Brokers Insurance broker Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Company has agreed to buy substantially all of the assets of Thilman & Filippini, L.L.C., a Chicagobased insurance agency and brokerage firm.

With 2005 gross revenues of approximately $24 million, Thilman Filippini provides property and casualty and employee benefits insurance products and services.

The Thilman Filippini team of more than 130 professionals will continue to serve clients from its downtown Chicago office under the leadership of its existing partners, E. Thomas Thilman, Thomas W. Filippini, John M. Atkinson, Peter J. Kunz and Eric M. Mezmar and the existing management.