( April 14, 2020, 2:02 PM EDT) -- KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A federal judge in Kansas on April 13 ruled that a crop insurer failed to sufficiently plead its claims for state and federal trade secret law violations against a former employee because, although the insurer has shown that the former employee had access to its trade secrets and accessed those trade secrets before resigning and accepting employment with a competitor, it has failed to plausibly show that the former employee misappropriated those trade secrets (CGB Diversified Services Inc. v. Kane Adams, No. 20-2061, D. Kan., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 64132)....