The purpose of this article is to regulate trade practices in the business of insurance in accordance with the intent of Congress as expressed in the act of Congress of March 9, 1945 (Public Law fifteen, seventy-ninth Congress), by defining, or providing for the determination of, all such practices in this state which constitute unfair methods of competition or unfair or deceptive acts or practices and by prohibiting the trade practices so defined or determined.
W. Va. Code § 33-11-1
Declaration of purpose
Applied in 43 court decisions — leading case 202 W. Va. 430 - Elmore v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (1998)
Most recently applied in Monongalia Cnty. Dev. Auth. v. Traveler's Indem. Co. of Conn. (March 2019)
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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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