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Brown & Brown to Acquire Tennessee Bank’s First Horizon Insurance

Apr 1 2011 // Brown & Brown has agreed to acquire First Horizon Insurance Group Inc. from First Tennessee Bank. The acquisition is expected to close in late April of this year. With annualized revenues of approximately $14.8...

Brown & Brown Acquires Louisiana’s Robert Ellis & Associates

Mar 11 2011 // Brown & Brown of Louisiana Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all of the insurance agency assets of Robert Ellis & Associates Inc. of Mandeville, La., the companies...

People

Feb 21 2011 // Mark D. Purfield New Jersey-based broker The McIntyre Group has named Mark D. Purfield as a marketing executive responsible for business development. Previously, Purfield was vice president of Wells Fargo Insurance...

Brown & Brown Acquires Two Massachusetts Agencies

Feb 17 2011 // Brown & Brown has acquired United Benefit Services and Beverly T. Gottlieb & Associates, two metro-Boston agencies specializing in employee benefits and related insurance products. Terms of the deal were not...

Business Moves

Feb 10 2011 // A.J. Gallagher; Herbruck, Alder; Behnke & Co.; Premier Risk Services Illinois-based global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. reported the acquisitions of Herbruck, Alder & Co., an employee benefit...

Business Moves

Feb 7 2011 // Brown & Brown, Balcos Insurance, Mike Howard Insurance Brown & Brown Inc. subsidiary Brown & Brown of Washington Inc. acquired substantially all of the assets of Balcos Insurance, Inc. and M C H Inc. of Seattle...

Brown & Brown Names 4 Regional Vice Presidents

Feb 7 2011 // Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown, Inc. has named regional vice presidents in Washington, Florida, Louisiana and Pennsylvania. Eric E. Anderson, Anthony M. Grippa, Thomas Keith Huval and Richard A. Knudson,...

Brown & Brown Subsidiary Acquires Assets of Nies Insurance Agency

Jan 14 2011 // Brown & Brown Inc. subsidiary Fullerton & Co. Inc. has substantially all of the assets of Nies Insurance Agency Inc. With annual revenues of approximately $2.7 million, Nies Insurance Agency has served the...

Business Moves

Jan 10 2011 // Brown & Brown, Ruland & Mattingley Insurance C. Roy Bridges, regional president of Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Brown & Brown Inc. and Lloyd S. Ruland III and Philip M. Ruland, shareholders of Ruland &...

Brown & Brown Taps Penny as Chief Acquisitions Officer

Jan 10 2011 // J. Scott Penny has been named chief acquisitions officer for Florida-based insurance agency brown & Brown Inc. Penny has served as one of the company’s regional presidents since July 2010 and previously served as...

Lydecker, Downs Named Brown & Brown Regional Presidents

Jan 7 2011 // Brown & Brown Inc. reports that Charles H. Charlie Lydecker has been elected regional president responsible for a number of the company’s retail operations in the state of Florida and for certain of its retail...

Brown & Brown Buys Balcos, Mike Howard Insurance in Washington

Jan 5 2011 // J. Scott Penny, regional president of Brown & Brown Inc.; Mark S. Balcos and Scott N. Balcos, principals of Balcos Insurance, Inc.; and Michael P. Howard, principal of M C H, Inc. of Seattle, d/b/a Mike Howard...

Brown & Brown Acquires Ladd’s Agency

Dec 9 2010 // Insurance broker Brown & Brown has acquired the assets of Ladd’s Agency, an Upstate New York-based insurance agency owned by Alliance Financial Corp. Ladd’s, with annual revenue of roughly $1.4 million, has...

Brown & Brown Acquires Ruland & Mattingley Insurance Services Assets

Dec 2 2010 // C. Roy Bridges, regional president of Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Brown & Brown Inc. and Lloyd S. Ruland III and Philip M. Ruland, shareholders of Ruland & Mattingley Insurance Services Inc. of Laguna Hills, Calif.,...

Brown & Brown Acquires Indiana’s Mavum Consulting

Nov 24 2010 // National insurance broker Brown & Brown has acquired the assets of Mavum Consulting, LLC and Mavum Risk Management, LLC of Indianapolis. With annualized revenues of approximately $1.3 million, Mavum Consulting and...

Zimmerman Joins Brown & Brown

Nov 23 2010 // Insurance broker Brown & Brown has named Paul J. Zimmerman as director of acquisitions. Zimmerman is a 40-year industry veteran who most recently worked with Travelers, joins Brown & Brown’s acquisitions team...

Do Certificates of Insurance Matter?

Nov 17 2010 // For many years it has been generally understood by agents, insurers and insureds that Certificates of Insurance are very limited in their purpose. That view may be under assault in Texas. Generally, a Certificate of...

Do Certificates of Insurance Matter?

Nov 14 2010 // For many years it has been generally understood by agents, insurers and insureds that Certificates of Insurance are very limited in their purpose. That view may be under assault. Generally, a Certificate of Insurance is a...

Business Moves

Nov 14 2010 // Union General Insurance Services Union General Insurance Services of Concord, Calif., opened a Southern California branch office to enhance its service and marketing capabilities to retail producers. The operation will be...

Brown & Brown Announces Asset Acquisition of Rogers & Norman

Nov 3 2010 // Brown & Brown Inc. has announced the asset acquisition of Seattle-based Rogers & Norman Inc. Established in 1956, and with annual revenues of approximately $3.2 million, Rogers & Norman offers insurance...