Comp360, LLC v. KT Enterprises, LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
I. BACKGROUND
As insurance brokers, Comp360 and KT Enterprises provide workers with
compensation insurance through their companies and compete for clients who seek to purchase workers compensation insurance. (Doc. at 1; Doc. at 4.) Summit Consulting, LLC, is a workers compensation insurance carrier with offices in the southeastern states. (Doc. 21 § 16; Doc. 25-1 at 2.) Eddie Bryant, a resident of Los Angeles
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County, California, works for KT Enterprises. (Doc. 21 § 4.) Kevin Taban is also a resident of Los Angeles County, California, (id. 3), and the founder of KT Enterprises, (Doc.
at 20). On November 24, 2021, KT Enterprises brought an action against Comp360, its principal Fielding Dickey, and Does 1- in California state court. (Doc. at 3.) Comp360 and Dickey subsequently removed to the Central District of California. (Id. at 5); see KT Enters. LLC v. Comp360 LLC, No. 22-cv-0411 (C.D. Cal. Jan. 20, 2022). In that action, KT Enterprises alleges five causes of action: (1) defamation per se; (2) defamation per …