BRO Brown and Brown Inc

Brown & Brown, Inc. (NYSE: BRO) is pleased to announce that it will webcast its 2009 Annual Shareholders' Meeting. Investors and all other interested parties are invited to listen to the live audio webcast (which will be listen-only) of the meeting, which will be held on Wednesday, April 29, 2009, at 9:00 a.m. ET. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer J. Hyatt Brown will host the meeting. The webcast will feature comments by Mr. Brown, Jim W. Henderson, Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer; J. Powell Brown, President; and Cory T. Walker, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; as well as a question-and-answer session with shareholders attending the meeting in Daytona Beach, Florida. To access the webcast, go to the Brown & Brown web site at www.bbinsurance.com, and click on "Investor Relations," and then click on "Conference Calls." The webcast will be archived on the Company's website for 30 days after the meeting.

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, quasi-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.

Cory T. Walker Chief Financial Officer (386) 239-7250