Sullivan v. Employers Equitable Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that an attorney lacked apparent authority to bind a company when he signed the attorney’s blank but the corporate representative, who was present during negotiations, did not sign the blank explicitly reserved for his signature
• “Apparent authority is that which the principal’s conduct leads a third party reasonably to believe the agent has.”
• “[F]rom the perspective of the opposing party, in the absence of knowledge of express restrictions on an attorney’s authority, the opposing party may deal with the attorney as if with the client . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).