Life insurance includes insurance upon the lives of persons or appertaining thereto, and the granting, purchasing, or disposing of annuities.
Cal. Ins. Code § 101
Classes of Insurance
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case Securities & Exchange Commission v. Variable Annuity Life Insurance (1959)
Most recently applied in 46 Cal. 4th 56 - Fairbanks v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County (April 2009)
Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.
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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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.