Florida Risk Planning Consultants, Inc. v. Transport Life Insurance Company

ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.

The issue presented is whether the plaintiff is entitled to commissions for procuring insurance business for the defendants. Because the plaintiff is not a licensed insurance agent for the defendants, we hold that commissions may not be recovered. Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants.

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The plaintiff, Florida Risk Planning Consultants (“FRP”), is an organization that produces insurance business. Beginning in 1973, FRP acted as an agent for the Zurich Insurance Company in the production of cancer-expense…