Covert v. Allen Group, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

KANE, District Judge.

The plaintiffs seek recovery because of the Allen Group’s refusal to honor a promise to employ Richard Covert. He alleges that in reliance upon the Allen group’s April IT, 1984, promise to employ him, he terminated his previous employment and sustained other financial and emotional injuries. Richard Covert seeks relief under the following separate counts: 1) bad faith breach of contract (which Covert now moves to rename as promissory estoppel); 2) negligence associated with the recision of the promise of employment; 3) willful and wanton…