Shapiro v. American Home Assurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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• material facts include statements that mislead underwriter as to nature of risk or that heighten risk being insured against
• “there is no dispute of fact over whether Shapiro’s misrepresentation concerned matters that increased the risk of loss under the D&O policy”
• “We, therefore, find no basis in Shapiro for making an exception here to the Massachusetts requirement that a plaintiff seeking recovery in [common law] fraud must prove reliance on the misrepresentations made.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).