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Watkins Insurance Group Retains IIABA Best Practices Agency Status

By October 25, 2021February 2nd, 2023No Comments

It has been announced that for 2021, Watkins Insurance Group (Austin Texas) continues to be part of an elite group of independent insurance agencies around the United States participating in the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) Best Practices Study Group.

The selected Best Practices agencies retain their status during the three-year cycle by submitting extensive financial and operational data for review each year. This is the third year of the current three-year study cycle, where over 1000 independent agencies throughout the U.S. were nominated to take part in the annual study in 2019, but only 262 agencies qualified for the honor. To be chosen, the agency had to be among the 35-45 top-performing agencies in one of six revenue categories.

The Best Practices Study was initiated by IIABA in 1993 as the foundation for efforts to improve agency performance. The annual Study of leading independent insurance agencies, which is conducted by the Big “I” and Reagan Consulting of Atlanta, GA, documents the business practices of these “best” agencies and urges others to adopt similar practices.

The 2021 Best Practices Study sponsors include:  Amerisure, Applied, Allstate/Encompass/NatGen Premier/National General Insurance, Central Insurance, Chubb, EMC Insurance, The Hanover Insurance Group, The Hartford, Imperial PFS, InsurBanc, Liberty Mutual/Safeco Insurance, Foremost, Nationwide, Progressive, Travelers, Vertafore and Westfield.

Privately owned and Austin-based, Watkins Insurance Group has been the advocate of choice for insurance and risk management solutions since 1949. The agency’s commitment to personal service helps make the family-owned agency stand apart from any other competing agencies which strive primarily on volume over quality customer care.

Founded in 1896, the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) is the nation’s oldest and largest national association of independent insurance agents and brokers, representing more than 25,000 agency locations united under the Trusted Choice brand. Trusted Choice independent agents offer consumers all types of insurance—property, casualty, life, health, employee benefit plans and retirement products—from a variety of insurance companies.