---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-069437"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BRO"
cik: "0000079282"
company_name: "BROWN & BROWN, INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T00:57:37.872977+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brown & Brown appoints Paul Gallagher as principal accounting officer; shareholders approve stock plan amendment

## Summary
- Paul M. Gallagher appointed principal accounting officer, effective May 7, 2025; he is VP, Controller & CAO.
- R. Andrew Watts continues as EVP, CFO and Treasurer but no longer serves as principal accounting officer.
- Shareholders approved a 6,930,000-share increase to the 2019 Stock Incentive Plan and extended its term to May 7, 2035.
- All 13 director nominees were elected; auditor Deloitte & Touche LLP ratified; say-on-pay passed on advisory basis.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-069437
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BRO
- cik: 0000079282
- company_name: BROWN & BROWN, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/79282/000095017025069437/0000950170-25-069437-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/79282/000095017025069437/bro-20250507.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-069437
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-069437.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-069437.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  R. Andrew Watts changed role as Principal Accounting Officer at BROWN & BROWN, INC..
  - Action: no longer serves as principal accounting officer
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: In connection with the foregoing, effective on May 7, 2025, R. Andrew Watts, the Company’s current principal accounting officer, no longer serves as the Company’s principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/79282/000095017025069437/0000950170-25-069437-index.htm
- Executive change
  Paul M. Gallagher was appointed as Principal Accounting Officer at BROWN & BROWN, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: On May 7, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Brown & Brown, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Paul M. Gallagher as the Company’s principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/79282/000095017025069437/0000950170-25-069437-index.htm

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