Wilkins v. National Life & Accident Insurance
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action on insurance policy; from Floyd superior court—Judge Wright. February 15, 1918.
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, J.
1. Where answers to questions in an application for life or accident insurance, which form the basis of the contract, are not prepared and entered for the applicant by the soliciting and forwarding agent of the insurer, but are made and entered by the applicant himself, who warrants them to be true, and where such application is attached to and made a part of the policy, any material variation as to any of such answers, whereby the nature or character or extent of the risk is changed, will avoid the policy, whether the statement was in good faith or was wilfully and fraudhlently made. Supreme…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Insurance Co. v. WilkinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- New York Life Insurance v. FletcherSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Lumber Underwriters of NY v. RifeSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- German American Mutual Life Ass'n v. FarleySupreme Court of Georgia · 1897
- Johnson v. American National Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Georgia · 1910
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- Curry v. Washington National InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1937
- Puckett v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1924
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