Camden, NJ – A federal judge has denied summary judgment in a long-running contract and fraud dispute involving a proprietary driver-history database and an alleged unpaid commission, clearing the way for the case to proceed to trial.
Chief U.S. District Judge Renée Marie Bumb ruled on December 23 that “genuine disputes of material fact are pervasive” in the case of Eric Poe v. Driver History Sales Corp. et al., rejecting a motion by defendants Stephen Esposito and Scott Nichols to dismiss the claims.
Plaintiff Eric Poe, a New Jersey insurance executive, alleges that Esposito and Nichols, along with their associates, conspired to deprive him of a 15% commission he was contractually owed for facilitating business deals related to a driver-history data product used by insurance companies for risk assessment…