Key legal question
Whether the insurer could be charged with knowledge of a prior nondisclosure through another affiliated insurer
Extracted holding
No; the factual basis for attributing one company’s knowledge to the other was lacking, so the rescission period was not triggered earlier.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 6 VVG requires the insurer’s actual, secure knowledge of the nondisclosure. The record did not show that the same employee acted for both companies in the relevant stage, nor any basis for an attribution of knowledge between the two insurers.