Unknown Information Need Not Be Disclosed

August 22, 2014

In this fraud case, the Court of Appeals rejected the plaintiff’s argument that its fraud claim should survive summary judgment because the defendant failed to disclose information that it “should have known”  According to the Court, a fraud claim based on a failure to disclose theory requires that the defendant actually knew the information because “[t]here is . . . no duty if a defendant fails to disclose material facts it ‘should have known.'”

Dontos v. Banco Popular