DAYTONA BEACH and TAMPA, FL, Jul 05, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- Brown & Brown, Inc. (NYSE: BRO) announces that it will release its 2006 second-quarter earnings after market close on Monday, July 24, 2006. On Tuesday, July 25, 2006, J. Hyatt Brown, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jim W. Henderson, President and Chief Operating Officer, and Cory T. Walker, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Brown & Brown, will host an investor update conference call concerning Brown & Brown's second quarter 2006 financial results. You are invited to listen to the call, which will be broadcast live on Brown & Brown's Internet site at 8:30 a.m. ET. Simply log on to www.bbinsurance.com and click on Investor Relations and then Calendar of Events.
If you are unable to listen during the live web cast, audio from the conference call will be available commencing two hours after the end of the live broadcast until midnight (ET), July 29, 2006, by dialing 1-888-203-1112, replay access code 7044790. Audio will also be archived on Brown & Brown's website, www.bbinsurance.com, for 14 days after the live broadcast. To access the website replay, go to Investor Relations and click on Calendar of Events. Minimum Requirements to listen to broadcast are the Windows Media Player software and at least a 28.8 kbps connection to the Internet.
Brown & Brown, Inc. and its subsidiaries offer a broad range of insurance and reinsurance products and services, as well as risk management, third party administration, managed health care, and Medicare set-aside services and programs. Providing service to business, public entity, individual, trade and professional association clients nationwide, the Company is ranked by Business Insurance magazine as the United States' seventh largest independent insurance intermediary. The Company's Web address is www.bbinsurance.com.
Statements made during this conference call, as well as responses to questions asked during the question and answer portion, may contain certain statements relating to future results which are forward-looking statements. These statements are not historical facts, but instead represent only the Company's belief regarding future events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of the Company's control. It is possible that the Company's actual results and financial condition may differ, possibly materially, from the anticipated results and financial condition indicated in these forward-looking statements. Further information concerning the Company and its business, including factors that potentially could materially affect the Company's financial results, are contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Some factors include: general economic conditions around the country; downward commercial property and casualty premium pressures; the competitive environment; the integration of the Company's operations with those of businesses or assets the Company has acquired or may acquire in the future and the failure to realize the expected benefits of such integration; and the potential occurrence of a disaster that affects certain areas of the States of California, Florida, New Jersey, New York and/or Washington, where significant portions of the Company's business are concentrated. All forward-looking statements included in this conference call are made only as of the date of this call, and we do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or correct any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that subsequently occur or of which we thereafter become aware.
Cory T. Walker Chief Financial Officer (386) 239-7250
SOURCE: Brown & Brown, Inc.