Progressive Casualty Insurance v. Ehrhardt

How courts have described this case

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• holding that ratification may be inferred when the principal, through works, conduct, or silence, indicates its desire to affirm the unauthorized act
• noting that receipt and retention of the benefits and failure to make a timely disaffirmance of an unauthorized transaction are circumstances indicating intent to ratify
• insurer had actual knowledge of the date of the car crash when it received the back dated claim
• “Under this doctrine [of apparent agency], the crucial factor is reasonable reliance by a third party on the principal’s conduct.”
• “the principal becomes responsible for the agent’s actions when the principal’s conduct . . . or failure to take corrective steps, has clothed an agent with apparent authority and thereby induces a third party to rely to his [or her] detriment.”
• stating Maryland law on apparent authority

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).