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Dina Padilla's Fighting Record

Who is Dina Padilla

Dina Padilla has been fighting corruption and the long going scams of the insurance industry in California. She is a former union leader at Kaiser in Sacramento who began to fight Kaiser's treatment of its workers and patients. Her struggle for justice and healthcare has made her a strong advocate for injured workers and the public.

She will fight to eliminate the insurance industry in healthcare and represent the people of California who need a representative that cannot be bought.

Battle At Kaiser
While a leader of the SEIU UHW in Sacramento, she stood up for the membership and to took on Kaiser, which is a self-insured employer. She found out that the labor-management partnership at Kaiser between the SEIU and Kaiser meant that they were not standing up for the injured workers and the public. 

She has met with the present Insurance Commissioner and presented him with evidence of insurance company fraud and also a cover-up by the staff in his own office and the California Fraud Assessment Commission FAC. This California insurance commission provides $29 million a year from premiums from the insurance industry to California District Attorneys to prosecute fraud in this industry. Staff at Steve Poizner's office has personally told Dina Padilla that they do not prosecute workers comp fraud by the insurance industry. This as well was reported to Poizner but he refused to act on the long going corruption and cover-ups by his office.

The Insurance Commission Refuses To Go After Criminal Fraud by Insurance Industry
Instead of going after employers and the insurance industry for criminal fraud and cost shifting they have illegally targeted workers who have claims against these same companies. In San Mateo they jailed Atherton police dispatcher Anita Blick who later had the case thrown out. At the same time the San Mateo DA refused to prosecute Lowe's for workers comp fraud against injured worker Joseph Dow. Joseph Dow even met with Insurance Commissioner Poizner on his case. Instead California DA's spend millions of dollars targeting and in some cases terrorizing injured workers and small employers while ignoring workers comp fraud by insurance companies like Mercury Insurance Group, Zenith, Citicorp, Zurich and State Fund and self insured employers like Safeway Inc. and Kaiser.

She has helped remove William Zachry, the former chair of the California Fraud Assessment Commission FAC and also Vice President of Safeway for Risk Management. Zachry who was appointed by Gray Davis and had been re-appointed by the present governor  has a conflict of interest and the commission is controlled by the insurance  industry including the appointed "labor" commissioners who do not represent workers.

Eliminate Insurance Control Of Healthcare Industry
Dina Padilla is also for eliminating the control and power of the insurance industry in healthcare. As insurance commissioner she will organize and support the fight for single payer and will prosecute the insurance industry for system fraud and cost shifting in which injured workers costs are shifted over to the local, state and Federal government programs like SSI. The money collected for healthcare should go to healthcare providers and not billionaires like Warren Buffet who supported the deregulation of the insurance industry under SB899.

Dina Padilla has also sought to fight the cost shifting by the biotech industry like Davis Agraquest, which was owned by former Monsanto scientist Pam Marrone. Dave Bell, a bio-tech worker was infected by the pesticide genetic engineering firm because of the lack of proper health and safety conditions and the company and the insurance company Liberty Mutual denied liability and forced the Federal government to pay over $330,000 for  Bell's health costs.

This is going on throughout California and nationally and both the Democrats and Republicans in California have supported the deregulation of workers compensation and the insurance industry that allows them to literally get away with murder.

Force Developers-Public Agencies To Clean Up Toxic Dump Sites In California
Padilla has also fought against the dangerous toxic dumpsites in California that have been converted from Superfund sites to "Brownfield" sites. Dina was sued in a SLAPP suit by national toxic site developer Stuart Lichter to silence her over going public about the criminal health scandal at the Downey toxic dumpsite. Dina had helped expose Stuart Lichter and the City of Downey, which developed the site into the Downey Studios and a Kaiser hospital complex without cleaning up the site.

Injured workers and those who live in the communities end up getting sick and going to public agencies using our tax dollars for health problems that should be paid for by the insurance industry and the US government which allowed the development of these sights without proper oversight.

Lichter who has covered up this deadly criminal conspiracy denied that injured IATSE and Kaiser SEIU-UHW workers were getting sick at the site. Also Los Angeles County Office of Education workers were getting sick at the site from this toxic site cover-up.

Dina won the SLAPP lawsuit filed by Stuart Lichter and Lichter lost the suit with prejudice which means he cannot sue again.

These toxic dumpsites exist throughout California and Dina Padilla will put these polluters in the headlights and force them to pay for the healthcare and public costs that are now paid for by the people of California.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Attorney General Jerry Brown, Senators Boxer and Senator Feinstein, Congressman Henry Waxman, chair of the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Congressman George Miller, chair of the US House Committee on Education and Labor all were made aware of these insurance scams, health and safety problems and the healthcare crisis but all have refused to take action or initiate studies.

Dina will also oppose the "insurance death policies" in California that allow insurance to be sold betting that people will die early. This sick business is another example of the nature of the insurance industry.

She has since fought to defend the public and injured workers throughout California. She is a fighter against criminal corruption in the Dep. of Insurance and insurance scams/cost shifting by the billionaires.

Lets get tough with the insurance industry in California and have fair treatment of workers and the public.