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FREMONT COMP. INS. CO. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. G017435.

44 Cal.App.4th 867 (1996)

52 Cal. Rptr.2d 211

FREMONT COMPENSATION INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ORANGE COUNTY, Respondent; MARAPPA V. GOPINATH et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

April 23, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Knapp, Petersen & Clarke, Paul Woolls and Antoinette S. Waller for Petitioners.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Timothy G. Laddish, Assistant Attorney General, Jacqueline A. Schauer, James M. Robbins and Jerome M. Jackson as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Wylie A. Aitken and Annee Della Donna for Real Parties in Interest.

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...

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