The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases
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Author: Frank B. Cross; Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Chapter 13, Problem 6BCP
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Case summary: Person RM works as an agent for the insurance agency of his father. Person RM contacted another agency FIA for joining as an agent. According to the rules of the agency FIA, RM is not eligible for becoming an agent because his father was also involved in the same kind of work. Agency FIA did not inform RM about policy and none of the documents signed at the time of joining expressed the same. After three years, FIA terminated RM because his father was part of the same occupation. RM filed a suit against FIA for prompting him to leave the agency of his father.
To find:The damages to be awarded to person RM for legal injury.
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