Concealment and Representations—Rules Peculiar to Marine Insurance
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case Cigna Property and Casualty Insurance Company (1998)
Most recently applied in Brandwein v. Butler CA4/1 (August 2013)
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.
In marine insurance each party is bound to communicate, in addition to what is required in the case of other insurance:
(a) All the information which he possesses and which is material to the risk, except such as is exempt from such communication in the case of other insurance.
(b) The exact and whole truth in relation to all matters that he represents or, upon inquiry assumes to disclose.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.