Sections
6 entriesSection 431.10Defines a material pleading allegation as one essential to a claim or defense that cannot be stricken without making it insufficient. Defines…Section 431.20Establishes that every material allegation in a complaint or cross-complaint that the answer does not controvert is taken as true for purposes…Section 431.30Requires an answer to deny disputed material allegations and state new defensive matter, while prohibiting affirmative relief in the answer. A general…Section 431.40Allows a defendant, when the demand or property value excluding interest does not exceed $1,000, to file a general written denial and…Section 431.50Requires an insurer defendant claiming that an excluded peril remotely caused, contributed to, or caused the covered peril behind a loss to…Section 431.70Allows a defendant to assert qualifying historical cross-demands for money as a payment defense even when an independent action on the cross-demand…