Lauer v. American Family Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a lung cancer diagnosis was material to a life insurer’s assessment of risk
• interpretation of statute by agency charged with the administration and enforcement of that statute must be given substantial deference
• interpretation of statute by agency charged with the administration and enforcement of that statute must be given substantial deference
• cancer diagnosis and chemotherapy treatment in the months before policy issuance was material to insurer’s risk

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).