Material misrepresentations in an insurance application can serve as the basis for rescission of the resulting policy. A recent federal district court decision examined the question of whether or not an insurer could rescind a fidelity bond on the grounds that the credit union manager who signed the credit union’s insurance application failed to disclose that she was embezzling funds from the credit union. In a March 17, 2017 opinion (here), District of Minnesota Judge Donovan Frank, applying Minnesota law, held that because the manager was acting entirely for her own benefit when she failed to disclose her theft, the misrepresentation could not be imputed to the credit union, and therefore the insurer was not entitled to rescind the bond.
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