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Brown & Brown Acquires Assets of Claims Firm ICA

Jan 2 2014 // Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired certain assets of insurance claims adjusting firm ICA Inc., based in Charlotte, North Carolina,Terms were not disclosed. With annualized net revenues of approximately $13.2 million, ICA...

People – Southeast

Nov 18 2013 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater has named Steve Burgess as the state’s new insurance consumer advocate. Burgess previously served in that role from 2004 to 2007 and from 1990 to 1997. Most recently, he...

Brown & Brown CFO Cory Walker to Retire in March 2014

Nov 4 2013 // Daytona Beach, Fla.-based brokerage Brown & Brown Inc. announced that Cory T. Walker, who has been serving as senior vice president, treasurer and chief financial officer, will retire from the firm effective in March...

Business Moves

Jul 22 2013 // Brown & Brown, Beecher CarlsonBrown & Brown Inc. completed the acquisition of Beecher Carlson Holdings Inc. from Austin Ventures, FSPM and a group of individual employee and non-employee equityholders for $336.5...

Brown & Brown Completes Beecher Carlson Acquisition

Jul 1 2013 // Brown & Brown Inc. said it has completed the previously-announced acquisition of Beecher Carlson Holdings Inc.In May, Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc. said it would buy the retail brokerage, program management and...

Business Moves

Jul 1 2013 // Heffernan, Consuasor InsuranceWalnut Creek, Calif.-based Heffernan Insurance Brokers recently acquired Consuasor Insurance Advisors in New York. Founded in 2006, Consuasor is a multi-lines middle market broker with offices...

Brown & Brown Expands ECC Brand, Names Division CEO

Jun 18 2013 // Florida-based national insurance agency Brown & Brown Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, ECC Insurance Brokers Inc., announced that its excess-and-surplus lines professional liability products will now be marketed...

Brown & Brown Announces Asset Acquisition of Rollins Agency in New York

Jun 10 2013 // Brown & Brown of New York Inc, a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., said it acquired certain assets of The Rollins Agency in Rye Brook, N.Y. With roots dating from 1910, The Rollins Agency provides a wide range of...

Brown & Brown to Acquire Insurance Broker Beecher Carlson

May 22 2013 // Florida-based national insurance agency Brown & Brown Inc. has agreed to acquire Beecher Carlson Holdings Inc., an insurance and risk management broker with operations that include retail brokerage, program management...

Brown & Brown’s 2012 Q4 Profit Up 16.8%

Feb 4 2013 // Florida-based national insurance brokerage Brown & Brown Inc. reported 2012 fourth-quarter net profit of $42.64 million, up 16.8 percent compared to the 2011 fourth quarter when the broker reported $36.49 million...

Brown & Brown Acquires Behnke & Associates in South Florida

Dec 18 2012 // Florida-based national insurance brokerage Brown & Brown Inc. announced this month asset acquisitions of Behnke & Associates Inc., an independent insurance agency located in South Florida. Founded in 1995, Behnke...

Business Moves – East

Dec 3 2012 // Onex Corp., USICanadian private equity firm Onex Corp. agreed to acquire insurance brokerage USI from Goldman Sachs Group’s GS Capital Partners private equity fund in a transaction valued at $2.3 billion. The deal is...

Brown & Brown Boosts Earnings in Q3, Sees Middle Market Improving

Oct 16 2012 // Florida-based national insurance broker Brown & Brown Inc. reported that net income for the third quarter of 2012 was up 12.1 percent to $49.5 million over the same quarter in 2011.J. Powell Brown, president and chief...

Brown & Brown Revenue Up 17.9% for Q2

Jul 17 2012 // Florida-based national insurance agency Brown & Brown Inc. reported total revenue for the second quarter was $290,916,000, an increase of 17.9 percent compared to 2011 second-quarter revenue of $246,816,000, Net income...

People – Southeast

Jun 18 2012 // Winter Park, Fla.-based insurance broker Kuykendall Gardner recently hired Brendan Loflin as vice president. In this role, he will be responsible for insurance and bond sales, new business development, client relations and...

Brown & Brown Names Downs, Lydecker to Top Posts

Jun 6 2012 // Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown Inc., one the country’s biggest, has named Linda S. Downs, currently regional president, as chief operating officer and named Charles H. Lydecker to the newly-created...

Business Moves – East

May 21 2012 // Brown & Brown, Richard W. EndlarBrown & Brown of Massachusetts LLC, a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., acquired assets of Richard W. Endlar Insurance Agency Inc. in Dedham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1975,...

Brown & Brown Acquires Insurcorp Assets

May 17 2012 // Brown & Brown Insurance of Nevada Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired certain assets of Insurcorp and Maalouf Benefit Resources, which recently combined under the name Insurcorp. Following the...

Brown & Brown Acquires Mass.-Based Richard W. Endlar Insurance Agency

May 10 2012 // Brown & Brown of Massachusetts LLC, a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., said it acquired assets of Richard W. Endlar Insurance Agency Inc. in Dedham, Massachusetts.Founded in 1975, Richard W. Endlar Insurance...

Business Moves – East

May 7 2012 // Worldwide Facilities, PrivettWorldwide Facilities, a Los Angeles-based independent surplus-lines broker and managing general agency, acquired assets of Privett Special Risk Services, a New York City-based wholesaler....