The fund shall not be liable for any of the following:

(a) Any loss arising out of a dishonest, fraudulent, criminal, or intentional act of a foster parent.

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Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 1527.3

  • Aircraft: includes , but is not limited to, any airplane, glider, or hot air balloon. See California Health and Safety Code 1527
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Bodily injury: means any bodily injury, sickness, or disease sustained by any person including death at any time resulting therefrom. See California Health and Safety Code 1527
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Foster parent: means the person, and including their spouse if the spouse is a resident of the same household, providing care, custody, and control of a foster child in a licensed foster family home or licensed small family home, as defined in Section 1502, or, on and after January 1, 2019, a resource family, as defined in §. See California Health and Safety Code 1527
  • Motor vehicle: means an automobile, motorcycle, moped, midget automobile, including the type commonly referred to as a kart, go-kart, speedmobile, or by a comparable name whether commercially built or otherwise, trailer or semitrailer designed for travel on public roads, including any machinery or apparatus attached thereto, or snowmobile. See California Health and Safety Code 1527
  • Occurrence: means an accident, including continuous or repeated exposure to conditions, which results in bodily injury or personal injury neither expected nor intended by the foster parent. See California Health and Safety Code 1527
  • Watercraft: includes , but is not limited to, any boat, ship, raft, or canoe, whether motorized or not. See California Health and Safety Code 1527

(b) Any occurrence that does not arise from the foster-care relationship.

(c) Any bodily injury arising out of the operation or use of any motor vehicle, aircraft, or watercraft owned or operated by, or rented or loaned to, any foster parent.

(d) Any loss arising out of licentious, immoral, or sexual behavior on the part of a foster parent intended to lead to, or culminating in, any sexual act.

(e) Any allegation of alienation of affection against a foster parent.

(f) Any loss or damage arising out of occurrences prior to October 1, 1986.

(g) Exemplary damages.

(h) Any liability of a foster parent that is uninsured due solely to the foster parent’s failure to obtain insurance specified in § 676.7 of the Insurance Code. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to expand the liability of the fund with respect to insured foster parents.

(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 494, Sec. 2. (SB 522) Effective January 1, 2014.)