A double insurance exists where the same person is insured by several insurers separately in respect to the same subject and interest.
Cal. Ins. Code § 590
Double Insurance
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 29 Cal. App. 4th 753 - Herrick Corp. v. Canadian Ins. Co. of Cal. (1994)
Most recently applied in 152 Cal. App. 4th 646 - Burns v. California Fair Plan Ass'n (June 2007)
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.