By Natasha L. Rao, Collins Einhorn Farrell PC
(May 2023 through August 2023)
Material misrepresentation in the application process supports the rescission of an insurance policy.
Wolverine Mutual Insurance Company v Van Dyken
Unpublished per curiam opinion by the Court of Appeals, issued June 8, 2023
(Docket No. 359339), 2023 WL 5281855.
This case arises out of the rescission of an insurance policy by the insurance company. In September 2018, Van Dyken (the applicant) applied for a no-fault policy from Wolverine Mutual Insurance Company (the insurer) with the assistance of an independent insurance agent. In that process, the insurance agent represented that the applicant had not been “arrested or convicted for other than traffic violation in the last 5 years[.]”
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