21 Facts About Harvey Rosenfield

Harvey Rosenfield was born on 1952 and is an American lawyer, author and consumer advocate.

Harvey Rosenfield is best known for drafting, and organizing the campaign for, Proposition 103, a ballot proposal that rolled back automobile insurance rates in California.

Harvey Rosenfield was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1952 and grew up in Randolph.

Harvey Rosenfield's father was an accountant and his mother, a painter and poet.

In 1970, Harvey Rosenfield was involved in his first grass roots campaign: the "Smoke Out" at Randolph High School.

In 1970 Harvey Rosenfield entered Amherst College and studied psychology, though he later decided to pursue studies in law.

In 1976, Harvey Rosenfield took a $600 internship with his future mentor, Ralph Nader at Public Citizen, a Washington DC citizen advocacy group.

Three years later, after graduating from Georgetown, Harvey Rosenfield began working full-time for Nader's Public Citizen Congress Watch as an energy lobbyist opposing nuclear power in 1979.

Harvey Rosenfield fought for alternative energy sources and environmental conservation in the wake of the 1979 oil crisis when Congress considered a fossil fuels and nuclear strategy for energy independence.

Nader asked Harvey Rosenfield to go to California and help grow the California Public Interest Research Group in 1981.

Proposition 51 passed, but Harvey Rosenfield continued to work for insurance rate reductions with his newly formed public interest group.

In 1987, Harvey Rosenfield began to write a ballot box proposal and formed a campaign to sponsor it called Voter Revolt.

Harvey Rosenfield often referred to insurance companies as "outlaws" during the campaign.

Harvey Rosenfield opposed Proposition 17, a $16 million attempt by Mercury Insurance Group to repeal a key provision of Proposition 103 in 2010; it was defeated.

Harvey Rosenfield spent another $17 million on a very similar initiative in 2012; it too was defeated.

In 1994, during the Clinton healthcare debate, Harvey Rosenfield began working to reform the HMO industry.

Harvey Rosenfield co-authored Proposition 9 in 1998, a ballot initiative to block aspects of the utility deregulation laws passed by California lawmakers in 1996.

Harvey Rosenfield claimed his re-regulation efforts could have helped deter the California Energy Crisis exploited by Enron and other energy companies in 2001.

Harvey Rosenfield is a lawyer in consumer protection lawsuits brought by Consumer Watchdog's legal team challenging abusive practices by companies in the insurance, health care, automobile, cell phone, and satellite television industries, as well as government agencies that violate laws.

Harvey Rosenfield wrote Silent Violence, Silent Death: The Hidden Epidemic of Medical Malpractice in 1994.

Harvey Rosenfield has written multiple newspaper articles and testified before Congress and many state legislatures on consumer protection.