Agency of the Month In a historic setting, Williamsburg, Virginia Most people who visit Williamsburg, Virginia, come to have a conversation with George Washington or Thomas Jefferson, or simply to drift back more than two and a half centuries to a simpler time, when the ideas that created the American democracy were being discussed in each of the 13 colonies. But none was more important than Virginia, the largest and
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Texas agency finds new ways to take care of clients Bigham-Kliewer-Chapman-Watts,now doing business as BKCW Insurance, Risk Management & Benefits, Killeen, Texas, traces its roots back to 1952 when William S. Bigham of Waco was asked by a friend to recommend an agent in Killeen. He couldn’t. So he became one, starting out in life insurance and then forming a partnership in 1958 and opening his first agency. When the
Southern California agency makes clients, insurers, employees and community feel special “Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.”—Anna Taylor Most of us have enjoyed that special moment when we meet someone with whom we have an instant rapport. Almost before we get to know them they are already our best friend. Well, for a lot
Florida agency develops risk topography across personal, professional and enterprise risks What happens when you bring together experienced insurance people and a vision to provide holistic risk management services that cross all lines of business in the personal, commercial, and employee benefits arenas? Well, in the case of Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners (BKS), Tampa, Florida, you get a firm that reaches total annual revenue of nearly $24 million in just
But service to clients continues to rely on the same values at this fifth-generation Texas agency “Insurance will be the next big industry.” That’s what W. G. Garrett Jr. and L. D. Garrett heard when they mustered out of World War I. But they both had other jobs, working for Captain Schreiner at a general merchandise store in their hometown of Kerrville, Texas. It was one of the first businesses
