diff --git a/src/main/java/com/bandwidth/voice/bxml/verbs/Ring.java b/src/main/java/com/bandwidth/voice/bxml/verbs/Ring.java
index 111c9f8f..e94003bd 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/bandwidth/voice/bxml/verbs/Ring.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/bandwidth/voice/bxml/verbs/Ring.java
@@ -25,5 +25,5 @@ public class Ring implements Verb {
      * incoming call. Default value is 'true'.
      */
     @XmlAttribute
-    private boolean answerCall;
+    private Boolean answerCall;
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/bandwidth/BxmlTest.java b/src/test/java/com/bandwidth/BxmlTest.java
index cf83164b..d7586b4c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/bandwidth/BxmlTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/bandwidth/BxmlTest.java
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ public void testNestedGatherMultipleVerbs() {
 
         assertEquals("BXML strings not equal", expected, response);
     }
-    
+
     @Test
     public void testNestedGatherSingleVerb() {
         SpeakSentence speakSentence = SpeakSentence.builder()
@@ -442,6 +442,16 @@ public void testRing() {
         assertEquals("BXML strings not equal", expected, response);
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testRingDefault() {
+        Ring ring = Ring.builder().build();
+        String response = new Response().add(ring).toBXML();
+
+        String expected = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><Response><Ring/></Response>";
+
+        assertEquals("BXML strings not equal", expected, response);
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testStopGather() {
         StopGather stopGather = StopGather.builder().build();