Every interest in property, or any relation thereto, or liability in respect thereof, of such a nature that a contemplated peril might directly damnify the insured, is an insurable interest.
Cal. Ins. Code § 281
Insurable Interest: Generally
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case 156 Cal. App. 3d 1151 - Parsons Manufacturing Corp. v. Superior Court (1984)
Most recently applied in 28 F. Supp. 3d 1110 - McAdam v. State National Insurance (June 2014)
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.