Behrman v. Allstate Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• dismissing conspiracy claims after concluding plaintiff did not sufficiently allege duty to disclose in predicate fraud count
• “[O]missions are not actionable as fraudulent misrepresentations unless the party omitting the information owes a duty of disclosure to the party receiving the information.”
• “In addition to the operation of the economic loss rule on Plaintiffs claim for negligent hiring, training, and supervision, this claim fails for another reason: Plaintiff has once again failed to allege an employer-employee relationship ... ”
• “In an arms-length transaction, neither party owes a duty to the other to act for that party’s benefit or protection, or to disclose facts that the other party could have discovered through its own diligence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).