Jury Says Rescission Justified In Life Insurer Suit Involving Missing Physician

( March 4, 2026, 2:51 PM EST) -- FORT MYERS, Fla. — After a jury returned a verdict finding that a life insurer was entitled to rescind its insured’s $1.4 million policy, a Florida federal judge on March 3 ordered the court clerk to enter judgment in favor of the insurer on the rescission issue and denied the insurer’s request for a declaratory judgment that the insured, a physician who has been missing at sea since Aug. 10, 2022, committed suicide....