Lennon v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• finding no question of fact as to whether the plaintiff had previously undergone surgery for cancer and had failed to disclose it to the insurer as part of his application
• applicant bound to report post-application cancer operation which could be the time when he first obtained knowledge of his having that disease
• applicant’s misrepresentation of the absence of cancer, although innocent, was compounded by his failure to report a subsequent operation to the insurer that did increase the risk of loss

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).