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Texas Agencies, Higginbotham, Jeannette Blanton Insurance Merge

Jun 30 2017 // Fort Worth, Texas-based Higginbotham has partnered with the Jeannette Blanton Insurance Agency Inc., a branch office of Dallas-based Independent Insurance Group Inc.Jeannette Blanton Insurance is located in Ennis, Texas....

Higginbotham, Painter & Johnson Financial Merge Operations

Jun 27 2017 // Fort Worth-based independent insurance broker, Higginbotham, and Painter & Johnson Financial have merged their insurance operations in Central Texas.Painter & Johnson Financial is a broker of insurance, securities...

Higginbotham Adds 2 Insurance Brokers in McAllen, Texas Office

Jun 9 2017 // Higginbotham has hired insurance brokers John Garcia and Jordan Lewis in its McAllen, Texas, office.Garcia was added as an associate of employee benefits and Lewis as an associate of business insurance. They join the...

Business Moves

Jun 5 2017 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage, has acquired Rossmann-Hurt-Hoffman Inc. (RHH). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.Based in Ellicott City, Md., RHH is a multi-lines insurance...

Higginbotham Adds Schielack as VP in Houston

Jun 2 2017 // Texas-based insurance, risk management and employee benefits agency, Higginbotham, has hired commercial property and casualty insurance broker Kyle J. Schielack as vice president in Houston.He brings eight years’...

Higginbotham Acquires Part of Hilb Group of Texas

May 12 2017 // Fort Worth, Texas-based insurance agency, Higginbotham, has purchased a portion of the Hilb Group of Texas LLC’s operations in San Antonio.The transaction adds eight insurance and customer service professionals with...

Higginbotham Expands with Insurance Associates of the Southwest Merger

Dec 20 2016 // Fort Worth-based independent insurance broker, Higginbotham, and Insurance Associates of the Southwest (IAS) have merged their operations in Houston.IAS is an independent broker with 38 commercial, personal, life, health...

The Charity Issue: Snapshots of Giving

Dec 19 2016 // During their annual convention in March, more than 50 members of NetVU (the Network of Vertafore Users) devoted a day to serving at the San Antonio Food Bank. Volunteers sorted 12,000 pounds of food, enough for 10,000...

Business Moves

Oct 3 2016 // Evergreen, SheridanEvergreen Insurance & Risk Management, a Monsey, New York, based insurance brokerage for investment real estate, has acquired the assets of Sheridan & Co. Group LLC and T.J. Sheridan &...

Group Health Insurance Specialist Burgess Joins Higginbotham in Corpus Christi

Sep 14 2016 // Fort Worth-based insurance and financial services firm Higginbotham has hired employee benefit plan broker Robbi McAuliffe Burgess as an associate in Corpus Christi.Burgess joins the firm’s 12 local employee health...

Davis Insurance Agency Merges with Fort Worth-Based Higginbotham

Sep 8 2016 // Fort Worth, Texas-based Higginbotham and Davis Insurance Agency, headquartered in Lufkin, have merged.Davis Insurance is an independent broker with a workforce of 26 in its Lufkin home office and Amarillo branch. The union...

Dill Joins Higginbotham as Commercial Broker in Houston

Aug 30 2016 // Insurance and financial services firm, Higginbotham, has hired commercial property/casualty insurance broker Ryan B. Dill as associate at its Houston practice.Dill joins Higginbotham’s 110 local insurance, risk...

Business Moves

May 2 2016 // Alliant, Andre-RombergAlliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Spokane, Wash.-based Andre-Romberg Insurance Agency. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Andre-Romberg will operate as part of Alliant Americas. Kurtz,...

Higginbotham, Capps Insurance Agency Merge

Mar 25 2016 // Independent insurance broker Higginbotham, headquartered in Fort Worth, and Mount Pleasant, Texas-based Capps Insurance Agency have joined forces.Higginbotham’s partnership with Capps brings its total number of...

Higginbotham Adds Henyon as Personal Lines Associate

Feb 29 2016 // Texas-based Higginbotham hired Bernie Henyon as associate of personal property/casualty insurance in the insurance firm’s Fort Worth headquarters.Henyon provides home, automobile and liability insurance services to...

Higginbotham Adds Clarke as Loss Control Specialist in Corpus Christi

Jan 13 2016 // Texas based independent insurance firm, Higginbotham, hired Peter Clarke, as senior loss control consultant in its Corpus Christi office.The Corpus Christi loss control department serves customers throughout the state. The...

The Charity Issue

Dec 21 2015 // Gillis, Ellis & Baker Employees of Gillis, Ellis & Baker Insurance (GEB) spent a recent weekend fixing up the exterior of the Gentilly home of Eleonor Sheppard. The GEB team repaired siding, painted the...

Business Moves

Sep 7 2015 // Distinguished, FulcrumDistinguished Programs Holdings LLC announced the pending acquisition of Bellevue, Wash.-based Fulcrum Insurance Programs. The businesses will be combined and rebranded as Distinguished Specialty....

Sakulenzki Joins Texas-Based Higginbotham as Local Benefits Broker

Aug 19 2015 // Texas-based independent insurance firm Higginbotham has hired Jonathan Sakulenzki as an employee benefits producer in McAllen, Texas.Sakulenzki joins the McAllen office’s two commercial property/casualty insurance...

Higginbotham, Commercial Global Insurance Join Forces

Aug 11 2015 // Independent insurance broker Higginbotham, based in Fort Worth, and Commercial Global Insurance (CGI) are merging their operations in Friendswood, Texas.CGI is an independent broker in Deer Park, Texas. CGI will merge its...