Berger v. Manhattan Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where applicant was hospitalized with hepatic encephalopathy between time he completed insurance application and delivery of policy, condition precedent was not satisfied and “no insurance policy ever came into effect”
• “Plaintiff has presented no facts which suggest that it was ever [Defendant’s] intent to waive any of its rights or defenses.... ”
• “[H]e was suffering from hepatic encephalopathy, a liver disorder exhibited by neural effects on the brain resulting from accumulation of blood toxins not cleared by a malfunctioning liver[.]”

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