Bennie Vitale, and Anna Vitale v. The Aetna Casualty & Surety Company

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that public policy favors holding insureds responsible for their agents’ fraudulent conduct because otherwise, “an insured could simply delegate responsibility for submitting the proof of loss to a third party whose conduct could then be disavowed”
• finding no abuse where the motion was made less than two months before trial, no reason was given for the delay, and the amendment may have required additional discovery on the new factual allegations
• involving alleged arson where the insurer denied coverage on the basis of “fraud in the filing of an insurance claim” under a policy which barred all coverage “in the case of any fraud or false swearing by the insured relating thereto”
• involving alleged arson where the insurer denied coverage on the basis of \fraud in the filing of an insurance claim\ under a policy which barred all coverage \in the case of any fraud or false swearing by the insured relating thereto\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).