California Insurance Code ARTICLE 1 - Generally

• Section 12919.
  Communications to the commissioner or any person in his office in respect to any fact concerning the holder of, or applicant for, any certificate or...
• Section 12920.
  The commissioner shall determine the sufficiency and validity of all securities required to be given by persons engaged, or to be engaged, in insurance business,...
• Section 12920.5.
  In addition to and independent of any and all other proper causes for refusal by the commissioner to approve or accept any bond filed or...
• Section 12921.
  (a) The commissioner shall perform all duties imposed upon him or her by the provisions of this code and other laws regulating the business of insurance...
• Section 12921.1.
  (a) The commissioner shall establish a program on or before July 1, 1991, to investigate complaints and respond to inquiries received pursuant to Section 12921.3, to...
• Section 12921.15.
  (a) On or before July 1, 1999, the commissioner shall prepare a written report, to be made available by the department to interested individuals upon written...
• Section 12921.2.
  All public records of the department and the commissioner subject to disclosure under Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1...
• Section 12921.3.
  (a) The commissioner, in person or through employees of the department, shall receive complaints and inquiries, investigate complaints, prosecute insurers or production agencies when appropriate and...
• Section 12921.4.
  (a) The commissioner shall, upon receipt of a written complaint with respect to the handling of an insurance claim or other obligation under a policy by...
• Section 12921.5.
  The commissioner may in person or through employees of the division meet with persons, organizations and associations interested in insurance for the purpose of securing...
• Section 12921.6.
  (a) (1) If no fee is designated in this code for the review of filings required to be made pursuant to this code, the commissioner may establish...
• Section 12921.7.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the following shall apply to the adoption by the commissioner of any regulation as an emergency regulation pursuant to...
• Section 12921.8.
  (a) The commissioner may do the following:(1) Issue a cease and desist order to a person who has acted in a capacity for which a license, registration,...
• Section 12921.9.
  (a) A letter or legal opinion signed by the Commissioner or the Chief Counsel of the Department of Insurance that was prepared in response to an...
• Section 12922.
  The commissioner shall, on or before the first day of August in each year, make a report to the Governor, the Legislature, and to the...
• Section 12923.
  (a) With respect to all classes of insurance (1) to (20), inclusive, as defined in Sections 101 to 120, inclusive, “actuary,” for the purposes of this...
• Section 12923.5.
  (a) The Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance shall maintain a joint senior level working group to ensure clarity for health care...
• Section 12924.
  (a) The commissioner may issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum for witnesses to attend, testify and produce documents before him, on any subject touching insurance business,...
• Section 12925.
  The commissioner shall keep and preserve in a permanent form a full record of his proceedings, including a concise statement of the condition of each...
• Section 12926.
  The commissioner shall require from every insurer a full compliance with all the provisions of this code.(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.)
• Section 12926.1.
  (a) In any matter involving compliance with or enforcement of any of the provisions of this code or the other laws of this state involving any...
• Section 12926.2.
  (a) As used in this section, “extraordinary circumstances” means circumstances outside of the control of a licensee that severely and materially affect the licensee’s ability to...
• Section 12927.
  All statements, estimates, percentages, payments, and calculations, required by this code to be made, either by the commissioner or insurers, shall be made on the...
• Section 12928.
  Whenever the commissioner ascertains that any insurer or any of its agents, officers or employees or any other person is guilty of violating any of...
• Section 12928.5.
  Whenever facts exist by reason of which, under any provision of this code, or other laws the commissioner may suspend, revoke, or deny any license...
• Section 12928.6.
  Whenever the commissioner believes, from evidence satisfactory to him, that any person is violating or about to violate any provisions of this code or any...
• Section 12929.
  Irrespective of any provision in any law of this state the commissioner, pursuant to this code, has been and is authorized to correct: by amendment,...
• Section 12930.
  Offenses under this code, or under other laws relating to insurers, shall be prosecuted and tried in all respects as provided in the Penal Code...
• Section 12931.
  (a) Service of legal process, notices or other papers described in or referred to by Section 1452, 1605, 1610, 1612, 1659, 1660, 11104 or 11105 may...
• Section 12935.
  (a) The commissioner, by January 1, 1997, shall develop and make available to the general public, in the two most common non-English languages spoken in the...
• Section 12936.
  (a) (1) Escheated funds deposited in the Insurance Fund pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1523 of the Code of Civil Procedure shall be transferred to the...
• Section 12937.
  (a) Escheated funds deposited in the Insurance Fund pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1517 of the Code of Civil Procedure shall be available for expenditure...
• Section 12938.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall make available for public inspection and publish on its Internet Web site all of the information...

Last modified: October 22, 2018