Brown & Brown Insurance Reviews

Pros

Brown & Brown Insurance offers unlimited opportunities for education and advancements. The sky is the limit. Awesome Benefits with the ESPP and 401K.

Cons

high out of pocket deductible on health insurance

Pros

Great company to learn insurance. I had the pleasure of working with seasoned professionals who were willing to teach.

Cons

B&B cares too much about numbers and keeping the company profitable than their own employees. When quota is not met, employees are terminated. Location where I worked, inexperienced people were hired just to pay minimum salary and left to fend for themselves. The assistants hired are no help to Account Managers. Supervisor just supervises and doesn't help team with large number of accounts. Most people are... barely making it. No raises are given only "holiday bonuses". No room for growth.

Advice to Management

Have the Supervisors manage accounts not just oversee PTO and make sure employees work. Hire experienced professionals.

Pros

Meritocracy. If you are in the "cool club", you are in.

Cons

Razor thin margins equals less support and career development

Pros

Ummmm... 🤔... It's close to many L. I. highways

Cons

The dept caters to an "old school" boys club" conservative environment. Management wants staff to work in a boring, super quiet, and mondane atmosphere with only a handful of staff in each dept. The senior staff/employees are used as pawns to watch over new employees and allowed to passively aggressively intimidate newer and younger examiners. Management does not share information about the departments... processes and developments and often withold information either from lack of knowledge or for the purpose of maintaining secrets amongst staff. Management doesn't take examiners suggestions into consideration about implementing new/helpful procedures for a more productive workflow. The set up of claims and computer systems are antiquated. Work life balance is frowned upon. The vendors that are assigned to handle claims are either related or have a deep personal relationship with management which poses a conflict of interest. Management often shows favoritism for staff in same race, gender and socio economical class.

Advice to Management

Diversity training Encourage more open dialogue between management and staff Consider remote access and /flex time Obtain newer technology and assessibility to IT

Pros

There weren’t any weekends worked.

Cons

Not adept at teaching Micromanagement No patience Superiority complex Threatened by attractive female employees

Advice to Management

When you have a training program then the trainer should actually do just that and train.

Pros

B&B as a whole is a great company. Employee stock purchase is a plus.

Cons

PTO time is not the best and must be accrued. Work life balance can be difficult to manage. Overwhelming workload for service staff, much needed system upgrades. This location needs reform and restructure in every aspect of the commercial department.

Pros

There are some people who have been there for 20+ years

Cons

Negativity is so widespread. Most people and are just trying to make it through the day.

Advice to Management

Treat your employees how you would want to be treated and put yourself in their shoes regarding workload work life balance. And get rid of the bully management culture. Negativity is wide spread and hard to avoid even if you keep your head down. Treating some people very well but the majority as if they are expendable is extremely short sighted. The turnover will continue to be high until these issues are... addressed.

Pros

Caring management, opportunities for earning and promotion, great 401k match and stock purchase plan, work life balance

Cons

High expectations to work hard for advancement

Advice to Management

Keep expanding communication and resources