Brown & Brown Insurance 2016 Annual Report

Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements
The Company is subject to taxation in the United States and various state jurisdictions. The Company is also subject to
taxation in the United Kingdom. In the United States, federal returns for fiscal years 2013 through 2016 remain open and
subject to examination by the IRS. The Company files and remits state income taxes in various states where the Company
has determined it is required to file state income taxes. The Company’s filings with those states remain open for audit for the
fiscal years 2011 through 2016. In the United Kingdom, the Company’s filings remain open for audit for the fiscal years 2015
and 2016.
The federal income tax returns of The Wright Insurance Group are currently under IRS audit for the short period ended
May 1, 2014. Also during 2016, the Company settled the previously disclosed State of Kansas audit for fiscal years 2012
through 2014 in the amount of $204,695. The Company and one of its subsidiaries, The Advocator Group, LLC, is currently
under examination by the State of Massachusetts for the fiscal year 2013 through 2014. There are no other federal or state
income tax audits as of December 31, 2016.
In general, it is our practice and intention to reinvest the earnings of our non-U.S. subsidiaries in those operations.
As of December 31, 2016, we have not made a provision for U.S. or additional foreign withholding taxes on approximately
$2.6 million of the excess of the amount for financial reporting over the tax basis of investments in foreign subsidiaries that
is indefinitely reinvested. Generally, such amounts become subject to U.S. taxation upon the remittance of dividends and
under certain other circumstances. It is not practicable to estimate the amount of deferred tax liability related to investments
in these foreign subsidiaries.
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NOTE 10 Employee Savings Plan
The Company has an Employee Savings Plan (401(k)) in which substantially all employees with more than 30 days of
service are eligible to participate. Under this plan, Brown & Brown makes matching contributions of up to 4.0% of each
participant’s annual compensation. Prior to 2014, the Company’s matching contribution was up to 2.5% of each participant’s
annual compensation with a discretionary profit-sharing contribution each year, which equaled 1.5% of each eligible
employee’s compensation. The Company’s contributions to the plan totaled $19.3 million in 2016, $17.8 million in 2015,
and $15.8 million in 2014.
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NOTE 11 Stock-Based Compensation
Performance Stock Plan
In 1996, Brown & Brown adopted and the shareholders approved a performance stock plan, under which until the suspension
of the plan in 2010, up to 14,400,000 Performance Stock Plan (“PSP”) shares could be granted to key employees
contingent on the employees’ future years of service with Brown & Brown and other performance-based criteria established
by the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors. Before participants may take full title to Performance
Stock, two vesting conditions must be met. Of the grants currently outstanding, specified portions satisfied the first condition
for vesting based upon 20% incremental increases in the 20-trading-day average stock price of Brown & Brown’s common
stock from the price on the business day prior to date of grant. Performance Stock that has satisfied the first vesting condition
is considered “awarded shares.” Awarded shares are included as issued and outstanding common stock shares and are
included in the calculation of basic and diluted EPS. Dividends are paid on awarded shares and participants may exercise
voting privileges on such shares. Awarded shares satisfy the second condition for vesting on the earlier of a participant’s:
(i) 15 years of continuous employment with Brown & Brown from the date shares are granted to the participants (or, in the
case of the July 2009 grant to Powell Brown, 20 years); (ii) attainment of age 64 (on a prorated basis corresponding to the
number of years since the date of grant); or (iii) death or disability. On April 28, 2010, the PSP was suspended and any
remaining authorized, but unissued shares, as well as any shares forfeited in the future, will be reserved for issuance under
the 2010 Stock Incentive Plan (the “SIP”).
At December 31, 2016, 5,174,190 shares had been granted under the PSP. As of December 31, 2016, 1,003,275 shares
had met the first condition of vesting and had been awarded, and 4,170,915 shares had satisfied both conditions of vesting
and had been distributed to participants. Of the shares that have not vested as of December 31, 2016, the initial stock prices
ranged from $13.65 to $25.68.