Higginbotham, the broad-based, employee-owned insurance, financial and HR services firm headquartered in Fort Worth, has expanded into Indiana through the acquisition of Synergy Insurance of Mishawaka.<\/p>\n
The collaboration marks Higginbotham\u2019s first footprint in the Hoosier State and strengthens support for Synergy\u2019s commercial, employee benefits and personal lines clients while creating a shared platform for growth across a key Great Lakes corridor.<\/p>\n
\u201cSynergy is exactly the kind of agency we look for when we go into a new state,\u201d Reid said. \u201cThey\u2019ve spent nearly 20 years growing the right way in northern Indiana and they share our belief that if you invest in your community and your people, the business will follow. Together we can bring more resources to their team and their clients and start building out a Great Lakes corridor that reaches across Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Ohio.\u201d<\/p>\n
Synergy\u2019s origins trace to the Michael Reddy Agency, founded by president and CEO Mike Reddy Jr. and his father. The firm expanded under longtime leader Billy Bridwell and merged into Synergy Insurance Group in 2006. Its ownership group \u2014 Reddy, Bridwell, Nathan Spite, David Atkinson and Rick Nystrand \u2014 has more than doubled the agency\u2019s size since 2020, driven primarily by new business.<\/p>\n
As the agency\u2019s growth accelerated, Reddy said the owners sought a larger partner. \u201cWe built a carefully targeted list,\u201d Reddy said, noting Higginbotham\u2019s employee-owned structure and support for regional teams. Bridwell added that the firms\u2019 shared values made the partnership a natural fit.<\/p>\n
Synergy\u2019s brokers also gain access to Higginbotham\u2019s data-driven resources and Day Two Services\u00ae. \u201cBut the industry is moving fast,\u201d Nystrand said, emphasizing the added capabilities now available.<\/p>\n
\u201cLinking our future with Higginbotham lets us keep that identity while giving our team and our clients the kind of resources you only see in much bigger markets,\u201d Reddy concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Higginbotham, the broad-based, employee-owned insurance, financial and HR services firm headquartered in Fort Worth, has expanded into Indiana…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,60,7371,11095,7372,147729,2862,7337,8396,202675,358,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-438495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-financial-services","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fort-worth-inc-staff","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-higginbotham","14":"tag-indiana","15":"tag-insurance","16":"tag-mergers-and-acquisitions","17":"tag-synergy-insurance","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-top-story","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115697092382704737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}