Rhode v. Metropolitan Life-Insurance’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

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1. ““ In each of these cases the plaintiff offered, affirmative testimony to show that the treatment of the physician was for some temporary indisposition. Neither of the cases held that it is not sufficient, prima facie, to show a breach of a warranty such as that involved in this case, to prove that the insured had in fact been attended by a physician. Indeed, to so hold would be doing violence to the very terms of the stipulation; and, when the defendant in this case was prepared to show that the deceased had, within two years prior to the making of this application, been attended by one or more physicians, this was prima facie a breach of his contract, and the burden would be upon the plaintiff to show that the attendance was not for any ailment which tended to weaken or undermine his health seriously.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bullock v. Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York