Legal Opinion
Bernard Litman v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 27, 1984No. 83-5025PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAY, Circuit Judge:
Appellant, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (herein Mass Mutual), appeals from a final judgment in favor of one of its former general agents, appellee Bernard Litman, in the amount of $2,500,-234. A jury, sitting in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, awarded $2,000,234 for the breach by Mass Mutual of an orally modified general agent’s contract in the company’s 1977 termination of Litman. The jury awarded $100,000 in damages for a slanderous statement made by a Mass Mutual spokesman to a prospective employer who had solicited…
2Cases cited41 opinions
- Larry Bonner v. City of Prichard, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1981
- The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. ShipmanCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Wackenhut Corp. v. CantySupreme Court of Florida · 1978
- Irving Sulmeyer and Arnold L. Kupetz, Co-Trustees in Bankruptcy for Bubble Up Corporation v. Coca Cola CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
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3Cited by39 opinions
- Holt Oil & Gas Corporation and Faywin Investments, Pty. Ltd., Plaintiffs-Counter v. Ralph L. Harvey, Defendant-CounterCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
- Bernard Litman v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1987
- Crump v. P & C Food Markets, Inc.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1990
- Finch v. City of VernonCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1989
- Lipsig v. RamlawiDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2000
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