Julien Pinette and Norma Pinette v. Assurance Company of America

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• finding that an insured has an affirmative duty to “inform himself of the content of the application signed by him, under penalty of being bound by the representations recorded therein” when an agent completes the application
• “Furthermore, Connecticut caselaw strongly suggests that an answer to a question on an insurance application is presumptively material.”
• “an applicant for insurance has the affirmative duty ‘to inform himself of the content of the application signed by him, under penalty of being bound by the representations as recorded therein’” (citation omitted)
• defining a “misrepresentation” as an “untrue statement” under Connecticut law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).