The purpose of this chapter is to provide a mechanism for the payment of covered claims to avoid excessive delay in payment and to avoid financial loss to claimants or policyholders under certain policies of insurance covered by the scope of this chapter because of the insolvency of an insurer, to assist in the detection and prevention of insurer insolvencies, and to provide an association to assess the cost of such protection among insurers.
RCW 48.32.010
Purpose.
Known as the Washington Insurance Guaranty Association Act
The act spans §§ 48–48 (21 sections).
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case 90 Wash. 2d 118 - Prutzman v. Armstrong (1978)
Most recently applied in 126 Wash. App. 913 - Gallagher v. Sidhu (February 2005)
2005 c 100 s 1; 1971 ex.s. c 265 s 1.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.