RLI Insurance Co. v. Athan Contracting Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[W]here the principal knows of an unauthorized act taken on his behalf and remains silent, he is deemed to have ratified the act” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).
• “Under New York law, a principal can be held liable for the unauthorized acts of an agent that the principal later ratifies . . . Ratification is the express or implied adoption, i.e. recognition and approval, of the unauthorized acts of another.”
• “Under New York law, a principal can be held liable for the unauthorized acts of an agent that the principal later ratifies . . . . Ratification is the express or implied adoption, i.e. recognition and approval, of the unauthorized acts of another.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).