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IMA sues Howden over alleged Pacific Northwest team raid - 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 IMA sues Howden over alleged Pacific Northwest team raid by Gavin Souter Agents and Brokers Howden Jun 18, 2026 IMA Financial Group has sued Howden and one of its former executives, alleging they orchestrated a raid on IMA’s Pacific Northwest marine insurance team and poached clients as part of a broader effort to expand Howden’s U.S. operations. In a complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court in Portland, Oregon, Parker, Smith & Feek Insurance LLC, IMA Financial Group Inc. and IMA Inc. v. Alexander Hamilton, Howden US Services LLC and Howden US Specialty LLC, IMA alleges that Mr. Hamilton, its former Pacific Northwest marine practice leader, breached contractual and fiduciary obligations by secretly working with Howden while still employed by the brokerage. According to the lawsuit, Mr. Hamilton met with Howden executives during an IMA-funded trip to London in January and later helped coordinate the resignations of six additional IMA marine practice employees. The departures represented more than 60% of IMA’s Pacific Northwest marine practice, the complaint alleges. IMA alleges Mr. Hamilton and Howden then solicited IMA clients. The brokerage says that at least four clients, who collectively account for hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual revenue, have since moved their business to Howden. The complaint alleges that Mr. Hamilton breached confidentiality, nonsolicitation and other provisions of his employment contract and that Howden intentionally interfered with those agreements. The lawsuit is one of several similar legal actions filed by rival brokerages, including Marsh, Aon, Brown & Brown, Alliant and Willis Towers Watson, alleging that Howden established its U.S. retail operations last year through coordinated team lift-outs and client solicitation. Howden has denied wrongdoing in several of those cases and has settled others. 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