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TIME INS. CO. v. BISHOP

Record No. 920348.

425 S.E.2d 489 (1993)

TIME INSURANCE COMPANY v. Doris J. BISHOP, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Beeken E. Bishop, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 8, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melissa Warner Scoggins, Daniel Patrick Frankl, Roanoke (Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore, on briefs), for appellant.

Charles R. Beller, III, Christiansburg (Paul M. Barnett, Crowgey & Barnett, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.

WHITING, Justice.

The sole issue in this insurance case is whether the evidence establishes as a matter of law that an insured knowingly misrepresented a material fact in his application for insurance.

On July 1, 1987, Beeken E. Bishop applied for a policy of hospitalization and life insurance to be issued by Time Insurance Company (Time). Charles M. James, an agent of Time, filled in an application for this insurance by recording Bishop's answers to the questions...

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