Health Services Company’s Rival Must Return Confidential Docs

A health insurance services company’s former employees must turn over confidential documents and proprietary information they allegedly used to build a competing business, the Northern District of California said.

eHealthinsurance Services Inc. presented enough evidence to show it will likely succeed in its breach of contract and trade secret misappropriation claims against its former employees and competitor Healthpilot Technologies LLC, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California said Tuesday. The court granted eHealthinsurance a preliminary injunction.

A group of seven former employees entered into agreements with eHealthinsurance that required them to keep certain information confidential and to ...