California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
Insurance Code - INS |
Division 1. GENERAL RULES GOVERNING INSURANCE |
Part 1. THE CONTRACT |
Chapter 6. Loss |
ARTICLE 3. Notice and Proofs of Loss |
Section 551.
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Except in the case of life, marine, or fire insurance, notice of an accident, injury, or death may be given at any time within twenty days after the event, to the insurer under a policy against loss therefrom. In such a policy, no requirement of notice within a lesser period shall be valid.
(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.)