Fireman's Fund Insurance v. City of Turlock

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• \A principal ratifies an agent's acts when he knows of the acts and accepts the benefits which flow from them.\
• no coverage because absent contractual promise for non-disclosure, city could not have been liable, despite possible privacy and defamation claims
• where city's liability for an employee's fraud is predicated upon vicarious liability and not upon the city's own intentional acts, insurance indemnification for the city is not precluded by section 533

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).