Star Insurance v. United Commercial Insurance Agency, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the counter-plaintiff insurance company could raise a fraudulent-inducement claim despite the presence of a merger clause in the disputed contract
• holding that fraudulent inducement renders a contract void or voidable
• explaining that a merger clause does not preclude a party from alleging that its assent to the contract was induced through justified reliance upon a fraudulent misrepresentation
• “[O]ne should not be heard to complain that they relied on oral promises regarding additional or contrary contract terms when there is written proof, signed by both parties, to the contrary.”

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