The falsity of any statement in the application for any policy covered by this chapter may not bar the right to recovery under the policy unless the false statement materially affected either the acceptance of the risk or the hazard assumed by the insurer.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-18-16
False statements in application
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Commercial Union Insurance v. Pesante (2006)
Most recently applied in Thomas Demarco v. Sean Robert Stoddard, D.P.m(073949) (December 2015)
P.L. 1956, ch. 3808, § 5; G.L. 1956, § 27-18-16.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Rhode Island General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Rhode Island statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.