Case: Individual Employment Rights/At-will Employees (6th Cir.)

Time Warner Cable, Inc. isn’t liable to 10 former sales employees on their claims of fraud, negligent misrepresentation and promissory estoppel that were based on alleged oral promises of continued employment and better pay after Time Warner acquired their previous employer Insight Communications, Inc. It wasn’t reasonable for the employees to detrimentally rely on the alleged promises after reading and electronically acknowledging an Important Notice of their at-will status. Kentucky law is clear that a party cannot rely on oral representations that conflict with written disclaimers to the contrary, the court said. The case is Bisig v. Time Warner Cable, Inc., 2019 BL 380999, 6th Cir., 18-5421/5483, 10/4/19