The purpose of this article is to provide a mechanism for the payment of covered claims under certain insurance policies to avoid excessive delay in payment and to the extent provided in this article, minimize financial loss to claimants or policyholders because of the insolvency of an insurer, and to permit and to provide an association to assess the cost of this protection among insurers.
W. Va. Code § 33-26-2
Purpose
Known as the West Virginia Insurance Guaranty Association Act
The act spans §§ 33–33 (19 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 205 W. Va. 519 - DeVane v. Kennedy (1999)
Most recently applied in West Virginia Insurance Guaranty Ass'n v. Potts (October 2003)
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: West Virginia Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain West Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.