Higginbotham extends South Louisiana presence with new partnership

Texas-based Higginbotham has introduced a collaboration with Eagan Insurance coverage of Metairie, Louisiana, in a partnership that’s set to boost the attain of each companies of their respective markets.

Marc Eagan, president of Eagan Insurance coverage, reassured stakeholders that the essence of Eagan Insurance coverage would stay intact.

“Everyone feels so snug with the individuals we’ve handled at Higginbotham,” he mentioned. “Everyone seems to be skilled, but all the way down to earth. They’re keen to leap in the place we’d like them, however they’re arms off once we don’t. We’ve really discovered an awesome companion right here — one which values our enterprise and the relationships we’ve constructed and desires to hitch us in these relationships, not remold them.”

Rusty Reid, chairman and CEO of Higginbotham, emphasised the agency’s development technique by partnerships with firms that align with their values of group involvement, shopper service, and group help.

“At Higginbotham, we simply celebrated our seventy fifth anniversary final yr, so we perceive the significance of connection to group, help for purchasers, and consideration for teammates to longevity,” Reid mentioned. “Eagan Insurance coverage has an identical historical past. They’re at present celebrating their seventieth anniversary — and the Eagan household title goes again even additional, as New Orleans enterprise homeowners since 1854. We’re proud to type a relationship with the corporate and the individuals who carry that title.”

“Incomes that respect and belief is essential to us”

Eagan additionally highlighted the deep group ties and the evolving wants of their enterprise.

“The realm round New Orleans may be like an enormous village, the place everyone is aware of everyone and desires to do enterprise with individuals they know and belief,” Eagan defined. “Incomes that respect and belief is essential to us and at all times will probably be. However insurance coverage is getting extra difficult yearly. We knew we wanted to convey on further assets to proceed providing the perfect shopper service and group help.”

Marcus F Eagan, vice chairman of Eagan Insurance coverage and one in all Marc Eagan’s three sons concerned within the agency, mentioned the sensible advantages of partnering with a bigger agency.

“Higginbotham offers us a lot extra horsepower, with assets for our group, like advertising help, and for our purchasers, just like the Day Two Providers that improve protection with value-added threat administration help by the life of every coverage,” he mentioned. “However most essential, their tradition meshes with ours. We all know they’re going to assist us care for our purchasers and care for our group as properly.”

The partnership marks a major step for each companies as they search to increase their providers and shopper base within the Southern US, notably within the Louisiana and Gulf Coast Mississippi areas.

Higginbotham’s partnership with Eagan additionally comes on the heels of one other current deal, with the Texas-based agency transferring for Thompson & Smith Insurance coverage, an impartial company based mostly in Jackson, Tennessee.

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