United Insurance Co. of America v. Hodges

Sognier, Judge.

Betty J. Hodges, as beneficiary of an insurance policy issued on the life of her father, filed a complaint against United Insurance Company of America (United) seeking to recover on the policy. The trial court denied United’s motion for summary judgment and we granted this interlocutory appeal.

United contends that summary judgment was incorrectly denied and that it is not obligated to pay on the policy. United argues that Hodges, in applying for the policy in her father’s name, failed to disclose that he had been hospitalized recently for hypertension and had the state of her…