CLINCH VALLEY PHYSICIANS, INC. v. GARCIA

Record No. 910811.

414 S.E.2d 599 (1992)

CLINCH VALLEY PHYSICIANS, INC. v. Luis A. GARCIA, M.D.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

February 28, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Fain Rutherford, Roanoke (Kevin S. Blair, Joe M. Bowen, Tazewell, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, Roanoke, Bowen & Bowen, Tazewell, on briefs), for appellant.

Thomas W. McCandlish, Richmond (Beverly W. Snukals, Mark B. Rhoads, Mezzullo & McCandlish, on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., STEPHENSON, WHITING, LACY, HASSELL and KEENAN, JJ., and POFF, Senior Justice.


WHITING, Justice.

In this appeal, we decide whether a noncompetition provision in a year-to-year employment contract applies upon its nonrenewal, as well as upon its termination for cause.

Clinch Valley Physicians, Inc. (CVP) is a professional corporation whose shareholders are physicians who practice in the Richlands area and are employed by CVP. Each physician was employed pursuant to a uniform contract drafted by CVP. In the latter part of 1984, CVP and...

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