Latest Brown & Brown Headlines

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Brown & Brown Buys Texas Agency

Jan 29 2003 // Brown & Brown Inc. of Daytona Beach and Tampa, Fla. acquired San Antonio, Texas-based Coleman Company Insurance Services L.P. in a transaction effective Jan. 1, 2003. In a joint announcement, the companies described...

Brown & Brown Announces Dividend

Jan 23 2003 // Florida’s Brown & Brown Inc. said its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $.0575 per share. The dividend is payable on February 19, 2003, to shareholders of record on February 5,...

Brown & Brown Sub Acquires Florida Intracoastal Underwriters

Jan 20 2003 // Madoline Corporation, a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc. announced it has acquired the remaining 25 percent interest in Florida Intracoastal Underwriters, Limited Company (FIU), held by Trenwick America Reinsurance...

Brown & Brown: 10 Years of Record Earnings

Jan 17 2003 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced record earnings for 2002, making it the 10th consecutive record year for the Florida-based company. Net income rose to $83,122,000, or $1.22 per share, an increase of 54.2 percent over the...

Brown & Brown Names New Executive VP

Jan 15 2003 // Brown & Brown Inc. appointed Stephen S. van Wert, Esq. executive vice president responsible for all program insurance operations at the company’s Tampa headquarters. These programs include the Brown &...

Brown & Brown Completes Acquisition of MFC&V Ins Services

Jan 6 2003 // Brown & Brown Inc. and MFC&V Insurance Services, with offices in Santa Barbara, Lompoc and Camarillo, Calif., announced the finalization of their previously announced acquisition transaction, providing for Brown...

Florida’s Brown & Brown Acquires Oklahoma Agency

Dec 24 2002 // C. Roy Bridges, regional executive vice president of Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc. , and W. Brent LaGere, chairman and CEO of LaGere & Walkingstick Insurance Agency Inc., of Chandler, Okla., announced that...

Brown & Brown Makes Management Changes

Nov 15 2002 // Florida’s Brown & Brown Inc. announced that its Board of Directors elected Jim W. Henderson as president and COO of the company. At the same time, Linda S. Downs, regional executive vice president, was tapped to...

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...