INSURANCE POLICY CASE.
QUESTION OF AUTHORITY.
CLAIM FOR PREMIUM FAILS. [I)Y TELEGRAM!.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] GISBORNE, Tuesday. A decision regarding tho renewal of an insurance policy without ah express acceptance proposal wag given by Mr. P. 11. Harper, S.M., in tho Magistrate's Court.
Tho caso was one in which an insurance company brought a claim for £ls 3s, allegedly duo as a premium in respect of a cover on a motor-truck. In dismissing tho claim the magistrate said that defendant had been covered by tho company in the previous year and subsequently it forwarded him a proposal for renewal. This ho did not sign, but, following a telephone communication to the company's agent, tho latter filled in a form and signed it on defendant's behalf. Tho magistrato said ho was not satisfied that authority to fill in the proposal, which was tho basis of tho whole policy, had been clearly proved, but apart from that there had been a variation in the policy, in that a now clause had been impressed with a rubber stamp, while the premium charged was 18s in excess of tho amount set out in the policy. Plaintiff was nonsuited, with costs £2 2s to tho defendant..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21233, 13 July 1932, Page 10
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