HELPING OTHERS Montana agency focuses on the experience for customers and vendor partners By Dennis H. Pillsbury How would you like to provide a product that no one wants to buy and no one wants to use? That’s insurance. It’s both loved and hated. Hated when you have to pay the bill, but loved when it makes you whole again after you have a loss that could result in
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LASER-FOCUSED SERVICE Alabama agency focuses risk management expertise on commercial niches By Dennis Pillsbury When Barrie H. Harmon III founded the Harmon Co. in1977, he probably had no idea it would grow to become one of the largest and most respected independent agencies in Alabama—providing risk management services to carefully targeted commercial niches throughout the state and with clientele across the country. What he did know was business and that
PRESERVE AND SERVE Honoring the past while building a future for community, the agency, and others By Dennis H. Pillsbury “I stand on the shoulders of my ancestors,” says Joshua Morey, president of The J. Morey Company, Inc., an independent agency with four offices in southern California. He’s referring to his decision to follow his father into a business that he learned “was of great importance to our community. It
RIGHT PEOPLE, RIGHT SEATS Georgia agency attracts talent with its emphasis on personal growth along with agency growth By Dennis Pillsbury “Our team has created a healthy work home, and we’re just getting started,” says Stephen (Steve) M. Harmon, AAI, ARM, principal at Snellings Walters Insurance Agency, Atlanta, Georgia. Steve joined the agency in 2007 as part of its transformation from a family-owned business to one that offers opportunities for
THIRTY–FOURTH ANNUAL 2022 ROUGH NOTES AGENCY OF THE YEAR CANDIDATE One of the agencies featured in a Rough Notes cover story during 2022 will be named Agency of the Year. The winner will be selected from votes by previous Rough Notes cover agents. The principals of the winning firm will be presented with the award at a dinner held in their honor this spring. The nominees for this year’s award
