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Year in Review Column

Dec. 24, 2014

Small, but notable, updates to insurance law in 2014

2014 might have been a dramatic year, especially in areas of insurance touching on medical care. But in the end, we had an incremental year, one whose legal developments were dominated by case law. By Michael A.S. Newman


By Michael A.S. Newman


Change in California insurance law tends to oscillate between two extremes, incremental and dramatic - incremental being the rule, dramatic the exception. Like earthquakes, dramatic changes are memorable, their years sticking in the memory (or at least in the collective memory of the insurance bar).


For example, 1988 saw the advent of Proposition 103, which changed the face of insurance law, making the California insurance commis...

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