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Cal. Insurance Code § 790.01 (2026)

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This article applies to reciprocal and interinsurance exchanges, Lloyds insurers, fraternal benefit societies, fraternal fire insurers, grants and annuities societies, insurers holding certificates of exemptions, motor clubs, nonprofit hospital associations, life agents, broker-agents, surplus line brokers and special lines surplus line brokers as well as all other persons engaged in the business of insurance.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1979–2022 · leading case: Tran v. Farmers Grp., Inc., 128 Cal. Rptr. 2d 728 (Cal. Ct. App. 2003).
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Tran v. Farmers Grp., Inc., 128 Cal. Rptr. 2d 728 (Cal. Ct. App. 2003). “We are not persuaded to a different result by the Group’s reference to Insurance Code sections 1303 and 1305, where a distinction for certain purposes is made between an insurer and attomey-in-fact.”
Delos v. Farmers Ins. Grp., 93 Cal. App. 3d 642 (Cal. Ct. App. 1979). “To the *653 contrary, our consideration of the Insurance Code and its regulation of persons engaged in the insurance business (Ins. Code, § 790.01) and attorneys-in-fact (Ins.”
Eddy v. Sharp, 199 Cal. App. 3d 858 (Cal. Ct. App. 1988). “(Ins. Code, § 790.01.) Sections 780, 781 and 790.”
Gen. Ins. v. Mammoth Vista Owners' Ass'n, 174 Cal. App. 3d 810 (Cal. Ct. App. 1985). “persons engaged in the business of insurance” (Ins. Code, § 790.01) and section 790.03 defines those acts prohibited as “unfair methods of competition and unfair and deceptive acts or practices in the business of insurance.”
In Re Ins. Antitrust Litig., 723 F. Supp. 464 (N.D. Cal. 1989). “01 is typical: This article applies to reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, Lloyds insurers, fraternal benefit societies, fraternal fire insurers, grants and annuities societies, insurers holding certificates of exemptions, motor clubs, nonprofit hospital associations,…”
Reasoner v. Aetna Life Ins., 600 F. Supp. 278 (S.D. Cal. 1984). · cites it 2× “DISCUSSION California Insurance Code § 790.01 provides that the statutory duties embodied in § 790.”
Height Street Skilled Care, LLC v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. (E.D. Cal. 2022). · cites it 2× “12 Cal. Ins. Code § 790.01 (emphasis added).”
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