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 Ray Glassman no longer represents Metropolitan …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.