USI Says Lockton, Former Team Leader Poached Workers, Harmed Client Relations

USI Insurance Services, 1 of the largest brokerages successful the country, has filed suit against a erstwhile income squad person and different powerhouse broker, Lockton, accusing them of poaching employees and harming lawsuit relationships.

Elisia Hahnenberg, who began her vocation astatine USI arsenic an intern and roseate to pb a squad of relationship executives, breached non-compete agreements and brought 3 USI salespeople with her erstwhile she jumped vessel to Lockton past year, the national suit contends.

“Lockton and Ms. Hahnenberg person acted successful performance to unlawfully and wrongfully poach the enactment unit from the (sales) squad successful bid to cripple USI’s quality to supply services to its clients and to yet person the clients to power their worker benefits broker to Lockton,” the April 11 ailment reads.

USI, with offices successful Atlanta and New York, is asking for compensatory and punitive damages, an injunction requiring that the defendants comply with employment and non-interference agreements, arsenic good arsenic lawyer fees.

Hahnenberg and Lockton person not yet filed an reply to the complaint, filed successful national tribunal successful Atlanta.

The suit was filed 1 week aft different large security broker, Brown & Brown, based successful Florida, charged successful a national lawsuit that a erstwhile vice president had poached 3 twelve clients and created a competing security business.

Lockton, privately owned by the Lockton family, has offices successful Atlanta and successful Kansas City.

The ailment notes that Hahnenberg was hired arsenic an intern successful 2012 and aboriginal became worker benefits squad leader, based successful Atlanta. She oversaw 9 relationship executives and had entree to USI commercialized secrets and proprietary systems, the suit explains. Those systems see Omni, a level that helps USI supply customized solutions for clients.

In May 2024, Hahnenberg submitted her resignation. Two days later, she attempted to download confidential USI files to a mobile device, the ailment alleges. A fewer weeks later, she started enactment for Lockton. USI reminded her of her employment agreement, which barred her for astatine slightest 2 years from inducing different USI employees to permission the company.

“USI is present successful a susceptible presumption with the imaginable for continued nonaccomplishment of Atlanta Account Executives and continued concern harm and goodwill owed to Defendants’ improper actions,” the suit reads.

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