Nipper v. California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan

Opinion

RICHARDSON, J.

This case presents the question whether an insurance broker and an association of insurers providing assigned risk automobile insurance to an allegedly unqualified or incompetent driver may be held civilly liable for personal injuries sustained by third persons as a result of the insured’s negligent operation of a motor vehicle. Under these circumstances we conclude that liability is unwarranted and will affirm judgments of dismissal.

Plaintiff was injured in January 1973 when the pickup truck he was driving collided with a car driven by the insured, H. K. Warkentin.…