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Brown & Brown Announces Asset Acquisition Of Calif.-based MFC&V Ins Services

Nov 14 2002 // Kenneth D. Kirk, regional executive vice president of Brown & Brown Inc.; Robert Montgomery, CEO, and Susan Rodriguez, president of MFC&V Insurance Services Inc., with offices in Santa Barbara, Lompoc and...

Brown & Brown Completes Asset Acquisition of Cal-Surance Associates

Nov 13 2002 // Brown & Brown Inc. and Chartered Financial Services Corporation, the holding company for Cal-Surance Associates Inc., United Network of Insurance Services Inc., Sterling Reinsurance Intermediaries Inc., and Lancer...

S&P MidCap 400 To Add Brown & Brown

Nov 6 2002 // Standard & Poor’s announced that Florida’s Brown & Brown Inc. will replace Golden State Bancorp in the S&P MidCap 400 Index after the close of trading on a date to be announced. S&P 500...

Brown & Brown Increases Quarterly Dividend

Oct 24 2002 // Florida’s Brown & Brown Inc. announced its Board of Directors has increased the regular quarterly cash dividend rate to $.0575 per share. This is a 21 percent increase over the current rate of $.0475 per share....

Brown & Brown Inc. Announces Calif. Asset Acquisition

Oct 24 2002 // Brown & Brown Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of four companies with combined revenue of about $27 million, in a deal expected to add to earnings and cash flow per share. In a press release,...

Brown & Brown Acquires C. Douglas Wilson Co.

Oct 21 2002 // Florida’s Brown & Brown Inc. and C. Douglas Wilson Company Inc. announced Brown & Brown’s asset acquisition of C. Douglas Wilson Company, Life & Health Consultants Inc., and Burnett-Bates Agency...

Brown & Brown Sees Record Earnings

Oct 11 2002 // Florida-based insurance holding company Brown & Brown Inc. announced a record 50.6 percent increase in quarterly earnings for the third quarter of 2002 over the third quarter of 2001. The company posted earnings of...

Brown & Brown Takes Over Assets of Technical Risks

Oct 3 2002 // Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc. announced it has acquired the assets of Technical Risks,LP, of Houston, Texas. The transaction was effective October 1, 2002. Technical Risks, with annualized revenues of approximately...

Brown & Brown Acquires John Manner Agency

Sep 9 2002 // Florida-based insurance holding company Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired the John Manner Insurance Agency Inc., of Joliet, Ill. Brown & Brown said the John Manner Insurance Agency, with annualized revenues of...

Brown & Brown Endorses Applied Systems as Preferred Technology Provider

Aug 6 2002 // Florida-based insurance broker Brown & Brown Inc. has endorsed Applied Systems Inc. as its preferred technology provider. According to Applied’s corporate and international division vice president Rick Morgan,...

Brown & Brown Declares Cash Dividend

Jul 26 2002 // Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc. announced its board of directors has approved a re regular quarterly cash dividend of $.0475 per share. The dividend is payable on Aug. 21 to shareholders of record on Aug. 7, 2002.

Applied Systems Endorsed by Brown & Brown

Jul 25 2002 // Applied Systems Inc. has forged an agreement with insurance broker Brown & Brown Inc. under which Applied will provide Brown & Brown with technology solutions for the company and its more than 2,000 retail...

Brown & Brown Makes Asset Acquisition of Cooper, Brown & Currie

Jul 15 2002 // Jim W. Henderson, Executive Vice President of Brown & Brown, Inc. and Frank A. Brown, Jr., President of Cooper, Brown & Currie, Inc., of Rome, Georgia, announced the asset acquisition of Cooper, Brown &...

InsuranceNoodle Offers Lawyer Liability Plan Through Brown and Brown

Apr 26 2002 // Chicago-based InsuranceNoodle, a distributor of small business insurance through independent insurance agencies, has been selected by Brown & Brown Inc. to distribute that company’s Lawyer’s Protector...

Brown Brown Acquires NJ’s Turner Agency

Apr 9 2002 // Regional Executive VP of Brown & Brown, Inc. Thomas E. Riley and Robert J. Turner, President of RJT, Inc. of Parsippany and Freehold, NJ, doing business as The Turner Group, announced that a New Jersey subsidiary of...

Brown and Brown Acquires NY’s Sestito Agency

Jan 4 2002 // The New York subsidiary of national insurance intermediary Brown & Brown announced that it has acquired the business of Virgil N. Sestito, a sole proprietor doing business as Sestito Insurance Agency, of Rome, New...

Brown & Brown Makes Moves in Washington, California

Nov 5 2001 // Brown & Brown Inc. and Raleigh, Schwarz & Powell Inc. as well as Golden Gate Holdings Inc., based respectively in Tacoma, Wash., and Novato, Calif. announced the finalization of their previously announced merger...

Brown and Brown Offers New Cargo Insurance Program

Oct 16 2001 // Broker and insurance services provider Brown & Brown has joined forces with Starlink Logistics, Inc., Electronic Data Systems and a number of cargo insurance underwriters to offer a new program employing advanced...

Brown & Brown in Letter to Buy Raleigh, Schwarz & Powell and Golden State Holdings

Jul 3 2001 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Raleigh, Schwarz & Powell Inc. and Golden State Holdings Inc. to acquire the two related agencies. Located respectively in Tacoma, Wash.,...

Brown Brown Buys Young Agency

May 8 2001 // Florida’s Brown & Brown Inc. acquired Syracuse, N.Y.-based The Young Agency Inc. The transaction, which became effective May 4, creates one of Brown & Brown’s larger operations. Brown & Brown,...