Judge: Insurer Will ‘Quibble’ With Analysis In $2M Life Policy Ruling For Spouse

( October 7, 2024, 9:06 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A Washington state federal judge denied a life insurer’s motion for summary judgment but granted a cross-motion for summary judgment by a decedent’s spouse and beneficiary of the decedent’s $2 million life insurance policy, finding that though the insurer “will quibble with” the interpretation of the policy application where the insured answered “no” to questions about visiting his physician but did visit his dentist, “there is no dispute that ‘physician’ is at least ‘fairly susceptible’ to two interpretations” in the insurer’s suit seeking to rescind the policy due to the insured’s purported  material misrepresentations....