General Provisions
Known as the Health Insurance Disclosure Act
The act spans §§ 10110–11549 (1,209 sections).
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case 109 Cal. App. 2d 770 - Shaw v. Board of Administration (1952)
Most recently applied in Mahan v. Charles W. Chan Ins. Agency, Inc. (August 2017)
Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.
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.
Every person has an insurable interest in the life and health of:
(a) Himself.
(b) Any person on whom he depends wholly or in part for education or support.
(c) Any person under a legal obligation to him for the payment of money or respecting property or services, of which death or illness might delay or prevent the performance.
(d) Any person upon whose life any estate or interest vested in him depends.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.