Baptist Physicians Lexington, Inc. v. New Lexington Clinic, P.S.C.

Opinion of the Court by

Justice ABRAMSON.

Appellants Michael McKinney, M.D, Gregory Cooper, M.D. and James Winkley, M.D. (the “Physicians”) are former employees of The New Lexington Clinic (“NLC”) who resigned from that medical practice in early 2008 to practice at a nearby facility opened by Baptist Healthcare System, Inc. through its subsidiary Baptist Physicians Lexington, Inc. (collectively “Baptist.”) Although the Physicians’ employment agreements allowed for their departure on sixty days’ notice and, subject to certain conditions, even their competition with their former employer, NLC…