Farmers Insurance alleges in a lawsuit that a former agent in Oklahoma conspired to move Farmers’ insureds to other insurance companies, including an agency where his wife works.
Farmers alleges that Bradley McKinney broke his Agent Appointment Agreement with Farmers by selling insurance policies for other carriers out of his Farmers Agency Office.
Before McKinney parted ways with Farmers in 2025, he downloaded his entire book of business and shared the confidential information with producers at another agency, the lawsuit alleges.
The lawsuit was filed on March 11 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
From 2010 to 2025, McKinney operated a Tulsa-based Farmers agency under the name McKinney Insurance & Financial Services. His wife, Tory McKinney, and producer Christopher Spicer worked for the agency until 2023, when they left to join existing Hometown Insurance Agency in Tulsa.
Late in 2023, Bradley McKinney began to divert Farmers’ insureds and insurance policies to Tory McKinney and Spicer at Hometown, the lawsuit alleges. Policies in force at Bradley McKinney’s Farmers agency began decreasing in 2023, continued to decrease in 2024, and decreased at an even more significant rate in the first four and a half months of 2025, Farmers says.
The lawsuit alleges that on Feb. 18, 2025, Bradley McKinney downloaded the entire book of business for his Farmers Agency in Excel. Two days after downloading the book of business, he submitted a letter to Farmers stating that he was terminating his agent appointment agreement, Farmers alleges.
Farmers’ proprietary customer data is protected through a secured sign-in process requiring multi-factor authentication, the carrier said in the lawsuit. Farmers specifically designates the information in the secured platforms as trade secrets.
Farmers terminated its Agent Appointment Agreement with Bradley McKinney on May 15, 2025, two weeks before his planned departure. He later joined Hometown, where he is currently employed.
Farmers is seeking actual and punitive damages at a jury trial.
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