Sanford

BACKGROUND

The fire and initial insurance payments This case stems from a residential fire that occurred November 3, 2014, and destroyed appellants’ home. Appellants had hired K-Mac to re-roof the property on September 20, 2014, and they believed that K-Mac’s workers caused the fire.1 At the

Appellants’ opening brief violates California Rules of Court, rule 8.204(a)(1)(C), which requires a party to “[s]upport any reference to a matter in the record by a citation to the volume and page number of the record where the matter appears.” Instead of citing a precise page number for each fact stated in their opening brief appellants have cited their entire declarations to support each separate point—for a total of nearly 370 pages cited for each fact stated. This court is not required to parse through “block page reference[s]” such as those offered by appellants in order to find the relevant supporting factual information. (Bernard v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co. (1991) 226 Cal.App.3d 1203, 1205.) Appropriate reference to the record includes “providing exact page citations.” (Ibid.) We therefore rely mainly on the factual summaries provided by respondents.

2 time of the loss…