American Accident &Life Ins. v. American Pioneer Life Ins.

I share the views expressed by the Chief Justice. The contract involved was clearly one giving a controlling or preemptive right to an agency manager to produce substantially all insurance business for the insurer.

I feel that I should express my views on the means by which the majority reach a result permitting recovery under this contract. If the statute in question were designed only for protection of insurance companies, I would not feel so alarmed by a result which leads to its easy circumvention. Obviously, this statute was designed not only to protect uninformed investors but, more…