Smith v. Coffman

| ¶ This dispute between two physicians concerns a three-year employment agreement governing their relationship in a medical practice. The defendant and his medical corporation hired the plaintiff. At the end of the three-year term of the contract following written and other exchanges between the parties, the employment relationship ended. This led to various disputes concerning the contract’s covenant not to compete, the manner in which the contract ended, an obligation to pay for the cost of continued malpractice insurance, the final payment of compensation owed to the plaintiff for his…