CALIFORNIA INS. GUARANTEE ASSOCIATION v. AZAR

Nos. 17-56526 17-56528.

940 F.3d 1061 (2019)

CALIFORNIA INSURANCE GUARANTEE ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. Alex M. AZAR II, Secretary of Health and Human Services; U.S. Department of Health & Human Services; Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 10, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Tenny (argued) and Alisa B. Klein , Appellate Staff; Nicola T. Hanna , United States Attorney; Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

Steven T. Whitmer (argued), Hugh S. Balsam , and Julie L. Young , Locke Lord LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

Benjamin F. Aiken , Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Washington, D.C.; John Blatt , National Conference of Insurance Guaranty Funds, Indianapolis, Indiana; Thomas Welsh , Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Sacramento, California; for Amicus Curiae National Conference of Insurance Guaranty Funds.

Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Diane S. Shaw , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Lisa W. Chao , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Laura E. Robbins , Deputy Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Los Angeles, California; for Amicus Curiae Dave Jones, Insurance Commissioner of the State of California.

Before: Jacqueline H. Nguyen and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges, and Michael M. Baylson, District Judge.


OPINION

California requires insurers providing certain types of coverage to participate in the California Insurance Guarantee Association ("CIGA"), which provides funding when a member insurer becomes insolvent and unable to pay its insureds' claims. State law prohibits CIGA from reimbursing state and federal government...

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