Hudson v. Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Ass'n

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• distinguishing between apparent authority and estoppel and including reliance only as an element of the latter
• apparent authority conferred by “conduct by the principal [that] causes a third person reasonably to believe that a particular person has ... [such] authority” (citation omitted)
• “[t]he insurance agent is the representative of the company, and the insurance broker is ordinarily the agent of the insured . . .”
• apparent authority exists where principal acts in way that 14 reasonably causes third person to believe that agent has authority to act for principal
• statute which deemed insurance broker an agent of insurance company in one circumstance did not make the broker a general agent of the company
• apparent authority conferred by \conduct by the principal [that] causes a third person reasonably to believe that a particular person has . . . [such] authority\ (citation omitted)

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