COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY RELIEF AND DEMAND FOR ...

Exhibit 2.A. p 1. Copies of the referenced documents, as they existed in November of1999, have been filed contemporaneously with this Complaint and are as follows:Supplement (Exhibit 3); Independent Contractor Manual (Exhibit 4); Agency Standards(Exhibit 5).1. Contractual Terms Concerning Sales to Existing Agents27. The Agreement provides the agent “an economic interest” in his or her bookof business and provides that “[s]ubject to the terms and conditions set forth in thisagreement and the incorporated supplement and EA Manual, [the agent] may transfer hisentire economic interest in the business written under this Agreement upon termination ofthis Agreement by selling the economic interest in the business to an approved buyer.”Exhibit 2.A, p 7.28. The Independent Contractor Manual, consistent with the representations madein the Preparing for the Future information booklet, confirms agents’ right to sell theirinterest in the book of business to another Allstate agent. Exhibit 4, p 25.29. The manual sets forth four specific business requirements, consistent with therepresentations made in the Preparing for the Future information booklet, that must bemet by an existing agent who seeks to purchase another agent’s economic interest in thebook of business. Exhibit 4, p 25. Those requirements are as follows:a. Buying agent must have sixty-five (65%) percent or less adjusted,capped, paid casualties loss ratio;