Insurance brokerage Marsh Canada Ltd. has filed suit in BC Supreme Court against a former employee and a rival brokerage.
The suit, filed July 25, names former Marsh vice-president Robert Lightfoot and insurance brokerage HUB International Canada West ULC as defendants.
The court document alleges that, after Lightfoot resigned from Marsh and took a job with HUB in March, he breached a confidentiality, ownership rights and non-solicitation agreement (CORNSA) with Marsch and allegedly solicited Marsh clients for his new employer. It further claims that HUB “encouraged or participated” in Lightfoot’s alleged solicitation of Marsh clients.
Marsh claims that it has suffered business losses as a result of the defendants’ alleged actions.
Marsh is seeking damages from Lightfoot for breach of the CORNSA. Marsh is seeking, from both defendants:
•a constructive trust over all contracts, business opportunities and benefits derived from the alleged use of Marsh’s confidential information;
•an accounting; and
•injunctions restraining breach of confidence and requiring the defendants to identify and return all of Marsh’s allegedly-taken confidential information.
None of these allegations has been proven in court.
As of press time, no response to the civil claim had been filed.
