Brown & Brown wins $20mn to end Assured poaching case

A poaching dispute between Florida-based broker AssuredPartners
and national intermediary Brown & Brown has ended in a $20mn
settlement bringing to a close another round of litigation between
the two firms.
Assured agreed to hand over the money after a court in the
Sunshine State blocked eight of its employees - who had defected
from Daytona Beach-based Brown & Brown - from interacting with
their former employer's clients.
In a preliminary decision in October last year, Seventh Circuit
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