland that sells brownfields-Superfund sites and the biotech industry which will turn out to be bioterrorism and will probably be too late for most of us before OUR elected servants respond to the dangerous problem of the biotech industry, AGRAQUEST, because of our legislators and president and his administration have been selling us out either through ignorance, ineptness, incompetence, or greed. BUT BE GUARANTEED, WE HAVE BEEN CONTACTING THEM
If there is no enforcement of the law, then why do we need public servants?
This list may not be totally complete because of memory sake, but this list will give you, the reader, an idea about the level of incompentence or greed running this country.
1989 Hearings(several) for wc reform with Margolis.
Art Torres for Kaiser- Issues on Employment harassement and discriminations, injured workers
Willie Brown- Kaiser Employment harassement and discriminations
Tom Hayden-Kaiser and other employers about sexual harassement, employment harassement, discriminations, injured workers.
Jackie Spear-Kaiser-illegally holding an employee hostage, harassement, employee discrimination
Peace-workers compensation and voc-rehab hearings and office visits with staff.
Vic DeFazio- phone calls about Kaiser employment harassement, discriminations and injured workers.
Roger Niello(R)Sacramento Assessmblymember- a life threat to an injured worker by CNA insurance
Alarcon- fraud in the workers comp system-kaiser-kpmg, hearings and emails
Pete Wilson-fraud in the workers comp system, by whom, kaiser-kpmg
Scwharzenegger- Ca.Governor-visit to his office and emails
Clinton-President- personal handout and written complaints via email
John Garamendi-DOI Commissioner-visits and calls to his office
Steve Poizner-Dept Of Insurance Commissionervisit, phone calls, emails
Congressman Dan Lungren Twon hall meeting, visit to his office
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey-visit with her
Sentaor Ted Kennedy-fax
Sen Patrick Leahy-phone
Congresswoman Mary Bono-emails
Depts:
Fraud Assessment Commission for the DOI-chaired by William Zachry who is also VIP for Safeway Risk Management.multiple hearings visits
Cal-osha, Dept of Air Resources, multiple phone calls
NLRB-fed-filed complaints against kaiser and SEIU
DOL-fed-emails-MULTIPLE and about many problems
GAO-fed emails-MULTIPLE and about many problems
ACLU-GAP-org-phone calls and written complaints for complaints against kaiser
EEOC-many filed complaintsagainst kaiser and other other employers
DFHA-state-many filed complaints against kaiser and other employers
Dept. of Human Rights , City & Cty of Sacramento.mnay filed complaints agaisnt kaiser and other employers
DIR- hearings with oral testimony by injured workers, coomplaints to the Med Industrial Council-Audit-Ethics Committe for judicial misconduct, complaints against kaiser and a other employers.
CHSWc-oral tesitmony by injured workers
WCAB-complaint about judges, doctors.
AG's-LOCKYER & JERRY BROWN
Ca.Supreme Court-Complaints against judges for judicial misconduct
Sacramento Superior and Municpal Courts-Civil suits against employers like Kaiser for harassment, sex, race, age and union disrminations.(So far most judges gave summary judgement to kaiser as they do to most corproations.)
CBA California Bar Association.Complaints against both defesne and plaintiff attorneys for hiding evidence or legal malpractice
Unions:
SEIU(I was a union steward for about 7 years and brought many complaints to them about the harassement, health hazards, discriminations but they DID NOTHING.
Sacramento Central Labor Council-all area unions-(I was an Executive Board member for 2 years and they did nothing as well.
Longshoremen
Lawyers for workers comp employment civil suits, QUI Tam- There isn't enough room for all the names of the sellouts. But IF I must, I can give all the names.
Doctors. The same applies
Lawyers that we fild a QUI TAM for whistleblowing group Kohn Kohn and ColaPinto-Kaiser and KPMG ties to defraud the federal government and they've done a fine damn job of it.
Media:
Sacramento Bee
Sacramaeto News and Review,
San Francisco Chronicle
New York Times,
L.A.Times,
CNN
C-SPAN
FRONTLINE
FOX NEWS-FAIR AND BALANCED FOR THOSE WHO RUN GOVERNMENT
Internet groups:
Bullying Institute
Consumer Agencies:
Foundation for taxpayers :
Jamie Court
Movie stars-etc,
Michel Moore-many emails
Rob Reiner-Gave him the name of kaiserpapers.org
For more information:
http://dinapadillaforcongress.com
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