National Life & Casualty Insurance v. Blankenbiller

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• incontestability clause gives the insurer a reasonable period of time to investigate and protect its rights
• incontestability bars defenses going to the invalidity of the policy but not defenses relating to excluded risks
• “The majority rule is that every exception to incontestability not expressed in the statute itself is specifically barred as a defense to the policy after the expiration of the incontestability period”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).