PATRICIA ADKINS INS. AGENCY v. STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS.

No. C050591.

52 Cal.Rptr.3d 882 (2007)

146 Cal.App.4th 526

PATRICIA ADKINS INSURANCE AGENCY, INC., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeal of California, Third District.

January 4, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Wallace C. Doolittle and Wallace C. Doolittle, Hayward; William P. Tedards for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, George A. Yuhas, Sean A. Lincoln, E. Anne Hawkins, San Francisco, for Defendants and Respondents.


DAVIS, Acting P.J.

In this appeal we conclude that a collection of State Farm insurance companies (State Farm) breached an agreement with their independent contractor agents (the Agents) by imposing trade secret and noncompetition restrictions on certain employees of the Agents. Consequently, we reverse the judgment in which the trial court refused to grant the Agents declaratory and injunctive relief in these respects, and we direct that such relief be granted.<...

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