§ 790 The purpose of this article is to regulate trade practices in the …
§ 790.01 This article applies to reciprocal and interinsurance exchanges, …
§ 790.02 No person shall engage in this State in any trade practice which is …
§ 790.03 The following are hereby defined as unfair methods of competition and …
§ 790.031 The requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 790.034, and Sections …
§ 790.034 (a) Regulations adopted by the commissioner pursuant to this …
§ 790.035 (a) Any person who engages in any unfair method of competition …
§ 790.036 (a) It is an unfair and deceptive act or practice in the …
§ 790.037 (a) It is an unfair business practice for a health insurance …
§ 790.04 The commissioner shall have power to examine and investigate into the …
§ 790.05 Whenever the commissioner shall have reason to believe that a person …
§ 790.06 (a) Whenever the commissioner shall have reason to believe that …
§ 790.07 Whenever the commissioner shall have reason to believe that any …
§ 790.08 The powers vested in the commissioner in this article shall be …
§ 790.09 No order to cease and desist issued under this article directed to …
§ 790.10 The commissioner shall, from time to time as conditions warrant, …
§ 790.15 (a) If an insurer or any affiliate of an insurer has failed to …

Terms Used In California Codes > Insurance Code > Division 1 > Part 2 > Chapter 1 > Article 6.5 - Unfair Practices

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Authority: means the San Francisco Port Authority, as the same is constituted by Part 1 (commencing at Section 1690) of Division 6 of . See California Harbors and Navigation Code 3901
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Commission: means the Harbors and Watercraft Commission, as the same is constituted by Division 1 (commencing with Section 30) of this code, or any successor thereof. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 3901
  • Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner of this State. See California Insurance Code 20
  • Committee: means the Harbor Improvement Bond Committee. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 3901
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • County: includes city and county. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 14
  • County: includes "city and county. See California Insurance Code 14
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Insurance agent: means a person authorized, by and on behalf of an insurer, to transact all classes of insurance other than life, disability, or health insurance, on behalf of an admitted insurance company. See California Insurance Code 31
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Person: means any person, association, organization, partnership, business trust, limited liability company, or corporation. See California Insurance Code 19
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • San Francisco Harbor Improvement Fund: means the fund now existing in the State Treasury and created by Section 1706. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 3901
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 20
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Insurance Code 28
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.