Brown & Brown Dealer Services (BBDS) has expanded its dealership-focused insurance operations with the acquisition of American Adventure Insurance, a provider of point-of-sale cover and F&I products to vehicle dealers across the United States.
The deal brings American Adventure’s network of more than 1,500 dealerships under the BBDS platform. The business, owned by Paul Bender through The Protectorate Group Insurance Agency, Inc., will continue to operate nationwide. Bender and his team will report to Mike Neal, president of BBDS.
Founded on a dealer-centric model developed by Bender in the early 1990s, American Adventure specialises in arranging insurance solutions directly at dealerships. Its offerings span motor homes, travel trailers, campers, boats, personal watercraft and motorcycles, as well as F&I products for automotive dealers and commercial insurance solutions.
“I’ve been building this dealer-centric model since 1992, American Adventure is what that original DNA looks like today - move quickly, take care of dealers and their customers. Our network of more than 1,500 dealerships, combined with Brown & Brown’s depth of products and expertise, gives our people and partners a platform built to help us scale without losing our edge, and I couldn’t be more excited to build the next chapter with Mike and the BBDS team,” Bender said.
Mike Neal said the addition of American Adventure would broaden BBDS’s service capabilities for dealers nationwide.
“Paul is a recognized authority in enabling his dealer partners by providing best-in-class insurance products for their shared customers. The American Adventure team will expand and enhance BBDS's capabilities and provide us with additional innovative solutions for our dealers across the country. We look forward to Paul and the team joining Brown & Brown,” Neal said.
The American Adventure acquisition is part of an active period of mergers and acquisitions for Brown & Brown. In 2025, the company completed the purchase of Accession Risk Management Group - a deal valued at nearly $9.83 billion that brought a large specialty brokerage network into its operations - and has acquired other agencies and specialty businesses during the year.
