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).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• North Ottawa Community Hospital v. Kieft
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1998-05-19· cited 47×
• 21st Century Premier Insurance Company v. Zufelt
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2016-05-24· cited 47×
• Bazzi v. Sentinel Insurance Company
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2016-06-14· cited 26×
• Hammoud v. Metropolitan Property & Casualty Insurance
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1997-06-16· cited 20×
• Unencumbered Assets, Trust v. Great American Insurance
  S.D. Ohio· 2011-09-16· cited 10×
• Purry v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co.
  E.D. Michigan· 2018-10-30· cited 3×
• Habib Khadair Abbas Al-Adily v. Merrick B. Garland
  Sixth Circuit· 2023-03-30· cited 1×
• Reeves v. Granite State Ins. Co.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-09-17
• Elizabeth Ferguson v. MetLife Investors USA Ins. Co.
  Sixth Circuit· 2026-02-20

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United Security Insurance v. Commissioner of Insurance
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1984-03-20· cited 39×
• Cunningham v. Citizens Insurance Co. of America
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1984-04-02· cited 28×
• Katinsky v. Auto Club Ins. Ass'n
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1993-08-16· cited 18×