Insurance is a contract whereby one undertakes to indemnify another against loss, damage, or liability arising from a contingent or unknown event.
Cal. Ins. Code § 22
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Known as the Insurance Code
The act spans §§ 1–48 (54 sections).
Applied in 58 court decisions — leading case 11 Cal. 4th 1 - Waller v. Truck Insurance Exchange, Inc. (1995)
Most recently applied in Williby v. Aetna Life Insurance Co. (August 2017)
Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.
How often courts cite this section
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.