Survival and Continuation
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 507 F. Supp. 2d 117 - Bennett v. Islamic Republic of Iran (2007)
Most recently applied in Flores v. City of Westminster (October 2017)
Added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 178, Sec. 20
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) Except as otherwise provided by statute, a cause of action for or against a person is not lost by reason of the person’s death, but survives subject to the applicable limitations period.
(b) This section applies even though a loss or damage occurs simultaneously with or after the death of a person who would have been liable if the person’s death had not preceded or occurred simultaneously with the loss or damage.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.