Brown & Brown, Inc. Announces the Asset Acquisition of Canfield and Associates, Inc. and Canfield Insurance Services, Inc.

Business Editors

DAYTONA BEACH & TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 4, 2003

Jim W. Henderson, President and Chief Operating Officer of Brown & Brown, Inc. (NYSE:BRO), and David A. Canfield, President of Canfield and Associates, Inc. and Canfield Insurance Services, Inc., of Ephrata, Washington, today announced the asset acquisition of Canfield and Associates, Inc. and Canfield Insurance Services, Inc. by Program Management Services, Inc. (PMSI), a subsidiary of Brown & Brown, Inc. The transaction is effective September 1, 2003.

Canfield and Associates, Inc. and Canfield Insurance Services, Inc., with annualized revenues of approximately $4.4 million, provide third party administration, risk management consulting and related services to governmental and quasi-governmental bodies throughout the state of Washington. This transaction represents the initial expansion of Brown & Brown's PMSI subsidiary, a leader in serving the insurance needs of the governmental sector countrywide, into the Northwestern United States. Dave Canfield, acting as Profit Center Manager, and his staff, will continue to operate at their current location as a stand-alone operation of PMSI.

Shane Caldwell, President of PMSI, said, "The Canfield operations represent an important addition in our strategic plan of further expanding our leadership in providing products and services to the governmental sector. We are very pleased to have Dave and his team of quality insurance professionals join our family of public entity insurance specialists."

Brown & Brown, Inc. and its subsidiaries offer a broad range of insurance and reinsurance products and services, as well as risk management, employee benefit administration, and managed health care programs. Providing service to business, public entity, individual and trade and association clients nation-wide, the Company is ranked by Business Insurance magazine as the United States' sixth largest independent insurance intermediary. Our Web address is http://www.bbinsurance.com.

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