Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog

Tapping Corporate Predecessors’ Liability Insurance Policies Just Became Easier Following Fluor Ruling, Westlaw Journal Insurance Coverage, volume 26, issue 2
October 15, 2015

In a landmark decision, the California Supreme Court on August 20, 2015, held that enforcing an anti-assignment clause in an insurance policy as a bar to coverage – where the assignment occurred post-loss – was contrary to California Insurance Code Section 520, which provides that consent-to-assignment clauses are invalid if invoked after a loss has happened.  See Fluor Corp. v. Superior Court ...