Question juridique clé
Whether the contractual commission clause made commissions payable only upon insurers' acceptance of the proposals.
Solution extraite
The clause is to be understood as making the commission dependent on acceptance of the proposals by the insurance company; the appellate court's contrary view was unsustainable, and the case had to be remanded because the factual basis was incomplete.
Motifs extraits
The wording of the clause, read together with the related contractual provisions, points to a condition tied to acceptance; this also accords with Art. 322b CO and the economic function of commissions. The cantonal record did not establish the year-by-year allocation of commissions needed for the calculation.