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Robins Kaplan LLP

The Robins Kaplan Insurance Insight - Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2018: The Broadening of California’s Unfair Insurance Practices? A...

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Recent high-stakes litigation has captured the attention of insurance professionals everywhere. A California Court of Appeal’s finding in Pacificare Life & Health Ins. Co. v. Jones affirmed on September 20, 2018, $91 million...more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

Court Upholds California Insurance Commissioner’s Authority to Enforce Insurance Regulations

In PacifiCare Life & Health Ins. Co. v. Jones (No. G053914, filed 9/20/18), a California appeals court upheld the California Insurance Commissioner’s authority to impose a $173 million penalty on a health insurer based on a...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

California’s High Court Gives Insurance Regulators New Tools To Broaden Authority

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Nearly two years ago, a California appellate court invalidated a rule promulgated by the state’s Insurance Commissioner, on the ground that the regulator lacks authority to prohibit “deceptive acts or practices” which are not...more

Cozen O'Connor

California Supreme Court Upholds Replacement Cost Estimate Regulation (For Now)

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In 2011, the California Insurance Commissioner promulgated a regulation governing replacement cost estimates for homeowners insurance (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 10, §2695.183 [the Regulation]). After the trial court and...more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

California Supreme Court Upholds Insurance Commissioner’s Authority to Regulate Replacement Cost Estimates

In Assn. of Cal. Insurance Companies v. Jones ( No. S226529, filed 1/23/17), the California Supreme Court reversed trial and appellate court decisions to hold that California’s Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones had the...more

Cozen O'Connor

A New Twist in the California Debate Over Allegedly Inadequate Replacement Cost Limits in Homeowners’ Policies

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The April 8, 2015 decision of the California Court of Appeals in Ass’n. of Cal. Insurance Companies v. Jones, 2015 WL 1569669, 2015 Cal. App. LEXIS 298 (Cal.Ct.App., Apr. 8, 2015) held that the state’s Insurance Commissioner...more

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