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 and sold under the ECC brand countrywide.
Brown & Brown also announced the promotion of Rob Roth to CEO of ECC in connection with this expansion. Roth will be responsible for the growth and expansion of professional liability products offered nationally through ECC, as well as the consolidation of existing professional liability operations of Peachtree Special Risk Brokers LLC and Hull & Company Inc.
Roth will oversee ECC professional liability operations in Chicago, Los Angeles, Florida, New York and Dallas, and will continue to be based in Oak Brook, Illinois.
Roth began his career with ECC Insurance Brokers, which became a subsidiary of Brown & Brown in 2005. He was subsequently promoted to the position of profit center leader of ECC Insurance Brokers’ Oakbrook, Illinois office, and director and practice leader of professional liability for the firm’s wholesale brokerage division.
Roth said, “I am honored to assume this position and am very excited to be able to draw upon the abundant talent in our organization’s wholesale brokerage division to provide our customers with the best the market has to offer.”
Anthony Strianese, regional president of Brown & Brown Inc., credited Roth’s leadership with ECC’s national growth. “This new structure will enable us to build one team within our wholesale brokerage division with depth and expertise in professional lines and a tireless focus on underwriting and sales competencies,” Strianese said.
Brown & Brown is continuing its acquisition activities this year. In May, Brown & Brown announced that it is buying Beecher Carlson Holdings Inc., an insurance and risk management broker with operations that include retail brokerage, program management and captive management, from Austin Ventures, FSPM and a group of individual employee and non-employee equityholders.
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