Pahigian v. Manufacturers' Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• finding no evidence to dispute that plaintiff died of Hodgkin’s disease that he had failed to disclose to the insurer, and that the record was “replete with uncontested evidence of the seriousness of Hodgkin’s disease.”
• “Where the insurer fails to attach a correct copy, it cannot rely in an action against it on the policy, on misstatements in the application as a defence”
• failure to give truthful answers deprived insurer of opportunity to undertake further investigation
• misrepresentations as to certain diseases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).