Question juridique clé
Whether the insurer validly cancelled the building insurance contract for alleged reticence within the statutory period.
Solution extraite
The insurer had learned the decisive facts more than four weeks before its 9 May 2005 cancellation letter, so the cancellation was ineffective.
Motifs extraits
The lower court’s finding that the insurer was already sufficiently informed before 23 March 2005 was not arbitrary; the documents and meetings before then already revealed the prior 1999 fire, the payment of substantial indemnities, and the succession from the former company name.