Edgar M. Skinner, Esther Skinner v. Aetna Life and Casualty

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a provision using the phrase “to the best of [the insured’s] knowledge and belief’ “must be assessed in the light of [the insured’s] actual knowledge and belief’
• ”[T]he false statement must have been made with an intent to deceive or must materially affect the acceptance of the risk or hazard assumed by the company.”
• “ ‘What the applicant in fact believed to be true is the determining factor in judging the truth or falsity of his answer, but only so far as that belief is not clearly contradicted by the factual knowledge on which it is based.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).