Latest Higginbotham Headlines
All the headlines from our Higginbotham Topic Page, ordered by recency.
White Joins Insurance Firm Higginbotham in Fort Worth
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...
Texas-Based Talon Insurance Agency Merges with Higginbotham
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...
Higginbotham Hires Ponder as AVP, Loss Control, for South Texas
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...
How Agents and Brokers Help Communities Nationwide
Dec 16 2013 // IMA Dallas employees James Dark and Sharon Sanford paint walls at a child care center. IMA Big on Volunteerism In addition to giving back with volunteerism, one of the key financial goals of employee-owned IMA is to...
Safe Harbor Benefits Navigates to Higginbotham
Nov 27 2013 // Independent insurance broker Safe Harbor Benefits, located in Arlington, Texas, has merged with Fort Worth-based Higginbotham, the companies announced. Safe Harbor Benefits was opened in 1996 by Bryan Keathley, a life and...
Swift Joins Higginbotham/Swantner & Gordon as Marketing Manager
Sep 26 2013 // Phil Swift has accepted a position as marketing manager at the Houston office of Swantner & Gordon Insurance Agency, an independent brokerage that merged with Higginbotham in 2010. Swift has 33 years of insurance...
Business Moves
Sep 23 2013 // American Family, Homesite Group Madison, Wis.-based American Family Insurance reached agreement to acquire direct homeowners insurer Homesite Group Inc. for an anticipated $616 million. Homesite Group is a Boston-based...
Capital Benefits Group in Texas Becomes a Higginbotham Company
Sep 11 2013 // Higginbotham and Capital Benefits Group have merged their operations, becoming what the companies believe to be the largest independent insurance and financial services employer in Central Texas. Higginbotham provides...
Business Moves
Jul 1 2013 // Heffernan, Consuasor Insurance Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Heffernan Insurance Brokers recently acquired Consuasor Insurance Advisors in New York. Founded in 2006, Consuasor is a multi-lines middle market broker with...
Sawyer Insurance Agency Merges with Higginbotham in Dallas
Jun 14 2013 // Higginbotham announced that Sawyer Insurance Agency has merged with its Dallas office. Sawyer Insurance in Richardson, Texas, has been owned and operated by agent Mike Sawyer since 1975. He and two insurance professionals...
Business Moves – South Central
Jan 28 2013 // Caldwell and Partners, Midlands Holding Corp. Oklahoma-based Caldwell and Partners Inc. (CAP) acquired Midlands Holding Corp. (MHC) from PMA Capital Corp. (PMA). Midlands Management Corp. (Midlands) is a managing general...
Houston’s Chapman Schewe Now a Higginbotham Company
Jan 17 2013 // Higginbotham and Chapman Schewe Benefits Consulting have merged their operations in Houston. Fort Worth, Texas-based independent insurance broker, Higginbotham, will engage Chapman Schewe to supplement the in-house...
Crocker Joins Higginbotham as Real Estate Practice Leader
Jan 10 2013 // Commercial insurance broker William J. Crocker has joined Higginbotham Insurance Group in Austin, Texas, as vice president, real estate practice leader. Crocker will help build the firm’s presence in the real estate...
Coastal Insurance Group Becomes a Higginbotham Company
Dec 12 2012 // Fort Worth-based independent insurance firm, Higginbotham, and Coastal Insurance Group LLC announced the merger of their operations in Friendswood, Texas. Coastal Insurance Group, a personal and commercial insurance broker...
Higginbotham Adds Carmichael as VP in Employee Benefits Practice
Nov 14 2012 // Fort Worth-based Higginbotham has hired former U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) investigator Ross Carmichael as the new vice president of compliance and operations for its employee benefits division. He will be based in the...
Higginbotham Expands Dallas and Houston Business Insurance Staff
Jul 11 2012 // Dallas-based independent insurance firm, Higginbotham, hired broker and sales producer Byron E. Johnson as executive vice president within its commercial property and casualty division. Johnson and his account service team...
Business Moves – South Central
Jun 4 2012 // BenefitSpecialists, Higginbotham Insurance Group Higginbotham Insurance Group and BenefitSpecialists announced the merger of their operations in Houston. BenefitSpecialists, an employee benefits broker in Houston, will...
BenefitSpecialists Joins Higginbotham Insurance Group
May 10 2012 // Higginbotham Insurance Group and BenefitSpecialists announced the merger of their operations in Houston. BenefitSpecialists, an employee benefits broker in Houston, will align capabilities with Higginbotham to offer a...
Higginbotham Appoints Shell to Lead Transportation Insurance Unit
Feb 17 2012 // Texas-based independent insurance and financial service firm, Higginbotham, has appointed commercial insurance broker Jack Shell to develop its new transportation unit. Shell, hired in April 2011 at Higginbotham’s...
People
Oct 17 2011 // Higginbotham & Associates has promoted commercial insurance broker Mike Bateman to its managing director group for 2012. Bateman, who joined Higginbotham’s Dallas office in 2004, was promoted from account...
