COM-CO INS. AGENCY, INC. v. SERVICE INS. AGENCY, INC.

No. 1-00-1643.

748 N.E.2d 298 (2001)

321 Ill. App.3d 816

254 Ill.Dec. 852

COM-CO INSURANCE AGENCY, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SERVICE INSURANCE AGENCY, INC., and William J. Abplanalp, Jr., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

April 16, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rieck and Crotty, P.C., Chicago, Jerome F. Crotty and Kathleen K. Smith; Spalding & Associates, Skokie (Herb Spalding, of counsel), for Appellant.

Flamm & Teibloom, Ltd., Matthew A. Flamm and Gwendolyn S. Harris, Chicago, for Appellee.


Presiding Justice McNULTY delivered the opinion of the court:

Com-Co Insurance Agency sued its former employee, William Abplanalp, and his new employer, Service Insurance Agency, for breaching a restrictive covenant by soliciting business from Abplanalp's friends. The court granted defendants summary judgment because Com-Co had no protectible interest in the customers at issue. We affirm.

Com-Co hired Abplanalp as an insurance agent in 1986. Abplanalp signed...

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