BILL NUMBER: AB 1214	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nava

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section 10053 to the Insurance Code, relating to
fire insurance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1214, as introduced, Nava. Fire insurance: underwriters' corps:
liability.
   Existing law authorizes any domestic corporation of insurance
underwriters to maintain an underwriter's corps. Under existing law,
an underwriter's corps is defined as a group of persons with officers
and equipment, maintained to discover and prevent fires and to save
life and property from fire. Under existing case law, an employer can
be held liable for the tortious or criminal acts of employees
committed within the course and scope of employment.
   This bill would state that an insurance company employing a
private firefighting company shall be liable for injury to a 3rd
party caused by a civil or criminal act or omission of the
firefighting company committed within the course and scope of the
work for which the insurance company contracted with the firefighting
company.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 10053 is added to the Insurance Code, to read:
   10053.  Any insurance company admitted to do business in
California that employs a private firefighting company for purposes
of providing emergency response services shall be liable for injury
to a third party or damage to property from a criminal or civil act
or omission of the company committed within the course and scope of
the work contracted for with that private firefighting company.