California Insurance Code

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Insurance Code - INS

DIVISION 2. CLASSES OF INSURANCE [1880 - 12880.8]

��( Division 2 enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145. )

PART 1. FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE [1880 - 10108.1]

��( Part 1 enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145. )

CHAPTER 1. The Marine Contract [1880 - 2010]

��( Chapter 1 enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145. )

ARTICLE 2. Concealment and Representations?Rules Peculiar to Marine Insurance [1900 - 1905]
��( Article 2 enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145. )

1900.
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In marine insurance each party is bound to communicate, in addition to what is required in the case of other insurance:

(a)�All the information which he possesses and which is material to the risk, except such as is exempt from such communication in the case of other insurance.

(b)�The exact and whole truth in relation to all matters that he represents or, upon inquiry assumes to disclose.

(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.)

1901.
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In marine insurance, information of the belief or expectation of a third person in reference to a material fact, is material.

(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.)

1902.
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A person insured by a contract of marine insurance is presumed to have, at the time of insuring, knowledge of a prior loss, if the information might possibly have reached him in the usual mode of transmission and at the usual rate of communication.

(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.)

1903.
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In marine insurance, concealment in respect to any of the following matters does not vitiate the entire contract, but merely exonerates the insurer from a loss resulting from the risk concealed:

(a)�The national character of the insured.

(b)�The liability of the subject matter to capture and detention.

(c)�The liability to seizure from breach of foreign laws of trade.

(d)�The want of necessary documents.

(e)�The use of false and simulated papers.

(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 538, Sec. 462. Effective January 1, 2007.)

1904.
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In marine insurance, if a representation by the insured is intentionally false in any respect, whether material or immaterial, the insurer may rescind the entire contract.

(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.)

1905.
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The failure of subsequent circumstances to conform to a representation as to expectation does not, in the absence of fraud, avoid marine insurance.

(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.)