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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 379.195

Accident insurance liability fixed, when — cancellation prohibited

Known as the The Casualty and Surety Rate Regulatory Law

The act spans §§ 379–379 (298 sections).

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE v. Hartford Fire Ins. (2000)

Most recently applied in COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE v. Hartford Fire Ins. (February 2000)

Effective: 28 Aug 1939; (RSMo 1939 § 6009)

1. In respect to every contract of insurance made between an insurance company, person, firm or association, whether a stock, a mutual, a reciprocal or other company, association or organization, and any person, firm or corporation, by which such person, firm or corporation is insured against loss or damage on account of the bodily injury or death or damage to property by accident of any person, for which loss or damage such person, firm or corporation is responsible, whenever a loss occurs on account of a casualty covered by such contract of insurance, the liability of the insurance company, if liability there be, shall become absolute, and the payment of said loss shall not depend upon the satisfaction by the assured of a final judgment against him for loss, or damage, or death, or if the insured becomes insolvent or discharged in bankruptcy during the period that the policy is in operation or any part is due or unpaid, occasioned by said casualty.

2. No such contract of insurance shall be cancelled or annulled by any agreement between the insurance company and the assured after the said assured has become responsible for such loss or damage, and any such cancellation or annulment shall be void.

Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.