Brown & Brown Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend

Brown & Brown Inc., with headquarters in Daytona Beach and Tampa, Fla. has announced that its board of directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $.08 per share. The dividend is payable on May 19, 2005, to shareholders of record on May 5, 2005.

Brown & Brown Inc. and its subsidiaries offer a broad range of insurance and reinsurance products and services, as well as risk management, employee benefit administration, and managed health care programs.