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p0354 REVIEW DENIED A section of the Insurance Code permitting insurers to bring qui tam claims against persons committing insurance fraud but prohibiting such claims by an insurer who learned of the fraud by way of public disclosures made in a civil hearing or in the media does not prevent a qui tam action by an insurer after another insurer's qui tam action inspired it to research its own files and discover instances of fraud by some of the same persons who had defrauded the insurer that brought the first action.CitationPEO ex rel ALLSTATE v WEITZMAN (Insurance Fraud) 107 CA4 534 [See: InsC 1871.7; Richards v CH2M 26 C4 798, T/AT 9/01]
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