Ban: Dealing With (and Beating) CIGA as Co-Defendant

So the California Insurance Guarantee Association has joined you to a case (or filed a petition for reimbursement and/or change of administrator). CIGA is demanding reimbursement and insisting that your client take over the case, including administering benefits, discovery and medical treatment. What now? How do you assess the strength of CIGA's arguments? What is CIGA? First off, CIGA is a unique entity: It is a legally mandated association of insurers created by California Insurance Code section 1063. It is not a simple "successor in interest" that takes over t...