When an insurance contract is executed with an agent or trustee as the insured, the fact that his principal or beneficiary is the real party in interest may be indicated by describing the insured as agent or trustee, or by other general words in the policy.
Cal. Ins. Code § 388
Definition and Scope
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 32 Cal. 4th 588 - Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services v. Heriberto C. (2004)
Most recently applied in 28 F. Supp. 3d 1110 - McAdam v. State National Insurance (June 2014)
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.