Sections
6 entriesSection 3287Allows prejudgment interest from the day a right to calculable damages vests, unless law or the creditor prevents payment, and permits discretionary…Section 3288Allows a jury, in its discretion, to award interest in an action for breach of an obligation not arising from contract and…Section 3289Sets a contract’s stipulated legal interest rate to continue after breach until a verdict or other new obligation supersedes the contract. For…Section 3289.5Defines, for purposes of the referenced interest provision, the contracted finance-charge rate in a covered retail installment contract as the legal rate…Section 3290Sets acceptance of payment of the entire principal, when accepted as principal, to waive every claim to interest. Once the whole principal…Section 3291Allows a personal-injury plaintiff who makes a qualifying settlement offer that the defendant does not accept before trial or within 30 days,…