California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Reserve Ins. Co. v. Universal Underwriters Ins. Co., 13 Cal.App.3d 656, 92 Cal.Rptr. 137 (Cal. App. 1970):
In Bohrn v. State Farm etc. Ins. Co., supra, appellant argues [226 Cal.App.2d, at p. 500, 38 Cal.Rptr. 77] that an insurance company has the right to insure and select its risks and to decline risks. The court said (id.) that such proposition can be accepted generally as a correct statement of law, and that an insurance company has the right to limit the coverage of a policy issued by it. The court then said (p. 501, 38 Cal.Rptr. p. 79): 'However, any such linitation must conform to the law; if contrary to public policy it is void.'
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