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A commercial event planner applies for a business liability insurance policy. On the application, she inadvertently leaves a question regarding prior cancelled policies completely blank. The insurer's underwriting department receives the incomplete application, processes it without requesting the missing information, and issues the contract. Six months later, a claim is filed and the insurer discovers the planner had a previously cancelled policy. The insurer's voluntary act of accepting the incomplete application and giving up its right to demand the missing information before policy issuance is an example of which legal concept?

  1. WaiverCevap
  2. B
    Estoppel
  3. C
    The doctrine of adhesion
  4. D
    Apparent authority

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The correct answer is Waiver.
The correct answer is Waiver because it perfectly defines the insurer's deliberate and voluntary choice to issue the policy without requiring the missing information. By doing so, the insurer relinquished its known right to have a completed application prior to assuming the risk.

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1
Analyze the scenario to identify the specific action being questioned.
The action is the insurer deliberately issuing a policy despite the applicant leaving a question completely blank.
Identifying the exact action separates the insurer's initial behavior from the subsequent legal consequences during the claims process.
2
Determine the legal term for voluntarily giving up a known right.
By issuing the policy without the information, the insurer voluntarily gave up its right to that information, which is defined as a waiver.
In insurance law, accepting an incomplete application and acting upon it constitutes an intentional relinquishment of the right to demand complete information.
3
Distinguish the act from its consequence.
The act of giving up the right is the waiver, whereas the court preventing the insurer from denying a later claim based on that missing info would be estoppel.
It is critical to separate the voluntary act (waiver) from the legal enforcement that follows (estoppel).

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