Higginbotham, the largest independent insurance, financial and HR services firm headquartered in Texas and one of the top firms in the country, has joined forces with Total Employee Benefits (TEB) of Atlanta, Georgia, after a courtship period revealed the two firms’ shared commitment to client advocacy and crisis support.
As Higginbotham celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, Chairman and CEO Rusty Reid looks to the future with a program of strategic growth, bringing on board agencies and teams that enjoy sterling reputations in their local markets and share the same energy, culture, values, and commitment to service as Higginbotham.
“We’re proud of our property and casualty practice in Atlanta,” said Reid, “but we really wanted to step up the employee benefits side. With TEB, we couldn’t have found a better, more experienced, and more like-minded ally for achieving that goal.
“TEB Practice Leader Rachael A. Collier has been in this space since 1992. She was named top female insurance advisor by the Atlanta Business Chronicle for the last two years and was named top broker in Georgia this year. She has run a practice, she knows the benefits space inside and out, and she knows the region. But best of all, she and the whole TEB team share our commitment to client advocacy.”
“At TEB, client advocacy is our number one value proposition,” Collier agreed. “We recognize that health care is always personal. So along with handling benefits brokerage, administration, enrollment, employee onboarding, and ongoing compliance, we know that we’re supporting clients and their employees through times of real, personal crisis.
“In the modern health care system, any diagnosis becomes a cluster of red tape. People feel lost and don’t know who to turn to. That’s when the TEB team steps up. We will meet with our clients’ employees wherever they are, even in the hospital — and we’ll meet with hospital admins to get whatever employees need.”
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