No nondisclosure for renal-stone reserve

ATA/628/1998Cour de justice / Verwaltungskammer06.10.1998Granted

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Omnilex-Zusammenfassung

The court held that an overnight hospitalization for a prostate condition was irrelevant to the insurer’s assessment of whether it could reserve coverage for renal lithiasis. The insured’s statement that he did not suffer from urinary-tract disease was therefore not a nondisclosure. The appeal was allowed and the reservation could not be maintained.

Omnilex-Regeste

LAMA 12; duty of disclosure in health insurance and reservation for a later-affecting condition; a fact is relevant only if it is materially connected with the risk to be assessed. A transient prostate problem requiring brief hospitalization is not, by itself, pertinent to the imposition of a reservation for renal lithiasis. Where the insured states that he does not suffer from urinary-tract disease, no concealment is committed if the undisclosed circumstance is not objectively relevant to the insured risk (consid. unknown).

Gesamter Gesetzestext

Descripteurs

ASSURANCE SOCIALE; AM; VIOLATION DE L'OBLIGATION D'ANNONCER; ASSU/LCA

Normes

LAMA.12

Résumé

L'existence d'un problème de prostate ayant entraîné une hospitalisation d'une nuit n'est pas pertinente pour déterminer si la caisse peut imposer à l'assuré une réserve pour l'affection de lithiase rénale. En indiquant qu'il ne souffrait pas de maladie des voies urinaires, le recourant n'a pas commis de réticence.

Schlagwörter

social insurancehealth insuranceduty of disclosurenondisclosurereservationkidney stonesurinary tract diseaseprostatemateriality

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Kernrechtsfrage

Whether a one-night hospitalization for a prostate problem justified a reservation for renal lithiasis.

Extrahierter Entscheid

No. The prostate episode was not relevant to assessing whether the insurer could impose a reservation for renal lithiasis.

Extrahierte Begründung

The prior prostate problem did not amount to a fact materially connected to the later risk assessment for kidney stones.

Kernrechtsfrage

Whether the insured committed concealment by stating that he did not suffer from urinary-tract disease.

Extrahierter Entscheid

No. That statement was not false in the circumstances and did not constitute nondisclosure.

Extrahierte Begründung

Because the prostate issue was not pertinent to urinary-tract disease for the purpose of the insurance declaration, the insured had not breached the duty of disclosure.

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