context: Jolicoeur contemplates that an insurance administrator could, under appropriate circumstances, illicitly interfere with the contract of its principal. Like any other agent, an administrator could accomplish this feat by acting beyond the scope of its authority.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 808 F.2d 1005, 1007-08
citation_a.parenthetical: holding that a corporate officer, acting in his or her official capacity, could not tortiously interfere with a corporate contract because corporations act only through their officers and agents
citation_a.sentence: See Kennett v. Marquis, 798 A.2d 416, 419 (R.I.2002) (per curiam) (“An agent, however, may be personally liable for unauthorized acts outside the scope of the agency[.]”); Brown v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 58 P.3d 217, 223 (Okla.Civ.App.2002) (remarking that an independent insurance adjuster could be liable for tortiously interfering with an insurance contract by acting beyond the scope of its authority from the insurer); see also Michelson v. Exxon Research & Eng’g Co., 808 F.2d 1005,1007-08 (3d Cir.1987) (holding that a corporate officer, acting in his or her official capacity, could not tortiously interfere with a corporate contract because corporations act only through their officers and agents); Rao v. Rao, 718 F.2d 219, 225 (7th Cir.1983) (similar); Am. Trade Partners, L.P. v. A-1 Int’l Importing Enter., Ltd., 757 F.Supp. 545, 555-56 (E.D.Pa. 1991) (same); Shoemaker v. Myers, 52 Cal.3d 1, 276 Cal.Rptr. 303, 801 P.2d 1054, 1068 (1990) (same); Hickman v. Winston County Hosp. Bd., 508 So.2d 237, 239 (Ala. 1987) (same).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 58 P.3d 217, 223
citation_b.parenthetical: remarking that an independent insurance adjuster could be liable for tortiously interfering with an insurance contract by acting beyond the scope of its authority from the insurer
citation_b.sentence: See Kennett v. Marquis, 798 A.2d 416, 419 (R.I.2002) (per curiam) (“An agent, however, may be personally liable for unauthorized acts outside the scope of the agency[.]”); Brown v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 58 P.3d 217, 223 (Okla.Civ.App.2002) (remarking that an independent insurance adjuster could be liable for tortiously interfering with an insurance contract by acting beyond the scope of its authority from the insurer); see also Michelson v. Exxon Research & Eng’g Co., 808 F.2d 1005,1007-08 (3d Cir.1987) (holding that a corporate officer, acting in his or her official capacity, could not tortiously interfere with a corporate contract because corporations act only through their officers and agents); Rao v. Rao, 718 F.2d 219, 225 (7th Cir.1983) (similar); Am. Trade Partners, L.P. v. A-1 Int’l Importing Enter., Ltd., 757 F.Supp. 545, 555-56 (E.D.Pa. 1991) (same); Shoemaker v. Myers, 52 Cal.3d 1, 276 Cal.Rptr. 303, 801 P.2d 1054, 1068 (1990) (same); Hickman v. Winston County Hosp. Bd., 508 So.2d 237, 239 (Ala. 1987) (same).