PEOPLE v. UNITED NATIONAL LIFE INS. CO.

Docket Nos. L.A. 28843, 28844, 28845.

66 Cal.2d 577 (1967)

427 P.2d 199

58 Cal. Rptr. 599

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. UNITED NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant and Respondent. THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. PIONEER LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant and Respondent. THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. NATIONAL LIBERTY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant and Respondent. (Consolidated Cases.)

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 4, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, and H. Warren Siegel, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

O'Melveny & Myers, Warren M. Christopher, William W. Vaughn, Girard E. Boudreau, Jr., Beardsley, Hufstedler & Kemble, Seth M. Hufstedler and John Sobieski for Defendants and Respondents.

Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl, Richard E. Nolan, Charles S. Hoppin and J. Anthony Kline as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


SULLIVAN, J.

[1] We hold in these consolidated cases that California can constitutionally regulate insurance transactions of foreign insurance companies which, although they have no agents in this state, solicit and negotiate such transactions with California residents exclusively by mail from offices outside this state. [2] Additionally we conclude that foreign insurers engaging in such activities are subject to the provisions of section...

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