Legal Opinion
Fremont Compensation Insurance v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided April 23, 1996No. G017435PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SILLS, P. J.
The nub of this case is whether relatively recent legislation to deter workers’ compensation fraud left insurers with less protection to report insurance fraud to police and prosecutors than they had before the legislation was enacted. The answer is no.
The legislation resulted in the addition of section 1877.5 to the Insurance Code in 1991. (See Stats. 1991, ch. 116, § 19.) Section 1877.5 affords insurers a qualified, immunity to report workers’ compensation fraud to a local prosecutor or the Department of Insurance. The qualified immunity does not extend to reports made in…
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