For a CONSUMER insurance contract, Singapore's Insurance Act replaces the strict common-law duty of disclosure with a duty on the consumer to:
For consumer contracts the open-ended duty to volunteer all material facts is replaced by a duty to take reasonable care not to make a misrepresentation. The onus moves to the insurer to ask clear, specific questions; remedies are then proportionate to whether any misrepresentation was deliberate/reckless or merely careless.
The modern consumer rule is NOT an open-ended duty to volunteer everything — it is a duty of reasonable care in answering the insurer's questions.
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