NU Online News Service, May 9, 3:29 p.m.EDT

Insurance brokers Brown & Brown and Hub International Ltd.recently announced four acquisitions on the East and Westcoasts.

Daytona Beach, Fla.-based insurance broker Brown & Brownsays it acquired Fitzharris Agency Inc. and Global Intermediariesof Eugene.

Chicago-based broker Hub has acquired Lawson-Hawks InsuranceAgency Inc. and Mark Tauber Insurance Brokerage Inc.

Financial terms of the transactions were not released.

Brown & Brown's New York subsidiary acquired FitzharrisAgency Inc., Fitzharris & Co. Inc. and FitzharrisAdministrators Inc., collectively doing business as FitzharrisInsurance.

Fitzharris Insurance, with aggregate annualized revenues ofapproximately $6.2 million, provides property and casualty,employee benefits and third-party administrative services to schooldistricts, other public entities, and commercial and individualclients on Long Island and throughout New York State.

Fitzharris Insurance's Farmingdale, N.Y., office will become anew standalone profit center of Brown & Brown of New York Inc.,under the leadership of Dennis Fitzharris Jr., president ofFitzharris.

Brown & Brown's subsidiary, Apex Insurance Agency Inc.,acquired Eugene, Ore.-based Global Intermediaries of Eugene,L.L.C.

With annualized revenues of approximately $1.3 million, GlobalIntermediaries is a wholesale operation that provides excessliability, workers' compensation, medical malpractice, policeprofessional and other specialty insurance lines to self-insuredpublic entities.

Judd Feldman, president of Global Intermediaries, and his teamof insurance professionals will continue to serve their clients andcustomers from their existing Eugene location under the ApexInsurance Services name.

Hub acquired Mountain View, Calif.-based insurance brokerLawson-Hawks Insurance Agency Inc.

Founded in 1937, LHI is a full-service agency offering a broadspectrum of P&C, employee benefits and personal-lines insuranceprograms to businesses and individuals throughout California andthe Western United States. The firm serves clients with specificniche expertise in medical malpractice, lawyers' professionalliability, environmental insurance, coverage for home builders, andaffinity and program business of several national associations.

John Miller, CEO of LHI, and his team will become part of theCalifornia operations of Hub. They will remain in their existingoffices in Mountain View, Carmel, Folsom, Monterey and Truckee,Calif.

Hub said it also acquired Mark Tauber Insurance Brokerage Inc.,a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based commercial insurance brokerage firm.

Founded in 1989, Tauber Brokerage handles the P&C programsfor many small to midsize businesses throughout New York City andthe greater New York metropolitan area. The firm serves clients inthe real estate, general construction, and volunteer fire andambulance service industries.

Mark Tauber, president of Tauber Brokerage, and his employeeswill become part of the Hub International Northeast Ltd. inBrooklyn.