Inside 2025’s Talent War: producers, poachers and brokerages lawyer up

Court dockets lit up in 2025 as insurance brokerages pushed back against what they say was a surge in coordinated talent raids. From a long-running fight against Alliant to a new wave of lawsuits tied to Howden’s US expansion, a flurry of cases offer a window into how far poachers will go to assemble teams, what brokerages do and don’t do on defence and how willing producers are to gamble for outsized paydays.