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ostensible agent

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A quick definition of ostensible agent:

An ostensible agent is someone who appears to be working for a company or person, even though they may not have been officially hired or given authority to act on their behalf. For example, if a hospital allows a doctor to work there and presents them as an employee, even though they are actually an independent contractor, the hospital can be held responsible for the doctor's actions. This is called "ostensible agency" or "apparent authority."

A more thorough explanation:

Definition: An ostensible agent is a person who appears to be an agent of a principal, but who has no actual or express authority to act on behalf of the principal. The principal may have intentionally or unintentionally led third parties to believe that the person is an agent.

For example, a hospital may be held responsible for the actions of an independent contractor physician if the hospital holds the physician out as its employee and patients look to the hospital for care rather than the individual physician. This is known as "ostensible agency" or "apparent authority." In an emergency room setting, patients may accept services from whichever physician is assigned to their case, and the hospital may be held liable for the physician's actions.

Another example of ostensible agency is when an employer hires an independent contractor, but does something to suggest that the contractor actually works for the employer, or fails to correct this assumption. In this case, the employer can be held liable for the independent contractor's actions.

These examples illustrate how a principal can be held responsible for the actions of an ostensible agent, even if the agent has no actual authority to act on behalf of the principal.

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soapy
9:46
Ah. I didn't. Looking back, my Mich supplement kind of sucks, so there's that
Mich overrated (Dean Z please let me in even tho i didnt apply and I am below both 25ths)
ClassyPleasantHeron
10:01
The "date changes" at Michigan really don't mean anything. We had to do them in undergrad admissions whenever a Georgia applicant picked the country instead of the state, because we'd have to remove the TOEFL requirement and reassign the application from the international application readers.
soapy
10:06
Classy, does that mean they may look at your application, and that look doesn't necessarily trigger any date change?
1a2b3c4d26z
10:06
Man
1a2b3c4d26z
10:07
Walkin to the bus
1a2b3c4d26z
10:07
What a good day to get into law school
ClassyPleasantHeron
10:11
@soapy: I don't know for sure about the law school. For undergrad, once the application is complete, it's assigned to a reader the following Monday. If we had to make any changes, it's because a reader saw something that needed to be changed and the application needed to be re-read after that change.
soapy
10:12
Ahh, got it. Thank you for the insight!
ClassyPleasantHeron
10:14
You're welcome. FWIW, I have no idea what's up with the address changes. We didn't have to do any of that, except for the Georgia state vs country kinds of things.
soapy
10:15
I've heard it theorized that some schools will change the address from "St." --> "Street" as they prepare to send out admissions packets. That's the rumor, anyways.
i think it just indicates a change in status like under review or stages of review
my stanford address went long as soon as it was marked complete lmao
soapy
10:25
I saw some Reddit adcom say that they can see any time we refresh the status checker; I wonder if it's a red flag if an applicant's checked it like 50 times in a day?
soapy
10:25
Also, can we send another LoR to a school that we've already applied to?
soapy
10:26
Or another essay?
10:30
i'll allow it
soapy
10:31
<3 thanks Fart Butt
1a2b3c4d26z
10:31
If I get rejected by a school bc I check my statuses during work then it wasn’t meant to be
10:32
cautionary tail re reddit posts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jZAQAuqSfs
How else will they know we fuck
Need to know aboot 6 pack abs
How many 666 people apply?
lolololol
soapy
10:34
Ah that's frightening
@triplethread
Why? LOL
soapy
10:35
The adcoms recognize you and will deny you is frightening, lmaoo. Not the abs thing XD
10:36
they browse LSD?
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