EL SUICIDIO COMO RIESGO ASEGURABLE EN COLOMBIA

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Helmut Vargas

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This article is the result of the need to deepen and update the existing notions in the Colombian legal system about suicide as an insurable risk in the life insurance contract, since the current positions in Colombia are outdated with respect to other systems at the national level. international and therefore limit the autonomy of the policyholders’ will, which generates an affectation to the rights especially when in life insurance contracts, insurers take the role of dominant party in imposing the rules of the game, situation that is notorious in the case of life insurance mainly with the figure of suicide, where the current regulations do not consider it insurable, since according to the insurers this figure could be taken as fraudulent, since they affirm that the intention of the policyholder with this figure is always aimed at defrauding, which is not true in all cases, since there may be another Rare motivations to make the determination to commit suicide.

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