Aon Wins Preliminary Injunction in Lawsuit

Late last month, a New York court granted Aon Risk Services Northeast a preliminary injunction involving its former executive. The Supreme Court of the State of New York said it is temporarily barring Michael Cusack (the former Aon executive who is now with Alliant Insurance Services) and Alliant from purportedly taking customers and employees away from Aon. Aon sued Cusack last summer, alleging that the executive breached a noncompete agreement by going to work for a rival insurance broker. Aon charges Cusack helped recruit some 40 other Aon employees, including several senior executives, to join Alliant’s new construction services group.