Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: November 8, 2024) |
Title 7 - Agriculture |
Subtitle B - Regulations of the Department of Agriculture |
Chapter IV - Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Department of Agriculture |
Part 414 - FORAGE SEEDING CROP INSURANCE |
Subpart A - Regulations for the 1981 and Succeeding Crop Years |
§ 414.5 - Good faith reliance on misrepresentation.
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Notwithstanding any other provision of the forage seeding insurance contract, whenever
(a) An insured person under a contract of crop insurance entered into under these regulations, as a result of a misrepresentation or other erroneous action or advice by an agent or employee of the Corporation, (1) is indebted to the Corporation for additional premiums, or (2) has suffered a loss to a crop which is not insured or for which the insured person is not entitled to an indemnity because of failure to comply with the terms of the insurance contract, but which the insured person believed to be insured, or believed the terms of the insurance contract to have been complied with or waived, and
(b) The Board of Directors of the Corporation, or the Manager in cases involving not more than $100,000.00 finds
(1) that an agent or employee of the Corporation did in fact make such misrepresentation or take other erroneous action or give erroneous advice, (2) that said insured person relied thereon in good faith, and (3) that to require the payment of the additional premiums or to deny such insured's entitlement to the indemnity would not be fair and equitable, such insured person shall be granted relief the same as if otherwise entitled thereto.