All the headlines from our Higginbotham Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 6 2015 // Texas-based Higginbotham has hired Sean Bell as an associate of commercial property/casualty insurance for its practice in Austin.Bell has experience in brokerage with an independent agency and in claims with an insurance...
Apr 20 2015 // The independent insurance agency system is getting older. So much so that the average age of a U.S. insurance agent today is 59 years old, according to some estimates. And as more than a quarter of the entire insurance...
Apr 8 2015 // A group of five commercial property/casualty insurance professionals led by broker Mark Conner has joined Higginbotham in Houston. The group specializes in homeowners association (HOA) insurance and loss control, serving...
Mar 23 2015 // Integro, Design Insurance AgencyInsurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro has acquired Design Insurance Agency Inc., a specialist brokerage providing professional liability coverage and risk management services...
Mar 11 2015 // Fort Worth, Texas-based Higginbotham has hired Claire Florsheim, JD, RD, LD, as health risk management and wellness consultant.Florsheim joins the firm’s Fort Worth office in its employee benefits department, which...
Mar 4 2015 // Fort Worth, Texas-based Higginbotham and Aycock & Fowler, in Lubbock, Texas, have merged.Both are independent insurance firms providing property and liability insurance, risk management and employee benefit services to...
Feb 26 2015 // Independent insurance firm, Higginbotham, announced has united its three Houston offices under one roof and one operating name.Chapman Schewe Benefits Consulting, Madison Benefits Group and Swantner & Gordon are...
Feb 22 2015 // Allred-Thompson-Mason-Daugherty Insurance (ATMD) agency Wichita Falls, Texas, is now doing business under the name of Higginbotham. The name change was effective Jan. 1.ATMD has been in operation since 1988. Jay Awtrey,...
Jan 12 2015 // Higginbotham has hired Steven Stick as senior loss control consultant in the independent insurance, risk management and financial services firm’s Dallas office.Higginbotham’s control department serves customers...
Oct 6 2014 // The Best in Texas. That is both the goal and the operational philosophy of this year’s winner of Insurance Journal’s Best Agency to Work For: South Central.Fort Worth-based Higginbotham is not only beloved by...
Sep 22 2014 // Stuart Parker, currently chief operating officer at San Antonio-based USAA, has been named to succeed current CEO Joe Robles when he retires at the end of February 2015.USAA Capital Corporation President Carl Liebert has...
Aug 29 2014 // Commercial insurance brokers Aaron Endris and Bryan Parker joined the Swantner & Gordon branch office of Higginbotham in Corpus Christi, Texas.Endris joins as manager of the bond department and Parker as associate of...
Jul 21 2014 // Integro, Daugherty Insurance Services, Lugo & AssociatesInsurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro has acquired Stockton, Calif.-based Daugherty Insurance Services, a retail broker. Details of the deal were...
Jul 3 2014 // Higginbotham has purchased a portion of Willis of Texas Inc.’s operations. The transaction includes Willis of Texas’ operations in San Antonio, McAllen, Victoria and Tyler. Combined, they add 35 employees and...
May 22 2014 // Commercial property/casualty insurance brokers Arthur Haas and Jeffrey King joined the Swantner & Gordon branch office of Higginbotham in Corpus Christi, Texas.Haas will serve the general business sector while King...
Mar 14 2014 // Independent insurance brokers Higginbotham, based in Fort Worth, and Edgmon Insurance Agency, headquartered in Odessa, Texas, have merged their operations.Edgmon Insurance is a family-owned agency going on its third...
Mar 5 2014 // Higginbotham hired Robert C. White Jr. as a producer to expand the life insurance department at the insurance firm’s Fort Worth, Texas, office.White is former owner of a locally based long term care insurance...
Jan 17 2014 // Higginbotham, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, and Talon Insurance Agency announced the merger of their operations. Both are independent insurance firms based in Texas providing commercial and personal insurance, risk...
Dec 18 2013 // Alan W. Ponder has joined the Houston office of insurance brokerage and financial services firm, Higginbotham, as assistant vice president of loss control.Ponder will apply his three-decade career in loss prevention to...
Dec 16 2013 // In addition to giving back with volunteerism, one of the key financial goals of employee-owned IMA is to contribute a portion of the company’s profits annually to the IMA Foundation.The IMA Foundation historically...