Lindsay v. Cottingham & Butler Insurance Services, Inc.

WIGGINS, Justice.

An insurance brokerage firm provided its employee with a deferred compensation plan. The employee left his employment and began to work for another insurance brokerage firm. About fifteen months later, he began working at a third insurance brokerage firm, where he serviced clients of his original employer. When his original employer learned he was servicing its clients, it stopped paying his deferred compensation pursuant to the noncompete provisions of the deferred compensation plan. The employee then brought a declaratory judgment action to require payment of his deferred…