Country Corner Food & Drug, Inc. v. Reiss

Beth Gladden Coulson, Judge.

Appellant, Country Corner Food and Drug, Inc., appeals a decision of the Faulkner County Circuit Court awarding judgment to appellee, Robert L. Reiss, for breach of an agreement to provide family health insurance coverage pursuant to an oral employment contract. We affirm.

In October, 1985, appellee quit his job and moved his family from Kansas in order to begin work for appellant in Greenbrier, Arkansas, as a meat-cutter. At the time that appellee began work for appellant, appellee’s wife was pregnant; health insurance coverage for the pregnancy and birth was…