Cox v. MAG Mutual Insurance Co. et al
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MEMORANDUM OPINION. Signed by District Judge John A. Gibney, Jr on 04/09/2015. (tjoh, )
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
Richmond Division
THOMAS P. COX,
Plaintiff,
V.
Civil Case No. 3:14-cv-377-JAG
MAG MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, et al.
Defendants.
OPINION
Thomas Cox, an insurance salesman, brings this suit because he thinks an insurance
agency teamed up with an insurance carrier to steal some of his customers. Unfortunately, his
factual allegations do not go beyond the speculative, so the Court must dismiss his case. Cox
tries to state claims of conspiracy and tortious interference with his contract and with his
business expectancies, but his complaint lacks any allegations that push his claim from
guesswork to a plausible claim. Consequently, the Court GRANTS the defendants' motions to
dismiss, filed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6).
I. Facts
Beside the plaintiff, this case contains three major characters: (1) MAG Mutual Insurance
Company, an insurance carrier that provides medical malpractice insurance; (2) Riggs,
Counselman, Michaels & Downes, Inc. ("RCMD"), an insurance agency that sells MAG
insurance; and (3) Charles Lunsford Sons & Associates, another insurance agency that sells
various brands of insurance in the medical field.
From 2005 until 2009, Cox worked for RCMD as a salesman. By his account, he built a
number of customer relationships, and sold a great deal of MAG insurance. In 2009, RCMD
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