NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
ROSE JOHANSEN, Plaintiff - Appellee,
v. AMERICAN GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant - Appellant. No. 12-56937 D.C. No. 2:11-cv-06668-SJO-FFM
MEMORANDUM *

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California S. James Otero, District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted October 7, 2014 Pasadena, California Before: HAWKINS and GRABER, Circuit Judges, and SEDWICK, ** District Judge. Rose Johansen appeals the district c ourt’s grant of summary judgment in favor of American General Life Insurance Comp any (“American General”), dismissing her 

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OCT 15 2014 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
** The Honorable John W. Sedwick, United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, sitting by designation.claims relating to two life insurance po licies owned by her late husband, Gordon Johansen. We review the district court’s grant of summary judgment de novo
. Travelers Cas. & Sur. Co. of Am. v. Brenneke , 551 F.3d 1132, 1137 (9th Cir. 2009). We affirm. The undisputed evidence shows that (1) Gordon Johansen’s life insurance policies lapsed due to non-payment of premiu ms prior to his death, and (2) American General satisfied the notice pr ovisions of the policies. See Quackenbush v. Omnicor, Inc. (In re First Capital Life Ins. Co.) , 40 Cal. Rptr. 2d 816, 821 (Ct. App. 1995) (summary judgment appropriate where undi sputed facts showed policy had lapsed prior to death of insured); Scott v. Fed. Life Ins. Co. , 19 Cal. Rptr. 258, 262 (Dist. Ct. App. 1962) (express provision that default in payment renders the policy void or causes it to lapse is valid and a default in payment ordinarily forfeits the policy where statutory provisions are not violated). Any alleged failure by American General to comply with California Insurance Code sections 500 and 791.10 doe s not render the lapse of either policy ineffective because those code provisions do not apply to these circumstances. Indeed, section 500, which requires an insurance company to notify its insureds of the company’s intent to discontinue a regular practice of sending renewal premium notices, does not apply when, as here, an insured has specifically requested that the insurance company
2stop sending premium notices. See Cal. Ins. Code § 500 (applying to insurer’s decision to discontinue practice of sending renewal premium notices); cf. Stewart v. Life Ins. Co. of N. Am. , 388 F. Supp. 2d 1138, 1143 (E.D. Cal. 2005) (order) (applying Cal. Ins. Code § 500 to insurer’s unilateral decision to disc ontinue practice of sending premium notices). Similarly, section 791.10, which requires an insurance company to provide certain notices in the event of an “a dverse underwriting deci sion,” does not apply when, as here, an insurance policy laps es due to non-payment of premiums. See Cal. Ins. Code § 791.10(a) (applying to “adverse underwriting decision”); id. § 791.02(a)(1) (defining “adverse underwriting decision” to include “termination” or “declination” of coverage); id. § 791.02(x) (defining “termination” as the cancellation or non-renewal of a policy “for any reason other than the failure to pay a premium as required by the policy”). AFFIRMED.

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