Liberty National Life Insurance Co. v. White

I conclude that the trial court erred by submitting the fraudulent-suppression claim regarding the reduced-death-benefit policy to the jury. White testified that she had the policies in her possession but that she never read them. The policies contained the information White alleges Liberty National suppressed; therefore, White is precluded from asserting a fraudulent-suppression claim.

“If one receives from a defendant documents that put [her] on notice of the very facts alleged to have been suppressed, then that defendant cannot have suppressed those facts. See, e.g., Robinson v. JMIC Life…