Guam § 15401 - Action To Recover Insurance, What Defendant
Full text of Guam Guam Code Annotated § 15401 — Action To Recover Insurance, What Defendant, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 15401. Action To Recover Insurance, What Defendant
Claiming Exemption Must Set Up.
In an action to recover upon a contract of insurance wherein
the defendant claims exemption from liability upon the ground that,
although the proximate cause of the loss was a peril insured against,
the loss was remotely caused by or would not have occurred but for
a peril excepted in the contract of insurance, the defendant shall in
his answer set forth and specify the peril which was the proximate
cause of the loss, in what manner the peril excepted contributed to
the loss or itself caused the peril insured against, and if he claims
that the peril excepted caused the peril insured against, he shall in
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his answer set forth and specify upon what premises or at what place
the peril excepted caused the peril insured against.
Source: official Guam text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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What does Guam Code Annotated § 15401 cover?
Section 15401 ("Action To Recover Insurance, What Defendant") is part of the Guam Code Annotated, the codified statutory law of Guam. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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