diff --git a/src/Val.cc b/src/Val.cc
index a313e810cc..8d0fbdf499 100644
--- a/src/Val.cc
+++ b/src/Val.cc
@@ -2976,6 +2976,7 @@ RecordVal* RecordVal::CoerceTo(const RecordType* t, Val* aggr) const
 			Expr* rhs = new ConstExpr(Lookup(i)->Ref());
 			Expr* e = new RecordCoerceExpr(rhs, ar_t->FieldType(t_i)->AsRecordType());
 			ar->Assign(t_i, e->Eval(0));
+			continue;
 			}
 
 		ar->Assign(t_i, Lookup(i)->Ref());
diff --git a/testing/btest/Baseline/language.record-recursive-coercion/output b/testing/btest/Baseline/language.record-recursive-coercion/output
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..37c916713f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/btest/Baseline/language.record-recursive-coercion/output
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+[major=4, minor=4, minor2=<uninitialized>, addl=<uninitialized>]
diff --git a/testing/btest/language/record-recursive-coercion.bro b/testing/btest/language/record-recursive-coercion.bro
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eda80e3d11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/btest/language/record-recursive-coercion.bro
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# @TEST-EXEC: bro %INPUT >output 2>&1
+# @TEST-EXEC: btest-diff output
+
+type Version: record {
+        major:  count  &optional;
+        minor:  count  &optional;
+        minor2: count  &optional;
+        addl:   string &optional;
+};
+
+type Info: record {
+        name:    string;
+        version: Version;
+};
+
+global matched_software: table[string] of Info = {
+        ["OpenSSH_4.4"] = [$name="OpenSSH", $version=[$major=4,$minor=4]],
+};
+
+event bro_init()
+        {
+        for ( sw in matched_software )
+                print matched_software[sw]$version;
+        }