Block v. Voyager Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “where the party plaintiff named in a complaint is not a legal entity but is reasonably recognizable as a misnomer for a legal entity which is the real party plaintiff, the misnomer may be corrected by amendment”
• holding that “where the party plain t iff named in a complain t is not a legal entity but is reasonably recognizable as a misnomer for a legal entity which is the real party plaintiff, the misnomer may be corrected by amendment”
• addressing misnomer of parties on the right to amend a previously filed action because a legal entity is the actual party in interest
• allowing amendment to substitute the legal representative of the estate as the proper party plaintiff in place of the estate
• applicant for insurance under no duty to disclose specific health information if not requested by insurer
• even where the named plaintiff is not a legal entity but is reasonably recognizable as a misnomer for the real party plaintiff, the misnomer may be corrected by amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).