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Vouch Insurance has appointed Brandon Kaufman as Head of Claims to lead its claims advocacy function for technology company clients. Kaufman joins from EPIC, where he served as Vice President of Claims, advising on complex, high-exposure claims and loss ratio reduction. In his new role, Kaufman will guide Vouch's more than 6,000 clients through the claims lifecycle, from initial notice to resolution. His responsibilities include developing strategies for complex claims and serving as an advocate between clients, carriers, and third-party administrators. Kaufman brings experience from multiple sectors, including in-house counsel roles at advertising technology and mobility startups, where he managed global insurance programmes and claims. The appointment follows Vouch's July leadership expansion, which included a new Chief Operating Officer and Head of Client Management.

Vouch bites back: moves to dismiss Corgi lawsuit and alleges Corgi co-founder probed Vouch's platform to get head start. July 21, 2026 Protect your company with Vouch today Vouch, Inc. has filed a motion to dismiss in its entirety the trade-secret lawsuit brought against it by Corgi Insurance. In court filings submitted on July 10, Vouch argues that Corgi's case rests on documents that Corgi provides to every customer, that the case belongs in arbitration under Corgi's own terms, and that it was Corgi's co-founder, not Vouch, who allegedly used a competitor's quoting system to obtain a head start. The filings respond to a suit Corgi Insurance Services, Inc. and Technology Risk Retention Group, Inc. filed in April and amended in June in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Corgi alleges that Vouch's Chief Legal & Administrative Officer, Kelly Wulff, posed as an applicant on Corgi's platform, obtained a policy, and extracted proprietary information before canceling the policy days later. Corgi's claims include trade secret misappropriation under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act and Delaware law, plus fraud, civil conspiracy, unjust enrichment, and, in its amended complaint, false advertising and tortious interference. Vouch's court filings contend that Corgi's account is false. "Corgi rushed to court on bad information," the company said in its motion to dismiss. "The story conjured in Corgi's First Amended Complaint does not stand up to scrutiny, or square with common sense." "Not trade secrets at all" At the center of the dispute, according to Vouch's court filings, is what Wulff actually obtained. Corgi describes a scheme to capture confidential underwriting intelligence. Vouch's motion to dismiss describes something more ordinary: filling out an insurance application that Corgi invites all website visitors to complete, and receiving policy documents that Corgi "routinely sends to every purchaser of Corgi insurance, without any confidentiality markings, and without any limitation on how the documents may be shared." "These are not trade secrets at all," the motion said. Vouch's motion also disputes the premise that Vouch had anything to gain. Corgi's "suggestion that Vouch was trying to 'steal' its online insurance questionnaire is absurd," the motion states, noting that Vouch has run its own online intake flow "for over 7 years." A trade secret claim, Vouch's motion argues, requires both genuinely secret information and reasonable measures to protect it. The motion contends Corgi's amended complaint pleads neither and suffers from numerous additional defects. Vouch's motion makes a similar argument about Corgi's false advertising claim, which, according to the motion, centers on one statement made by a Vouch salesperson calling the difference between the two companies' products "the difference between insurance that checks a box and insurance that actually pays." That statement, Vouch's motion argues, is non-actionable "puffery" of the kind courts routinely dismiss. Corgi's alleged misuse of Vouch's platform. Vouch's motion to dismiss also levels a striking counter-accusation. Shortly after Corgi incorporated in 2024, according to Vouch's motion to dismiss, Corgi co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Emily Yuan "twice navigated through Vouch's online insurance application flow (using two different email addresses)," toggled coverages, and "obtained a half-dozen unique price quotes." At least one other senior Corgi employee did the same from a Corgi email address, the motion says, citing industry commentary calling Corgi's application flow and offerings "nearly identical" to Vouch's. "It was Corgi (not Vouch) that unlawfully used competitive information to get a head start," Vouch's motion said. According to the filing, "Corgi's co-founder Ms. Yuan engaged in precisely the conduct that Corgi falsely accuses Defendants of carrying out." Vouch's motion to dismiss says the point will be "the subject of discovery and proof at the appropriate time and place." Vouch moves to compel arbitration. In a separate brief filed concurrently with its motion to dismiss, Vouch argues that Corgi's case never belonged in court because the same Corgi website terms of use that Corgi invokes against Vouch contain a broad and mandatory arbitration clause. Vouch's motion to compel arbitration asks the court to send the dispute to arbitration and to make Corgi pay Vouch's fees incurred in filing the motion. Vouch's motion casts Corgi's suit as one of three Corgi has brought against competitors in the past year, "brought for anticompetitive purposes, not to protect intellectual property." "We look forward to presenting the facts," a Vouch spokesperson said, "which will show that it is Corgi, not Vouch, that has engaged in wrongdoing." The case is Technology Risk Retention Group, Inc. and Corgi Insurance Services, Inc. v. Vouch, Inc., et al., C.A. No. 1:26-cv-00426-RGA, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Vouch is represented by Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP and Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP. Read Vouch's motion to dismiss here and its motion to compel arbitration here and here. Suggested articles Your ambition deserves protection. INDUSTRIES Insurance services provided by Vouch Specialty Insurance Services, LLC. 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