Liability of Decedent Covered byInsurance
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Herrle v. Estate of Marshall (1996)
Most recently applied in Meleski v. Estate (November 2018)
Enacted by Stats. 1990, Ch. 79.
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.
(a) Subject to the provisions of this chapter, an action to establish the decedent’s liability for which the decedent was protected by insurance may be commenced or continued against the decedent’s estate without the need to join as a party the decedent’s personal representative or successor in interest.
(b) The remedy provided in this chapter is cumulative and may be pursued concurrently with other remedies.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.