Welcome to this week's recap. The news and top producer insights you need, without the snoozefest. Today: 5 briefs. 1 norm pod. 1 quicky pod. 1 poll. 0 boring. Let’s roll!

WTW is suing Howden and five of it’s former Fort Lauderdale yacht brokers who jumped ship… pun intended… between December and January… allegedly taking client lists and accounts with them. This is just the latest prize. Since dropping anchor in the U.S. last August, Howden has been plundering entire practice teams from Marsh, Aon, Brown & Brown, and Alliant. Courts have had enough, and injunctions are piling up.

Sedgwick's Q1 2026 Product Safety and Recall Index dropped this week, and the headline is a bit of a head-scratcher: fewer recall events at -10.5%… but a 27% surge in units recalled at 492 million total, a four-year high. Translation? The recalls that are happening are massive. Pharma hit a four-year high at 218 million units. Autos posted their worst quarter in two years. Consumer products saw a jaw-dropping 347% spike in units. Geopolitical chaos… think Iran conflict rippling through supply chains… is making everything worse.

NOAA dropped its 2026 Atlantic hurricane season forecast Thursday, and for once it's not a doomsday headline. El Niño is expected to crank up wind shear across the Atlantic, putting a damper on storm development. NOAA is calling for just 8–14 named storms and only 1–3 major hurricanes, well below the typical season's 14 named storms and 3 major hurricanes. Before your coastal P&C clients do a happy dance and start trimming coverage, pump the brakes. NOAA's own forecasters said it best, "it only takes one storm."

The White House had big plans Thursday… Trump was set to sign an executive order requiring AI developers to hand over frontier models to the government 90 days before public release, with critical infrastructure players like banks getting early access too. Then... Trump yanked it at the last minute, citing concerns it could slow America's AI lead over China. For your cyber clients, the takeaway is the same either way: AI-powered cyberattacks are the threat du jour, and Washington can't agree on guardrails.

NCCI's latest workplace violence report is out, and the numbers are sobering: between 400–500 workers are killed on the job every year… and that number hasn't budged in over a decade. Shootings account for more than 80% of cases, and the targets aren't random. Retail workers, food service employees, transportation drivers, late-night cash handlers… essentially your midmarket clients' frontline workforce. Quick question: When’s the last time you reviewed your clients' workplace violence coverage?

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