Appellate Court of Illinois· 12/10/1998

Brandt v. Time Insurance

Citations

704 N.E.2d 843
302 Ill. App. 3d 159
235 Ill. Dec. 270

How courts have described this case

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recognizing that “Illinois law imposes no duty on an insurer to conduct an independent investigation of insurability before issuing an insurance policy”
holding that requirement in section 154 of the Insurance Code that a copy of the application be attached to a policy before an insurer could rely on a misrepresentation contained therein to avoid the policy, became an implied term of the insurance policy
statutory provisions governing insurance policies that were in effect when a policy was issued are treated as part of the policy
“By entering into a contract, and by not excluding or modifying the effects of the various laws, the contracting parties are deemed to have accepted these laws as part of their agreement.”
“it has long been the law in Illinois that an insurer has no general duty to investigate the truthfulness of answers given to questions on an application for insurance”
“By entering into a contract, and by not excluding or modifying the effects of the various laws, the contracting parties are deemed to have accepted these laws as part of their agreement.”

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Judges: Hoffman, Wolfson

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