The purpose of this article is to regulate trade practices in the business of insurance in accordance with the intent of Congress as expressed in the Act of Congress of March 9, 1945 (Public Law 15, Seventy-ninth Congress), by defining, or providing for the determination of, all such practices in this State which constitute unfair methods of competition or unfair or deceptive acts or practices and by prohibiting the trade practices so defined or determined.
Cal. Ins. Code § 790
Unfair Practices
Applied in 57 court decisions — leading case 46 Cal. 3d 287 - Moradi-Shalal v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Companies (1988)
Most recently applied in Pacificare Life & Health Ins. Co. v. Jones (September 2018)
Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1737.
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