In Reversal, Michigan Panel Rules That Insurer’s Statement Established Materiality

(June 28, 2022, 11:24 AM EDT) -- DETROIT — In an unpublished opinion noting several disagreements with the trial court, a Michigan Court of Appeals panel on June 23 reversed and remanded a decision centered on misrepresentations made in an automobile insurance application, ruling in part that under Michigan law, an insurer “was not required to demonstrate that [the insured’s] misrepresentations were causally connected to the loss to demonstrate materiality.”...