P. v. United States Fire Insurance CA4/3
A comparatively new statute in California’s bail bond scheme, Penal Code section 1305.6, adopted in 2012, requires courts to set aside summary judgments entered against bail bond companies in situations where the absconding defendant has been arrested outside the county in which the bailed case is pending. The kicker is that section 1305.6 requires “good cause” as a prerequisite for such a belated, post-summary judgment, request. So far, two published opinions, People v. Accredited Surety Casualty Co. (2014) 230 Cal.App.4th 548 (Accredited 2014) and People v. Financial Casualty & Surety, Inc. (2017) 14 Cal.App.5th 308 (Financial Casualty 2017) have explored the quantum of effort on the part of the bail bond surety – in practice, usually the surety’s bail agent – which makes for good cause.
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