Burton v. Wolverine Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an insurer may rescind a policy ab initio upon discovering a material misrepresentation regardless of whether the discovery occurs before or after the loss
• observing that insurers may rescind an insurance contract due to a material misrepresentation in an insurance application
• “We have no dispute with the general proposition that an insurer may rescind a policy ab initio because of a material misrepresentation in the application for insurance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).