Concord Orthopaedics Professional Ass'n v. Forbes

THAYER, j.

Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 8, we accepted the Superior Court’s (Smukler, J.) transfer of the following two questions: First, whether the trial court correctly concluded as a matter of law and public policy that the analysis of a covenant not to compete between a physician and a professional association is no different than that generally applied to such covenants? We hold that it did. Second, whether the trial court erred when it granted Concord Orthopaedics Professional Association’s (COPA’s) request to enforce the covenant not to compete to the extent it applies to COPA’s…