Agents vs. Companies

1980s

  • 1985 - LC - Glassman v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. -  616 F. Supp. 145 - Dist. Court, ND Illinois, 1985 - [Google Scholar link]
    • … Glassman (Glassman) brought this libel action against his former employer, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (Metropolitan … We wish to inform you that Mr. Ray Glassman no longer represents Metropolitan …

1990s

  • 1996 - LC - Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Haney, Charles G.
    • 14-96-01096-CV
    • Date Filed: 09/06/1996
    • https://search.txcourts.gov/Case.aspx?cn=14-96-01096-CV&coa=coa14
      • 08/11/2014 Case file was destroyed per retention schedule
    • ACLI - AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LIFE INS. - Appellant - Jane Webre, Steve McConnico, Phillip E. Stano
    • 2000 - LR - Deceptive Trade Practices - Consumer Protection Act, by A. Michael Ferrill and Leslie Sara Hyman - 35p
      • In Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Haney,8 a life insurance agent brought DTPA claims against MetLife complaining of inaccurate policy illustrations generated by computer software that MetLife sold to its agents.
      • The Texas Supreme Court revisited this issue in Crown Life Insurance Co. v. Casteel,52 a case involving claims by insurance policyholders against a life insurer and agent and a cross-claim by the agent against the insurer. 
  • 1997 - LC - Casteel v. Crown Life Ins. Co. - 3 SW 3d 582 - Tex: Court of Appeals, 3rd Dist., 1997  ---  [BonkNote]
    • This appeal arises out of a lawsuit involving multiple parties with claims and cross claims concerning the sale of life insurance policies to Randall and Sandra Ferguson. Specifically, the issues involved in this appeal pertain to a dispute between appellant William E. Casteel, an insurance agent …
    • 2000 - LC - Crown Life Ins. Co. v. Casteel - 22 SW 3d 378 - Tex: Supreme Court, 2000 - [Google Scholar link]
      • William E. Casteel sold insurance policies as an independent agent of Crown Life Insurance Company.
      • One of the policies sold by Casteel led to a lawsuit by policyholders against Casteel and Crown.
      • In that lawsuit, Casteel filed a cross-claim against Crown. In this appeal from that …

2010s

  • 2xxx- LC - Fairbanks v. Farmers New World Life  ---  [BonkNote]
  • 2010 - LC - Maloof v. John HancockLife Ins. Co. -  60 So. 3d 263 - Alabama Supreme Court Opinion  ---  [BonkNote]  ---  39p
    • Parker A. Glasgow - Agent, and also Policyowner
      • (6-7p) - On April 16, 2008, John Hancock moved the trial court to stay all proceedings pending a ruling from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California on whether the Maloofs' action was barred by the settlement of a class action overseen by that court in 1998 in which allegedly deceptive sales practices used by Manulife between 1982 and 1993 were challenged;
        • Glasgow subsequently joined in that motion.