Calif. Panel Majority Says Personal Jurisdiction Does Not Exist Over Auto Insurer

(February 3, 2023, 4:17 PM EST) -- LOS ANGELES —The majority of the Second District California Court of Appeal agreed with a trial court that personal jurisdiction does not exist over an auto insurer named as a defendant in a breach of contract and bad faith suit because the plaintiff, who was involved in a car accident in California and was named as a covered driver on her parents’ Indiana auto policy, failed to show that the auto insurer engaged in any significant activities in California that would allow a California court to exercise jurisdiction over the insurer....