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Life · Chapter 7 · Agent Duties & Disclosures

Fiduciary Capacity / Responsibility

Definition
The producer's legal obligation to act in the client's best interest — care, loyalty, and good faith — especially when collecting premiums (money held in trust, never commingled). An unintentional error or honest mistake by a producer is a tort called an error and omission.
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