An Ohio insurance firm lost its bid to enforce a non-solicitation agreement against a former vice president whose clients followed him when he jumped to a competitor, a federal appeals court ruled.
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a district court decision blocking former James B. Oswald Co. vice president market leader Dennis Neate and other former Oswald employees from soliciting the firm’s customers or workers and from “copying, using, or disclosing any Oswald confidential, proprietary, or trade secret information.”
Neate was recruited by Oswald in 2016 to serve as vice president market leader ...
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