BEATY v. TRUCK INS. EXCHANGE

Docket No. C010475.

6 Cal.App.4th 1455 (1992)

8 Cal. Rptr.2d 593

LARRY BEATY et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. TRUCK INSURANCE EXCHANGE, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

May 29, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Feldman, Waldman & Kline, Paul J. Dion, Maureen A. Sheehy, Steven D. Rathfon and Joyce M. Norcini for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Waldman, Graham & Chuang, Waldman & Chuang and Craig H. Bell for Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

PUGLIA, P.J.

The issue presented is whether an insurer violates the Unruh Civil Rights Act (Civ. Code, § 51 et seq., hereafter referred to as the Unruh Act) when it refuses to offer a couple cohabitating in a homosexual relationship the same insurance policy and at the same premium it regularly offers to married couples. Plaintiffs Larry Beaty and Boyce Hinman applied to defendant Truck Insurance Exchange for a joint...

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