Connecticut General Statutes 38a-437 – Copy of application to be furnished
(a) Each person within this state holding a policy of insurance issued by a life insurance company doing business in this state shall be furnished by the company with a copy of the application upon which the policy was issued, upon demand made for such copy by the policyholder, or by any person upon whose life the policy was issued.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 38a-437
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Insurance: means any agreement to pay a sum of money, provide services or any other thing of value on the happening of a particular event or contingency or to provide indemnity for loss in respect to a specified subject by specified perils in return for a consideration. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- insurance company: includes any person or combination of persons doing any kind or form of insurance business other than a fraternal benefit society, and shall include a receiver of any insurer when the context reasonably permits. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- Person: means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, a limited liability company, an association, a joint stock company, a business trust, an unincorporated organization or other legal entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- Policy: means any document, including attached endorsements and riders, purporting to be an enforceable contract, which memorializes in writing some or all of the terms of an insurance contract. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- State: means any state, district, or territory of the United States. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
(b) If the company fails for thirty days from the time of the demand to furnish to the person making the demand a copy of the application, the company shall be forever barred from setting up, by way of defense to any suit on the policy of insurance, any error, incorrectness, fraud or misrepresentation of that person, or any mistake therein; and the application shall thereafter be taken and held, so far as the application may affect any claim under the policy, or any fund secured thereby, to be in all respects true and correct.