California Civil Code ARTICLE 2 - Interest as Damages

• Section 3287.
  (a) A person who is entitled to recover damages certain, or capable of being made certain by calculation, and the right to recover which is vested...
• Section 3288.
  In an action for the breach of an obligation not arising from contract, and in every case of oppression, fraud, or malice, interest may be...
• Section 3289.
  (a) Any legal rate of interest stipulated by a contract remains chargeable after a breach thereof, as before, until the contract is superseded by a verdict...
• Section 3289.5.
  For purposes of Section 3289, the rate of the contracted finance charge shall be the legal rate of interest stipulated by a retail installment contract...
• Section 3290.
  Accepting payment of the whole principal, as such, waives all claim to interest.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 3291.
  In any action brought to recover damages for personal injury sustained by any person resulting from or occasioned by the tort of any other person,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018