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COMPLAINT STATED A CAUSE OF ACTION AGAINST BROKER INDIVIDUALLY FOR NEGLIGENT MISREPRESENTATION AND FOR BREACH OF A FIDUCIARY DUTY AGAINST THE BROKER’S CORPORATION.

The Second Department, reversing (modifying), Supreme Court determined the complaint stated a cause of against for negligent misrepresentation against an insurance broker (Weiss) individually and for breach of fiduciary duty against the broker’s corporation (JDW). It was alleged that the defendants failed to add plaintiff’s landlord as an additional insured and the broker signed a certificate which falsely indicated the landlord had been added to the policy:

Here, the Supreme Court erred in determining, upon reargument, that the complaint failed to state a cause of action sounding in negligent misrepresentation against Weiss individually. … [W]e note that the complaint, as amplified by the evidentiary materials submitted by the plaintiffs, alleged that Weiss personally signed a certificate of insurance falsely stating that the plaintiffs’ landlord had been added as an additional insured on a certain commercial general liability insurance policy, and forwarded this certificate to the plaintiffs, knowing that it was required by the plaintiffs’ landlord. This is sufficient, for purposes of CPLR 3211(a)(7), to state a cause of action against Weiss, based on his personal participation in the commission of a tort … . * * *

The common-law rule is that “an insurance broker acting as an agent of its customer has a duty of reasonable care to the customer to obtain [specifically] requested coverage within a reasonable time after the request, or to inform the customer of the agent’s inability to do so, [but] the agent owes no continuing duty to advise, guide or direct the customer insured to obtain additional coverage” … . However “[w]here a special relationship develops between the broker and client, . . . [the] broker may be liable, even in the absence of a specific request, for failing to advise or direct the client to obtain additional coverage” … . The Court of Appeals has identified three “exceptional situations” which may give rise to such a special relationship: ” (1) the agent receives compensation for consultation apart from payment of the premiums; (2) there was some interaction regarding a question of coverage, with the insured relying on the expertise of the agent; or (3) there is a course of dealing over an extended period of time which would have put objectively reasonable insurance agents on notice that their advice was being sought and specially relied on'” … .

Here, contrary to the defendants’ contention, the complaint sufficiently alleged that there was a course of dealing between JDW and the plaintiffs over an extended period of time, which may have given rise to a special relationship between them … . JT Queens Carwash, Inc. v JDW & Assoc., Inc., 2016 NY Slip Op 07295, 2nd Dept 11-9-16

 

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