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A corporation applies for a key person life insurance policy on its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The corporate president signs the application as the policyowner, and the CFO signs as the proposed insured. Prior to submission, the producer notices that a question regarding the CFO's past aviation activity was left completely blank. The producer submits the application without making any modifications. The insurer inadvertently issues and delivers the policy without requesting completion of the blank section. If the CFO dies in a private aviation accident eight months later, which of the following accurately describes the insurer's legal obligation?

  1. The insurer must pay the death benefit because issuing the policy with an unanswered question constitutes a waiver of its right to evaluate that specific risk.Cevap
  2. B
    The insurer may deny the claim because the producer possessed the implied authority to unilaterally complete the blank response prior to submission.
  3. C
    The insurer may deny the claim because an application submitted with unanswered questions should have been returned, rendering the issued contract legally void.
  4. D
    The insurer may delay paying the claim until the producer secures verbal-only assent from the corporate president to retroactively answer the aviation question.

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The insurer must pay the death benefit because issuing the policy with an unanswered question constitutes a waiver of its right to evaluate that specific risk.
When an insurance company issues a policy based on an application that contains visibly unanswered questions, the company legally waives its right to that specific information. The legal doctrine of waiver prevents the insurer from later denying a claim based on a blank response that they had the explicit opportunity to question before issuing the contract.

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1
Analyze the ownership and signature structure of the application.
The corporate president properly signed as the policyowner, and the CFO properly signed as the proposed insured, establishing valid initial consent.
To ensure the contract had the fundamental signatures required for a third-party business ownership arrangement.
2
Evaluate the producer's handling of the blank question.
The producer correctly refrained from unilaterally altering the application or relying on verbal-only assent, which are regulatory violations.
Producers must never change application answers without the applicant's direct knowledge and initials.
3
Determine the legal consequence of the insurer's underwriting oversight.
By issuing and delivering the policy without requiring the blank aviation question to be completed, the insurer enacted the legal doctrine of waiver.
Accepting an incomplete application and issuing a policy legally waives the insurer's right to demand that information later.
4
Apply the consequence to the claim scenario.
The insurer cannot deny the death benefit based on a risk (aviation) that they voluntarily chose to ignore during the underwriting process.
Waiver prevents the insurer from contesting the claim based on the previously ignored omission.

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