Farm Bureau Life Insurance v. American National Insurance

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• concluding that the plaintiffs “raised genuine disputes of material fact regarding whether [they] took reasonable steps to maintain the secrecy of [their] alleged trade secrets,” which included customer lists and information relating to compensation and commission rates
• finding that a reasonable jury could conclude that the plaintiff’s alleged trade secrets, including its employee compensation information, had been misappropriated by the defendant
• finding there was a triable issue on whether precautions were reasonable, even though customer lists were available without confidentiality or nondisclosure agreement
• denying summary judgment because an employee’s plans to leave his company and “recruit its top producers to join him” at another company raised a genuine dispute of a material fact as to whether the employee breached his fiduciary duty of loyalty to his employer

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