EPIC settles Gallagher dispute
California’s Edgewood Partners Insurance Center (EPIC) has settled a pending lawsuit by fellow brokerage Arthur J Gallagher, bringing the dispute to a “mutually agreeable and confidential resolution.” A J Gallagher filed the late-2007 lawsuit in US District Court in San Francisco, alleging that start-up EPIC engaged in a “sneak attack”, raiding its Bay Area staff and taking 47 of 76 employees in the San Ramon office, including its top two executives.