Ward v. American Mutual Liability Insurance

The defendant appeals from judgments entered in the Superior Court awarding the plaintiffs damages for the defendant’s breach of written employment agreements. We affirm.

The cases were consolidated for trial in the Superior Court and referred to a master whose findings of fact were to be final. We summarize the facts found by the master.

The defendant is an insurance company engaged in issuing policies providing broad lines of liability and casualty insurance. Each plaintiff signed a form employment agree ment as a condition of his employment. The agreement provided, among other things, that…