Legal Opinion
20th Century Insurance v. Quackenbush
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 22, 1998No. A079667PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
STEIN, Acting P. J.
20th Century Insurance Company and 21st Century Casualty Company appeal from a judgment sustaining a demurrer to their petition for writ of mandate. The trial court held that Charles Quackenbush, the Commissioner of Insurance of the State of California (Commissioner) did not exceed his statutory authority when he publicly disseminated his response to a homeowner’s inquiry concerning the application of the statute of limitations to claims for damage caused by the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Facts
On April 28, 1997, the Commissioner replied by letter to an inquiry from…
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