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Fidelity Bond

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Fidelity Bond

An insurance device in the form of a personal guaranty that protects against loss resulting from disreputable or disloyal employees or other individuals who possess positions of confidence.

A bank might, for example, insure itself against losses deliberately or negligently caused by their officers and staff through the execution of a fidelity bond. If such losses occur, the amount of the bond is forfeited to reimburse the losses.

West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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In order to broaden the bond's coverage to reimburse trading losses arising from employee dishonesty, forgery of certain instruments, or certain forged or counterfeited securities, for a higher premium, insureds can obtain a fidelity bond that deletes the trading loss exclusion from the policy in connection with these types of perils by:
Under collateral source rule, wrongdoers are not entitled to credit for amounts received by insured under fidelity bond.
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Centennial Insurance Co.(19) the assignee of two insured companies sought recovery under a fidelity bond for losses sustained as a result of the fraudulent acts of John Panagako.
Co., et al., and in it the plaintiff alleged wrongful denial of $20 million owed under fidelity bond policies issued by Liberty, Zurich American Insurance Co., Axis Insurance Co.
In Matter of World Hospitality Ltd.(16) the insured's bankruptcy trustee sought recovery under a fidelity bond for losses caused by the insured's president, Kenneth Wohl, who appropriated some of the insured's assets for his personal use.
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