After luring away a team of executives from Aon Ltd.'s Financial Services Group earlier this month, London-based broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group has found itself on the opposite end of some employee defections.

Per the Insurance Insider, Lloyd's broker Price Forbes has persuaded senior energy casualty brokers Simon Edwards and Julian Wilson to leave Lloyd & Partners Ltd., the London-based wholesale and energy specialty arm of JLT, and join Price Forbes.

Messrs. Edwards and Wilson reportedly resigned from Lloyd & Partners Monday and were sent on garden leave Wednesday. Both have 12-month notice periods in their employment contracts.

Another senior member of the Lloyd & Partners' energy casualty team, Peter Burton, is still on garden leave following his resignation last year, according to the Insider. Mr. Burton is reportedly joining Arthur J. Gallagher International's two-year-old energy wholesale start-up Alesco Risk Management Services.

Much could be at state for JLT as the Lloyd & Partners energy casualty teams' clients include such energy giants as Houston-based Helix Energy Solutions Group, Houston-based Cal Dive International Inc., Carlyss, La.-based Global Industries Ltd., San Francisco-based URS Corp. and Houston-based Rowan Cos. Inc., per the Insider