California Insurance Code ARTICLE 4 - Warranties

• Section 440.
  A warranty is either express or implied.(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.)
• Section 441.
  A statement in a policy of a matter relating to the person or thing insured, or to the risk, as a fact, is an express...
• Section 442.
  A particular form of words is not necessary to create a warranty.(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.)
• Section 443.
  Every express warranty made at or before the execution of a policy shall be contained in the policy itself, or in another instrument signed by...
• Section 444.
  A warranty may relate to the past, the present, the future, or to any or all of these.(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.)
• Section 445.
  A statement in a policy, which imports that there is an intention to do or not to do a thing which materially affects the risk,...
• Section 446.
  When, before the time arrives for the performance of a warranty relating to the future, a loss insured against happens, or performance becomes unlawful at...
• Section 447.
  The violation of a material warranty or other material provision of a policy, on the part of either party thereto, entitles the other to rescind.(Enacted...
• Section 448.
  Unless the policy declares that a violation of specified provisions thereof shall avoid it, the breach of an immaterial provision does not avoid the policy.(Enacted...
• Section 449.
  A breach of warranty without fraud merely exonerates an insurer from the time that it occurs, or where the warranty is broken in its inception,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018