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Is Your Non-Compete Agreement Enforceable? It Depends On Where in New York You Are

​​Big I New York members often call our office with questions about non-compete agreements - Can I use one? How long can I make it effective? How broad can it be?  Attorney Bradley A. Hoppe​ has  a new blog post about a recent New York appellate court decision that illustrates that the answers depend on where in the state your agency is located.Specifically, in (King v. Marsh & McLennan Agency, LLC), the First Department again recognized the governing rule for courts (and companies and employees) located within the First and Second Departments (i.e., New York City and downstate counties) that a non-competition or non-solicitation covenant is unenforceable…

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On Our Mind…Thank You!

​By Allison Just, Meeting & Governance Manager Thank you! We put out a challenge to rock social media with how awesome it is to work in insurance. Rock you did. Not once did I see an agent with a briefcase at a kitchen table (what I used to think of insurance before I joined Big I NY; my parents tidying up before our agent came to our house). What did I – and the rest of the social media world – see?Smiling faces. People with their dogs. Babies on laps (future agents, perhaps?). Bags of groceries being donated to a neighborhood charity. Posts about being thankful…

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Big ‘I’ Praises Reintroduction of Main Street Tax Certainty Act

​Legislation to make small business deduction permanent reintroduced in House and Senate. WASHINGTON, DC, February 26, 2021— The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I") is grateful for the reintroduction of the “Main Street Tax Certainty Act" in the U.S. House of Representatives by Reps. Jason Smith (R-Missouri) and Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and in the U.S. Senate by Sen. Steve Daines (R-Montana). The legislation would make permanent a 20% deduction on qualified business income for some owners and shareholders of pass-through businesses.“The Big 'I' thanks Reps. Smith and Cuellar and Sen. Daines for their work to reintroduce the Main Street Tax Certainty Act,"…

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