Higginbotham partners with Stephens Insurance Services

Fort Worth-based employee-owned insurance, financial, and HR services firm Higginbotham has partnered with Lubbock-based Stephens Insurance Services to strengthen its benefits offerings across West Texas and eastern New Mexico.

Stephens Insurance Services specializes in three key areas: group benefits, individual health and life benefits and Medicare advisory assistance. With the added Higginbotham resources, the firm looks forward to providing a broader spectrum of services, without diluting that specialty focus.

“Stephens is West Texas born and bred and laser-focused on relationships and community. By combining their trusted local leadership and decades of benefits experience with our resources, we’re building an unbeatable team that can provide single-source solutions to any client in West Texas — even the most complicated public sector and commercial accounts.” – Rusty Reid, Chairman and CEO of Higginbotham.

“It’s about being good at what we do, and not trying to do everything ourselves. That focus on what we do best helped introduce us to Higginbotham, as we’ve had great experiences referring our clients to their property & casualty teams. Now we get to have those same people in house, making sure our clients get everything they need under one banner. We’re particularly excited to work side by side with Higginbotham Public Sector. We’ve talked to school districts out here who are torn between wanting to maintain those West Texas relationships but also needing the depth of service and specialty divisions that only big companies provide. Now we can walk in with those local boots on the ground — and the backing of an entire specialty practice focused on public sector employers.” – Zach Stephens, Owner/broker & the son of Ed Stephens.