Bouffard v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding sufficient evidence of control where principal and agent discussed the coverage to be purchased in advance and principal had opportunity to review the policy documents should she so choose
• “[I]mplied authority may be conferred by acquiescence of the principal in the actions of the agent.”
• intentionally securing insurance policy on behalf of the principal was sufficient evidence of the agent’s assent to act on principal’s behalf
• “[W]e decline to allow a principal to accept the benefits of an insurance policy as negotiated by an agent on the one hand, but at the same time claim that one unbeneficial aspect of the policy should not apply.”
• reciting elements necessary to establish an agency relationship

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).