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Court denies motions by Brown & Brown and Howden in broker raid case - Business Insurance Skip to content Register for free Search Search Log In Risk Management Cyber Risks Pricing Trends Mergers & Acquisitions Technology Sponsored Content WSIA RISKWORLD Workers Comp & Safety Workers Comp Cost Control Pain Management Workplace Safety International EMEA Asia-Pacific Latin America People Events BI Intelligence Top 100 Agents & Brokers Best Places to Work 2025 Lists Directories Insurance Pricing BI Stock Index Magazine Current Issue Past Issues Subscribe Women to Watch ALL INsurance Resources Risk Perspectives Sponsored Content Webinars White Papers Risk Management Cyber Risks Pricing Trends Mergers & Acquisitions Technology Sponsored Content WSIA RISKWORLD Workers Comp & Safety Workers Comp Cost Control Pain Management Workplace Safety International EMEA Asia-Pacific Latin America People Events BI Intelligence Top 100 Agents & Brokers Best Places to Work 2025 Lists Directories Insurance Pricing BI Stock Index Magazine Current Issue Past Issues Subscribe Women to Watch ALL INsurance Resources Risk Perspectives Sponsored Content Webinars White Papers Risk Management Cyber Risks Pricing Trends Mergers & Acquisitions Technology Sponsored Content WSIA RISKWORLD Workers Comp & Safety Workers Comp Cost Control Pain Management Workplace Safety International EMEA Asia-Pacific Latin America People Events BI Intelligence Top 100 Agents & Brokers Best Places to Work 2025 Lists Directories Insurance Pricing BI Stock Index Magazine Current Issue Past Issues Subscribe Women to Watch ALL INsurance Resources Risk Perspectives Sponsored Content Webinars White Papers Risk Management Cyber Risks Pricing Trends Mergers & Acquisitions Technology Sponsored Content WSIA RISKWORLD Workers Comp & Safety Workers Comp Cost Control Pain Management Workplace Safety International EMEA Asia-Pacific Latin America People Events BI Intelligence Top 100 Agents & Brokers Best Places to Work 2025 Lists Directories Insurance Pricing BI Stock Index Magazine Current Issue Past Issues Subscribe Women to Watch ALL INsurance Resources Risk Perspectives Sponsored Content Webinars White Papers Court denies motions by Brown & Brown and Howden in broker raid case by Gavin Souter Agents and Brokers Brown & Brown , Howden May 12, 2026 A Massachusetts judge denied motions by Brown & Brown to broaden a temporary restraining order against Howden US over an alleged employee raid, while also rejecting Howden’s motions to dismiss the case. In an order issued May 8, Justice Kenneth Salinger in Massachusetts Superior Court rejected Brown & Brown’s request to impose broader restrictions that would have barred Howden and former Brown & Brown employees from accepting or servicing customers who left the brokerage after Dec. 29, 2025, even if the customers had no prior connection to the individual defendants. The judge said Brown & Brown had “no legitimate interest in obtaining an order that would protect them from ordinary competition, untainted by any allegedly unlawful conduct.” Brown & Brown sued Howden in December , alleging that the London-based brokerage orchestrated a holiday-season “employee raid” involving about 200 staff from Brown & Brown offices in Massachusetts and several Midwestern states. The judge in the Massachusetts case issued a TRO in January . In an April filing, Brown & Brown alleged that Howden and several former employees violated the TRO by soliciting customers and accepting broker-of-record letters after a court-imposed deadline. The filing cited internal WhatsApp messages, including one in which a former Brown employee allegedly wrote, “Ask forgiveness folks not permission.” Howden denied the allegations, arguing that many of the cited clients were not covered by the restraining order because they were not serviced by the individual defendants during their time at Brown & Brown or because the clients never transferred business to Howden. It characterized its acceptance of two BORs after the deadline as an inadvertent oversight. The court also denied motions by Howden and the former employees to dismiss the case, ruling that Brown & Brown had plausibly alleged claims, including breach of contract, aiding and abetting breaches of fiduciary duty. Last week, in a related case, a Minnesota judge partially granted Brown & Brown’s motion for a temporary injunction against Howden U.S. and 16 former employees. Howden has hired hundreds of employees from rivals since launching its U.S. retail brokerage operation last year . 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