BILL NUMBER: AB 3057	CHAPTERED  07/10/08

	CHAPTER  107
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 10, 2008
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 10, 2008
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 26, 2008
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 8, 2008

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Insurance (Coto (Chair), Benoit (Vice
Chair), Berg, Charles Calderon, Carter, Duvall, Garrick, Lieber, and
Parra)

                        FEBRUARY 28, 2008

   An act to amend Sections 651 and 11622 of the Insurance Code,
relating to insurance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 3057, Committee on Insurance. Insurance: vehicles.
   Existing law provides that whenever an insurer gives notice of
rescission of an automobile liability policy, upon request of the
driver, as defined, the insurer, within 15 days of receipt of the
request, shall furnish to the insured a statement setting forth the
ground or grounds upon which the notice of rescission is based.
   This bill would delete an obsolete cross-reference in this
provision.
   Existing law provides that assigned risk automobile plans must
afford coverage, as specified, or in such minimum amounts as are set
forth in specified security requirement provisions.
   This bill would change an obsolete cross-reference in this
provision.



THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 651 of the Insurance Code is amended to read:
   651.  Whenever an insurer gives notice of rescission of an
automobile liability policy, upon request of the driver, the insurer,
within 15 days of receipt of the request, shall furnish to the
insured a statement setting forth the ground or grounds upon which
the notice of rescission is based. There shall be no liability on the
part of, and no cause of action shall arise against, any insurer or
authorized representative, or its licensed investigative sources, for
any statements made by them in a written notice required to be given
pursuant to this section. If the insurer fails to comply with the
provisions of this section, the insured may apply to the commissioner
for a certificate of the facts or information desired. Any such
request shall be made in accordance with Article 3 (commencing with
Section 12950) of Chapter 2 of Division 3, and the commissioner shall
exercise any power conferred upon him by that article as may be
necessary to ensure compliance with this section.
  SEC. 2.  Section 11622 of the Insurance Code is amended to read:
   11622.  Such plan shall require the issuance of a policy affording
coverage in the amount of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for
bodily injury to or death of each person as a result of any one
accident and, subject to said limit as to one person, the amount of
thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for bodily injury to or death of
all persons as a result of any one accident, and the amount of five
thousand dollars ($5,000) for damage to property of others as a
result of any one accident, or in such minimum amounts as are
necessary to provide exemption from the security requirements of
Section 16021 of the Vehicle Code or for which proof of ability to
respond in damages or adequate protection against liability is
otherwise required by law, but shall not require the issuance of a
policy affording coverage in excess of said amounts.