Latest Brown & Brown Headlines
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Brown & Brown Promotes Strianese to Regional President
Jan 19 2012 // Insurance agency Brown & Brown Inc. as promoted Anthony Strianese to the position of regional president. Strianese, who has served as one of the company’s regional executive vice presidents since 2007, is...
Business Moves
Jan 9 2012 // Neff Risk, Cochrane Neff Risk and Cochrane and Co. are officially one. The combined company will operate under the name Cochrane and Company and be headquartered in Spokane, Wash. The resulting footprint of the merger will...
Arrowhead in San Diego to be Acquired by Brown & Brown
Dec 16 2011 // The parent company of managing general agent San Diego, Calif.-based Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Brown & Brown Inc. The purchase price is $395 million,...
Business Moves
Nov 21 2011 // Yates Tustin, Calif.-based managing general agent Yates has opened a northern California office in Walnut Creek. Jon Uyeyama has joined the office, bringing with him 10 years of underwriting experience. Uyeyama will...
Brown & Brown of Northern California Acquires Sitzmann Assets
Nov 8 2011 // Brown & Brown of Northern California Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown, Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of Sitzmann, Morris & Lavis Insurance Agency Inc. SML is in the employee benefits,...
Brown & Brown Subsidiary Apex Insurance Acquires Global Intermediaries
May 9 2011 // Apex Insurance Agency Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown, Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of Global Intermediaries of Eugene LLC, d/b/a Global Intermediaries in Eugene, Ore. With annualized revenues...
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Apr 4 2011 // The Obama administration has officially named Illinois state insurance regulator Michael McRaith to head the new Federal Insurance Office. McRaith, currently the head of the Illinois Department of Insurance, will run the...
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...
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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...
