Mason v. American National Fire Insurance

On August 23, 1993, plaintiff, Gary Mason, filed a complaint in the circuit court of Cass County against defendants, American National Fire Insurance Company (ANFI) (a subsidiary of Great American Insurance Companies), Joseph A. DeSollar (DeSollar), and DeSollar Agency, Inc. (Agency). The complaint alleged that for the crop year 1992, ANFI had issued to plaintiff, through the Agency, a multiperil crop insurance policy (MPCI) and a multiperil disappearing deductible policy (MP-DD). The thrust of the complaint was that ANFI’s agents, DeSollar and the Agency, promised plaintiff the MP-DD policy…