Dr. Martin Manzella, Jr. v. The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company

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• held that in order for the applicant’s misrepresentations to be ma terial, it is not necessary that they increase the underwriting risk involved so long as they affect the decision of the insurer to issue the policy
• disability insured’s failure to disclose another policy “did not increase the risk that he would become disabled” but did “affect the acceptance of the risk” because “an overinsured person has a strong inducement not to return to work”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).