Olsen v. Producers Life Insurance

Plaintiff brought this suit for an accounting to determine the amount of renewal commissions owing him as compensation for working as a supervising agent or employee of the defendant. The trial court found that the plaintiff had unclean hands and, therefore, was not entitled to relief from a court of equity. Plaintiff appeals.

The plaintiff went to work for the defendant Producers Life Insurance Company in 1958 and worked under various employment contracts, all of which provided that the defendant would receive some percentage of the renewal premiums paid on business produced by agents working…