Latest Brown & Brown Headlines

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Brown & Brown Promotes Downs to EVP for Leadership Development

Jan 10 2006 // Linda S. Downs, a Brown & Brown regional executive vice president has been promoted to the newly formed position of executive vice president for leadership development.According to J. Hyatt Brown, chairman and CEO of...

Brown & Brown Completes Axiom Intermediaries Acquisition

Jan 4 2006 // The acquisition of the assets of Axiom Intermediaries LLC of Stony Creek, N.C. has been completed by Brown & Brown Inc. of Daytona Beach, Fla. Axiom Intermediaries, with approximately $14.0 million in annualized...

People & Places

Dec 19 2005 // Clint Bothwell has been named Southeast regional president for Harleysville Insurance and will work in its new Atlanta regional office. The company also named other regional field organization leaders as it realigned the...

People

Dec 18 2005 // Clint Bothwell has been named Southeast regional president for Harleysville Insurance and will work in its new Atlanta regional office. The company also named other regional field organization leaders as it realigned the...

Brown & Brown Agrees to Acquire Axiom Intermediaries

Dec 14 2005 // A definitive agreement for a Brown & Brown subsidiary to acquire the assets of Axiom Intermediaries LLC has been signed by Jim W. Henderson, Brown & Brown president and COO, and Horace M. “Jay”...

Brown & Brown Acquires de Arrieta Insurance Agency

Dec 2 2005 // The acquisition of de Arrieta Insurance Agency Inc. with offices in Carson City and Elko, Nev. has been announced jointly by Kenneth D. Kirk, Brown & Brown Inc.’s regional executive vice president, and James A....

Brown & Brown Forms New Public Entity Reporting Region

Nov 14 2005 // Jim W. Henderson, president and COO of Brown & Brown Inc. of Daytona Beach and Tampa, Fla. has announced the formation of a new reporting region within the Company. Brown & Brown Public Entity Services will focus...

Brown & Brown Acquires Timothy R. Downey Insurance

Nov 1 2005 // The acquisition of Timothy R. Downey Insurance Inc., dba. Downey Insurance of Kokomo, Ind. has been jointly announced by Jim W. Henderson, Brown & Brown Inc. president and CEO and Timothy R. Downey, Downey Insurance...

Brown & Brown Announces a Two-For-One Stock Split, 25 Percent Increase in Quarterly Cash Dividend

Oct 19 2005 // Daytona Beach and Tampa, Fla.-based Brown & Brown Inc. has announced that its board of directors, at its regularly scheduled Oct. 19 meeting, voted a two-shares for one-share stock split of its common stock, to be...

Brown & Brown Reports New Records for Revenues, Income in Q3 Numbers

Oct 17 2005 // Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc. announced net income for the third quarter of 2005 of $34,783,000, or $0.50 per share, an increase of 15.6% from the $30,086,000, or $0.43 per share, reported for the quarter ended...

Weible & Cahill of Illinois Added to Brown & Brown

Oct 14 2005 // The assets of Lisle, Ill.-based insurance agency Weible & Cahill LLC have been acquired by Tampa, Fla. brokerage Brown & Brown Inc. Weible & Cahill, with annualized revenues of approximately $7.5 million, is...

Brown & Brown Acquires Sleeping Giant Agency in Colo.

Sep 2 2005 // Brown & Brown Inc. of Tampa and Daytona Beach, Fla. has acquired the assets of The Fossi Group Inc. doing business as Sleeping Giant Agency Inc. of Steamboat Springs, Colo. The acquisition was announced jointly by...

Brown & Brown Acquires Nichols Agency in Philadelphia, Pa.

Sep 1 2005 // Nichols & Assoc., of Philadelphia, Pa., has been acquired by Brown & Brown of Tampa and Daytona Beach, Fla., according a joint announcement by Thomas E. Riley, regional president of Brown & Brown Inc. and...

Business Moves

Aug 8 2005 // Berkshire Hathaway, General ElectricOmaha, Neb.-based Berkshire Hathaway and Kansas City, Mo.-based General Electric announced that GE Insurance Solutions’ sale of Medical Protective Corporation to Columbia...

Brown & Brown Acquires Alliance Insurance Services

Aug 2 2005 // Kenneth D. Kirk, regional executive vice president of Brown & Brown Inc., and William A. “Bill” White, president of AAI Inc. d/b/a Alliance Insurance Services, of Canoga Park, California, announced the...

Brown & Brown Inc. 2Q Results Show 15 Percent Profit

Jul 19 2005 // Brown & Brown Inc. with headquarters in Daytona Beach and Tampa, Fla. announced net income for the second quarter of 2005 of $37,033,000, or $0.53 per share, an increase of 15.2 percent from the $32,153,000, or $0.46...

Gill Joins Brown & Brown

Jul 6 2005 // Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc. announced that Michael Gill has joined the company as executive vice president and Profit Center manager of its Villari & Associates division based in Ft. Lauderdale. Gill joins...

Brown & Brown Moves Three Programs to ACE Westchester Speciality Group

Jul 5 2005 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced a program alliance with ACE Westchester Specialty Group. Effective July 1, 2005, ACE Westchester Specialty Group will provide coverage through ACE American Insurance Company and other...

Brown & Brown Moves Lawyer’s PL Program to Greenwich

Jun 27 2005 // Brown & Brown Inc. today announced that Greenwich Insurance Company, XL Capital Ltd’s US- based primary insurer (Greenwich), will become the new carrier for the Lawyer’s Protector Plan (LPP) insurance...

Brown & Brown Acquires BeneTec Inc. of Ark.

Jun 8 2005 // Florida’s Brown & Brown Inc. reported its asset acquisition of BeneTec Inc. of Arkansas headquartered in Rogers, Ark. The announcement regarding the acquisition was made jointly by C. Roy Bridges, regional...