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Insurance Code § 1874.85

ARTICLE 4.5. Insurer Inspections

Current as of September 28, 2026Ins. Code, § 1874.85Official source ↗Ask about this

Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 664, Sec. 154. Effective January 1, 2003.

An insurer that issues automobile liability or collision policies shall inspect vehicles for which it has approved a claim for the cost of auto body repairs, either during the repair process or after the work has been completed, and the number of vehicles inspected shall be a statistical sampling sufficient to demonstrate to the department the insurer’s efforts to reduce fraudulent auto body work during a calendar year.