Latest Brown & Brown Headlines
All the headlines from our Brown & Brown Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Business Moves
Nov 1 2010 // Ironshore, Distinguished Programs Bermuda-based specialty insurer Ironshore Inc. and New York-based program administrator Distinguished Programs Group LLC have formed a joint venture acquisition vehicle targeting the...
Brown & Brown Buys Some Business from Pennsylvania’s Greystone
Oct 25 2010 // Insurance broker Brown & Brown has acquired part of the business of Berwyn, Pa.-based Greystone Benefits, Inc. The company said that the acquired book of business, with annual revenues of approximately $1.2 million,...
Brown & Brown of Florida Buys Beecher Carlson’s T.R. Jones Units
Oct 8 2010 // Brown & Brown of Florida has acquired insurance broker Beecher Carlson subsidiaries, Thomas R. Jones, Inc. and T.R. Jones & Co. of Broward, L.C., collectively doing business as T.R. Jones & Co. T.R. Jones &...
Brown & Brown Acquires Martin Benefits
Oct 6 2010 // Insurance broker Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired New York-based Martin Benefits Consulting and Martin Human Resources. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The businesses — which have combined annual revenues of...
Roth to Lead Brown & Brown’s Professional Liability Brokerage
Sep 21 2010 // Brown & Brown, Inc. announced that Rob Roth has been named director and practice leader of Professional Liability for the company’s wholesale brokerage division. Roth began his career with ECC Insurance Brokers,...
Synergy Benefits Acquired by Brown & Brown
Aug 9 2010 // Florida-based Brown & Brown has acquired Virginia-based benefits firm Synergy Benefits Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Synergy, which has annual revenue of approximately $1.2 million, will merge with Manassas office of...
Conn. AG Barred from Releasing Agents’ Commission Data
Aug 3 2010 // The Connecticut Supreme Court said state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal cannot publicize confidential business documents obtained under subpoena in an antitrust probe, prompting him to say he might try to have the...
Penny Named Regional President at Brown & Brown
Jul 22 2010 // Brown & Brown Inc. has promoted J. Scott Penny to the position of regional president. Penny, who has served as a regional executive vice president since 2002, is responsible for oversight of retail profit center...
Brown & Brown Q2 Profit Up 1.3%
Jul 20 2010 // Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown Inc. reported that it earned net income for the 2010 second quarter $41,185,000, an increase of 1.3% from the $40,668,000, for the 2009 second quarter. Total revenue for the...
Business Moves
Jul 19 2010 // NetComp NetComp Insurance, a newly-formed program manager based in Columbia, S.C., has opened its online program (www.netcompinsurance.com) for small to-mid size workers’ compensation business to all independent...
Brown & Brown Acquires Meridian Group of New York
Jul 6 2010 // Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown has acquired Meridian Group of New York, Inc. Meridian Group, with annual revenues of approximately $1.3 million, provides life, health, and other employee benefits products...
Brown & Brown Acquires Eberhart & Co. of Georgia
Jul 6 2010 // Florida-based agency Brown & Brown has acquired Eberhart & Company Insurors, Inc.of Roswell, Georgia. With revenues of approximately $1 million, Eberhart has served the insurance needs of individuals and businesses...
Brown & Brown Acquires South Carolina’s Commonwealth Insurance
Jul 2 2010 // Insurance agency Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired Commonwealth Insurance Inc., of Charleston, South Carolina. Founded in 1996 by Todd R. Tyler, Commonwealth Insurance Group, with annual revenues of approximately $2.6...
Business Moves
Jun 7 2010 // Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group has announced that its subsidiary, Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. (LMAC) has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an...
Brown & Brown Acquires Four Connecticut Insurance Agencies
May 14 2010 // Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired four retail insurance agencies in central and southeastern Connecticut with combined revenues of $7.2 million. The acquired agencies are McCutcheon Burr & Sons, of...
The Rollercoaster of M&A
Apr 19 2010 // Continued Soft Market, Taxes and Health Care Reform to Boost Activity in Second Half of 2010 January deal activity started out strong but continued to decline in February and further in March. Nonetheless, first quarter...
Brown & Brown Elects Bridges Western Regional President
Apr 6 2010 // The Board of Directors of Brown & Brown Inc. has elected C. Roy Bridges regional president responsible for most of the company’s retail operations in the western United States. He will continue to have regional...
Riley Promoted to Acquisitions Chief at Brown & Brown
Mar 25 2010 // Thomas E. Riley has been promoted to chief acquisitions officer for Brown & Brown Inc. and will assume responsibility for mergers and acquisitions activity of the company and its subsidiaries, and for the supervision...
Business Moves
Mar 22 2010 // Brown & Brown, DiMartino J. Scott Penny, regional executive vice president of Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc., and Gregory P. DiMartino, president of DiMartino Associates Inc. of Seattle, announced the...
Brown & Brown Acquires Two New Jersey Underwriting Units
Mar 19 2010 // Brown & Brown Inc. will acquire New Jersey-based Excel Underwriters Alliance Inc. and Spirit Underwriters Inc., the Florid-based brokerage announced. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Excel and Spirit offer...
