Topic: Insurance Brokers
Courts Differ on Standard to Establish Fiduciary Status in Applications to Restrain Solicitation of Clients
April 9, 2020
Topics: Blog, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Insurance Brokers
Capital Direct Lending Corp. v. Blanchette, 2019 BCSC 1068; Brian L. Leipert Financial Services Ltd. v. Reiter, 2019 SKQB 310 Courts in BC and Saskatchewan come to opposite conclusions on whether the strong prima facie case threshold is applicable to establishing breach of fiduciary duty in claims for injunctive relief to prevent solicitation…
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Failure to Meet Irreparable Harm Test Sinks Both a Non-Solicit and Non-Compete Clause
September 8, 2012
Topics: Blog, Injunctions, Insurance Brokers, Non-Solicit Enforceability, Restrictive Covenants
As predicted earlier in this space, the British Columbia Court of Appeal’s decision in Edward Jones v. Voldeng, 2012 BCCA 295, is making it very difficult to enforce a non-solicit agreement in B.C. on an interim basis pending trial. In Hub International v. Redcliffe, 2012 BCSC 1280, one of the first decisions to apply Edward Jones,…
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