Olson
Olson v. World Financial Group Insurance Agency, LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
I. BACKGROUND
24 The Court has detailed the background of this consolidated action in several orders. See, 25 e.g., ECF No. 57. At a high-level, this case involves the Olsons’ departure from their former 26 employer, WFG. WFG is a multi-level marketing company that employs thousands of agents who 27 sell insurance products. The Olsons started a new competing company called Global Financial Impact, LLC (“GFI”), that also sells insurance products. The Olsons and WFG have brought claims against one another arising out of WFG’s Agent Agreements and based on circumstances surrounding the Olsons’ decision to leave WFG. GFI and WFG also have pending claims against each other for unfair competition, tortious interference with contract, and similar claims. From the Olsons’ perspective, WFG fosters a toxic working environment and uses illegal agreements to threaten workers who seek to leave. In WFG’s view, the Olsons disregarded their contractual obligations and concocted a scheme to steal WFG’s confidential information before leaving the company to start GFI. Procedurally, this case is somewhat complicated. Before the Court…