DAYTONA BEACH, FL and TAMPA, FL, Oct 25, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- Brown & Brown, Inc. (NYSE: BRO), announces the election, by unanimous vote of the Board of Directors, of Robert W. Lloyd as Vice President and Chief Litigation Officer of the Company.
Mr. Lloyd came to Brown & Brown in 1999 and has served as Assistant General Counsel since January 2002. In September of that year he assumed responsibility for leading Litigation and Risk Management. Prior to that he was Vice President and Sales Manager and earlier Vice President of Marketing for the company's Daytona Beach retail office. Before joining Brown & Brown, he was an attorney with the Daytona Beach law firm of Cobb, Cole & Bell for more than seven years.
Mr. Lloyd is a Daytona Beach native who earned both his BA and Juris Doctor Degrees from the University of Florida, and has been named to the University of Florida Hall of Fame. He has actively served his community in a number of civic organizations including the Volusia County Charter Review Commission, Futures, Inc., Crime Stoppers of Volusia County, Inc., the Bethune-Cookman College Board of Counselors and Phoenix House of Florida.
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' sixth largest independent insurance intermediary. The Company's Web address is www.bbinsurance.com.
Contact: Jim W. Henderson President & Chief Operating Officer (386) 239-5789
SOURCE: Brown & Brown, Inc.