1080 REVIEW DENIED Fire insurance policy language requiring disputes to be resolved by a panel of "independent" appraisers must yield to the language of the Insurance Code, which specifies resolution by "disinterested" appraisers, and so the carrier which issued the policy may not designate an appraiser it regularly uses as an expert witness and with whom it has an ongoing pecuniary relationship.CitationGEBERS v STATE FARM (Disinterested Appraiser) 38 CA4 1648 [See: InsC 2071; Figi v New Hampshire Ins 108 CA3 772]
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