A person insured by a contract of marine insurance is presumed to have, at the time of insuring, knowledge of a prior loss, if the information might possibly have reached him in the usual mode of transmission and at the usual rate of communication.
Cal. Ins. Code § 1902
Concealment and Representations—Rules Peculiar to Marine Insurance
Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.
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