LaCount v. United Insurance Co. of America

Evans, Judge.

This case involves a suit on a life insurance contract wherein United Insurance Company of America issued a policy of life insurance for $1,000 on the life of Mary W. LaCount on July 9, 1973, payable to her son, Harold, as beneficiary.

On January 31,1974, while said policy was allegedly in full force and effect, insured died. The insurer refused to pay contending the insured had not disclosed in a written application certain information as to her previous physical condition and had the insurer known of the condition it would not have issued its policy.

Harold LaCount, the…