Employers may be vicariously liable for employee fraud committed using authority conferred by the employer, regardless of whether the traditional attribution-of-acts approach or the English close connection test is applied; contractual obligations to maintain procedures of a reasonably prudent mortgagee impose an objective standard that cannot be satisfied by procedures that leave an entire category of fraud undetectable.
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