Hall v. Farmers Insurance Exchange

DOOLIN, Vice Chief Justice.

This cause concerns a dispute between Appellants, who are various insurance companies doing business as Farmers Insurance Group (hereafter “Farmers”), together with their District Manager, Cassity and Appellee Hall, who for many years was an insurance agent selling policies for Farmers. Halls’ association with Farmers began in April, 1962, and continued until 1978. In 1968, Hall and Farmers entered into the particular agency contract from which this litigation arose.

During the ten-year life of the contract in question, each party performed to the satisfaction of the…