What constitutes a "willful false statement" by a person in the context of an insurance claim?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Gotsutsov v. ICBC, 2009 BCPC 154 (CanLII):

A willfully false statement by a person in the context of an insurance claim includes a statement which is made as a result of willful blindness as to the truth of the facts stated or with reckless disregard of the true facts: Skuratow v. Commonwealth Insurance Co. [2005] BCJ No. 2257 at para. 14.

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