Gallant Insurance Co. v. Isaac

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “apparent authority refers to a third party’s reasonable belief that the principal has authorized the acts of its agent; it arises from the principal’s indirect or direct manifestations to a third party”
• holding that the evidence showed that Thompson-Harris had apparent authority to bind Gallant, that is, “Gallant’s dealings with Isaac [] contained the manifestations required [ ] to cause Isaac reasonably to believe that Thompson-Harris had authority to bind Gallant”
• holding insurance agency had apparent authority to bind insurance company as a matter of law
• holding insurance agency had apparent authority to bind insurance company as a matter of law
• \[A]pparent authority refers to a third party's reasonable belief that the principal has authorized the acts of its agent; it arises from the principal's indirect or direct manifestations to a third party and not from the representations or acts of the agent.\ (citations omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).