Country Mutual Insurance Co. v. Adams

Plaintiff, Country Mutual Insurance Company (Country Mutual), appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of its agent, defendant George F. Adams, in Country Mutual’s suit alleging breach of contract and the wrongful advising of an insured.

Adams entered into an agent’s agreement with Country Mutual in 1967 to solicit and sell insurance. The instant action grew out of a policy sold by Adams to Gerald Schweigert in 1970 to insure his pickup truck and landscaping business. After the policy had been issued by Country Mutual, Schweigert asked Adams if his homemade trailer was…