JOHN ALDEN LIFE INS. CO. v. BENEFITS MANAGEMENT ASSOC. INC.

No. 96-60.

675 So.2d 188 (1996)

JOHN ALDEN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a Minnesota Corporation, Appellant, v. BENEFITS MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES, INC., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied July 3, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alley and Alley, and John-Edward Alley and Edmund J. McKenna, Tampa, Lane, Reese, Aulick, Summers & Field and William S. Reese, Coral Gables, for appellant.

Ford, Domnick, Wolf & Lopez-Albear, and Sean C. Domnick and Patrick Ford, Jr., Miami, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and GODERICH and GREEN, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

We reverse the order granting partial summary judgment. The subject order found enforceable a contractual term which provided for a bonus to be negotiated by the parties in the future.1 We conclude that such a contractual provision was merely an "agreement to agree" in the future about the bonus and hence unenforceable as a matter of law. Suggs v. Defranco's, Inc., 626 So.2d 1100,...

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