What is the case law on "right to elect the most economical method of paying claims"?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Baldwin v. AAA N. Cal., A142217 (Cal. App. 2016):

insurer] the right to elect the most economical method of paying claims," the court concluded, and it declined to rewrite that "unambiguous limitation of collision coverage to provide for a risk not bargained for." (Id. at p. 1418; see, e.g., Rosen v. State Farm General Ins. Co., supra, 30 Cal.4th at p. 1078 [declining to rewrite a standard insurance policy as doing so might compel "insurers to give more than they promised and might allow insureds to get more than they paid for"].)

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