Brown & Brown, Inc.

Good morning and welcome to the Brown and Brown, Inc. second quarter earnings call. Today's call is being recorded. Please note that certain information discussed during this call, including information contained in the slide presentation posted in connection with this call and including answers given in response to your questions, may relate to future results and events or otherwise be forward-looking in nature. Such statements reflect our current views with respect to future events, including those relating to the company's anticipated financial results for the second quarter and are intended to fall within the safe harbor provisions of the securities laws. Actual results or events in the future are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties and may differ materially from those currently anticipated or desired or referenced in any forward-looking statements made as a result of a number of factors. Such factors include the company's determination as it finalizes its financial results for the second quarter, that its financial results differ from the current preliminary unaudited numbers set forth in the currently identified or quantified and those risks and uncertainties identified from time to time in the company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Additional discussion of these and other factors affecting the company's business and prospects as well as additional information regarding forward-looking statements is contained in the slide presentation posted in connection with this call and in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We disclaim any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. In addition, there are certain non-GAAP financial measures used in this conference call, a reconciliation of any non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP financial measure can be found in the company's earnings press release or in the investor presentation for this call on the company's website at .bbrown.com by clicking on investor relations and then calendar of events. With that I will now turn the call over to Powell Brown, president and chief executive officer. You may begin.

Thanks, Dee Dee. Good morning everyone and welcome to our second quarter earnings call. Before we get into the results for the quarter, we wanted to provide an update on the acquisition of RSC Topco or as we refer to it, a session. Post the announcement, John, Meena, myself, and a number of other senior leaders met with many of the teammates from a session and the feedback has been positive. We're very excited about our expanded capabilities and how we can leverage them for the benefit of our customers.

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