6th Circuit Denies Rehearing After Holding Agents Were Independent Contractors

Mealey's (March 28, 2019, 2:32 PM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 25 denied a petition for rehearing en banc, leaving in place a Jan. 29 opinion in which a split panel held that American Family Insurance Co. and its affiliates properly classified their agents as independent contractors (Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al., No. 17-4125, 6th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 8994)....