California Court of Appeal

An insurer may, under Insurance Code sections 331 and 359, rescind a fire insurance policy based on an insured's negligent or unintentional misrepresentation of a material fact in an insurance application, notwithstanding the willful misrepresentation clause included in the required standard fire insurance policy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/08/2005
• Published 03/08/2005

Judges

• MOSK, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Law Office of Mann & Elias;  Imad Y. Elias, Beverly Hills, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nielsen, Haley & Abbott LLP;  James C. Nielsen, San Francisco, August L. Lohuaru, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Respondent.