The person who undertakes to indemnify another by insurance is the insurer, and the person indemnified is the insured.
Cal. Ins. Code § 23
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Known as the Insurance Code
The act spans §§ 1–48 (54 sections).
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 9 Cal. 3d 371 - Cooper v. Union Bank (1973)
Most recently applied in Myers v. Board of Equalization (September 2015)
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.