LAWS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Life Insurance, Smallpox
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One must disclose all relevant information on making this contract, in order to be able to collect insurance should the circumstances arise that this is needed. If you are not absolutely truthful in the information you give the insurance contract, the insurance company can decline to pay out on your death. Whether we, acting for the insurance company, can call the doctor who treated mr bellamy to prove that he didn t disclose everything he should have in the initial screening interview he completed in order to obtain his life insurance. What the doctors saw when they treated mr lucena. What the doctors told him after an examination- communication by a doctor to a patient. What lucena told to a doctor after the examination. Lucena s estate- personal representative after his death- argued that this section in the 1908 evidence act that this evidence to be permissible in court. Shall not absolute and another requirement by the act.
