Pitney Bowes, Inc. v. Berney Office Solutions

I concur fully in the main opinion, but write specially to elaborate as follows.

One of the cases relied on by Pitney and cited in the main opinion isSevier Insurance Agency, Inc. v. Willis Corron Corp., 711 So.2d 995 (Ala. 1998). In Sevier Insurance, the two employees signed a noncompetition agreement with their corporate employer, the validity and enforceability of which was an accepted, and apparently uncontested, premise in the case. That corporate employer "merged with and/or was taken over by [a corporate successor to the original corporate employer]." 711 So.2d at 996. Subsequently, the…