Cal. Insurance Code § 1039

In lieu of the service required by section 1038, service may, upon application to said court, be made in such manner as the court directs whenever it is satisfactorily shown by affidavit (a) in the case of a corporation, that the officers of the corporation upon whom service is required to be made as above provided, have departed from the State or keep themselves concealed therein with intent to avoid the service, or, (b) in the case of a Lloyd’s association or interinsurance exchange, that the individual attorney in fact or the officers of the corporate attorney in fact can not be served because of such departure or concealment, or, (c) in the case of a natural person, that the natural person upon whom service is required to be made as above provided, has departed from the State or keeps himself concealed therein with intent to avoid the service.