Toussaint v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield

How courts have described this case

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• finding that policy statements can give rise to contractual rights without evidence that the parties mutually agreed that the policy statements created such rights
• reasoning that an employer’s oral statements coupled with its policy manuals could create an employment contract
• making employer policies and procedures a legally enforceable part of an employment relationship if such policies and procedures instill “legitimate expectations” of job security
• making employer policies and procedures a legally enforceable part of an employment relationship if such policies and procedures instill \legitimate expectations\ of job security
• distinguishing “satisfaction” contract in which only good faith review is possible from “just cause” contract
• Having first resolved the question of whether a contract existed under which the employee could be terminated only for cause, the jury could then determine the reason for the discharge and whether the contract was breached

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