---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-095047"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BRO"
cik: "0000079282"
company_name: "BROWN & BROWN, INC."
filed_at: "2024-08-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T10:14:17.427413+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brown & Brown appoints Stephen P. Hearn to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Stephen P. Hearn, age 58, appointed to Brown & Brown board effective August 9, 2024.
- Hearn most recently served as CEO of Ardonagh Capital Solutions and Inver Re at The Ardonagh Group.
- His initial term expires at the 2025 Annual Meeting; no standing committee yet.
- Hearn also chairs Placing Platform Limited and is a non-executive director at Atrium Underwriters.
- Compensation follows standard non-employee director pay; no material transactions or arrangements.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-095047
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BRO
- cik: 0000079282
- company_name: BROWN & BROWN, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-08-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/79282/000095017024095047/0000950170-24-095047-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/79282/000095017024095047/bro-20240809.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-095047
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-095047.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-095047.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Stephen P. Hearn was appointed as director at BROWN & BROWN, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On August 9, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Brown & Brown, Inc., a Florida corporation (the “Company”), appointed Stephen P. Hearn, age 58, to serve as a director of the Company, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/79282/000095017024095047/0000950170-24-095047-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.