Benson v. Continental Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that there was no allegation that the local insurance agent was acting outside its scope of its authority when it allegedly made misrepresentations about renewal policy
• As a general rule, where the agent is the agent of the insurer, acts within the scope of his authority, and his principal is disclosed, he is not liable to the insured either in contract or in tort.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).