SACRAMENTO — The Civil Justice Association of California (CJAC) today announced the introduction of a bill that will carve out a piece of lawsuit bureaucracy and help to facilitate settlements.
Assembly Bill 470, authored by Assemblyman Roger Niello (R-Fair Oaks) and sponsored by CJAC, makes it possible for an insurance company to give a copy of a police or accident report directly to an insured person’s lawyer instead of going through the insured. The Insurance Code does not now allow this.
However, existing law in other California codes already permits the insured’s lawyer to obtain a copy of the police report.
The change will allow settlements to proceed more quickly and will assist in reducing the number of cases in the courts.
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