Cal. Ins. Code § 838.5

Pursuant to this code, the commissioner has been and is authorized, in the instance of an application for a permit to issue securities in exchange for one or more bona fide outstanding securities, claims or property interest, or partly in such exchange and partly for cash, to approve the terms and conditions of such issuance and exchange and the fairness of such terms and conditions, after a hearing upon the fairness of such terms and conditions, to which all persons to whom it is proposed to issue securities in such exchange shall have the right to appear.