Majority Reverses Ruling In Professional Liability Dispute Over Opioid Overdoses

(June 8, 2018, 10:10 AM EDT) -- CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A majority of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on June 5 held that a lower court erred in ruling that an insurer was not entitled to rescind a professional liability insurance policy, finding that there are genuine issues of material fact regarding whether the applicant made fraudulent misrepresentations and omissions regarding his involvement in multiple opioid drug overdose deaths (Admiral Insurance Company v. Philip Fisher, D.O., et al., No. 17-0671, W.Va. Sup., 2018 W.Va. LEXIS 467)....

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