“Insurer” includes the State Compensation Insurance Fund and any private company, corporation, mutual association, reciprocal or interinsurance exchange authorized under the laws of this State to insure employers against liability for compensation and any employer to whom a certificate of consent to self-insure has been issued.
Cal. Lab. Code § 3211
General Provisions
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Santiago v. Employee Benefits Services (1985)
Most recently applied in 194 Cal. App. 4th 891 - Fort Bragg Unified School District v. Colonial American Casualty & Surety Co. (April 2011)
Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.
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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.
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