Utica Mutual Insurance v. Stockdale Agency

How courts have described this case

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• looking to the surrounding facts and circumstances to determine whether an intent to defraud existed
• looking only to the application question, and no other documentation or evidence, to determine whether the terms used in the application were ambiguous
• the second element of equitable estoppel is a lack of knowledge of the true facts on the part of the actor, here L & L
• “extrinsic evidence refers to evidence other than the words of the policy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).