BURKE v. HAWKEYE NAT. LIFE INS. CO.

No. 89-1294.

474 N.W.2d 110 (1991)

Robert J. BURKE, Appellee, v. HAWKEYE NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing September 12, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diane M. Stahle, Gene R. La Suer, and Stanley J. Thompson of Davis, Hockenberg, Wine, Brown, Koehn & Shors, P.C., Des Moines, for appellant.

Sam S. Killinger of Rawlings, Nieland, Probasco, Killinger, Ellwanger, Jacobs & Mohrhauser and David L. Reinschmidt and Stanley E. Munger of Munger Law Firm, Sioux City, for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and LARSON, SCHULTZ, NEUMAN, and SNELL, JJ.


NEUMAN, Justice.

This suit began as a breach of contract action against an insurance company by one of its former independent agents. As originally pled, the suit also claimed that the company interrupted "plaintiff's commercial relationships with others." Four years later, in the midst of a bench trial, the agent was allowed to amend his petition to add a claim for actual and punitive damages caused by the company's alleged tortious interference with prospective...

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