At Smith Brothers Insurance we serve as your family confidant and business’s enterprise risk manager. We’ve been in business for over 50 years, as an independently operated, Top 100 Broker, working towards our purpose of Helping Others. We use our consultative approach and personalized service to understand and manage your risk, protect your assets, and help you achieve your goals.

Roland Florenze's Providence, RI office stands as a prominent player in the insurance brokerage landscape, boasting a substantial footprint within the city. As a larger office, they leverage their extensive experience to cater to a diverse clientele, excelling in servicing self-funded clients and offering support to both local and regional employers. With a proven track record, Roland Florenze has become a trusted advisor for businesses of varying sizes. Their portfolio showcases successful partnerships with small, midsize, and large employers, underlining their adaptability and competence across the spectrum. Noteworthy is their specialization in the nondepository credit intermediation industry, with a particular focus on clients such as Embrace Home Loans and The Moore Company. The former, a key player in the industry based in RI, benefits from Roland Florenze's expertise, providing insurance solutions to over 470 participants. Similarly, The Moore Company, a significant player in the miscellaneous manufacturing sector in RI, relies on the broker's services for their 120+ participants. As part of a local brokerage firm, Roland Florenze's Providence location seamlessly combines local insights with industry expertise. This synergy positions them as a valuable partner for employer benefits buyers seeking comprehensive and tailored insurance solutions.

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Partners Together - Endless Possibilities Hilb Group provides the resources of a big insurance broker and the attentive, personal service of a small agency. Our people are our greatest strength. Our values of trust, passion, integrity and growth drive our actions to benefit every client. Managing Risk Your risk profile doesn’t matter – Hilb paints a very wide portrait. We have more than 30 industry specialties, which gives our clients and brokers a unique advantage. We form enduring partnerships to get the best results every time, and work with the top insurers to provide a huge range of high-quality choices, matched exactly to your needs. About Hilb Group Founded in 2009, Hilb Group is a Top 25 middle market independent insurance broker. Hilb Group offers expertise in property & casualty, employee benefits, and retirement services to business and individuals throughout the nation.

At Risk Strategies, we help our clients protect those things that matter most to them. We help them see the way forward in a complex world with specialty insight, practical advice, and custom insurance with a vast network of specialists in Property & Casualty, Employee Benefits, Private Client, as well as Consulting Services and Financial and Wealth Management solutions. We are a different kind of insurance brokerage – bringing a strategic, holistic, specialist approach to our clients, so they can face the future with confidence. We are the 9th largest privately held insurance broker in the US with over 30 specialty practices, 200+ locations, and 5,000 team members (and counting!). We love what we do, and it shows. For five straight years, we were named one of the Best Places to Work by Business Insurance. In 2024, we earned certification as a Great Place to Work. Risk Strategies is an Accession Risk Management Group company, a family of specialty insurance distribution and risk management companies powered by a shared vision of delivering a superior client and employee experience.

At Risk Strategies, we help our clients protect those things that matter most to them. We help them see the way forward in a complex world with specialty insight, practical advice, and custom insurance with a vast network of specialists in Property & Casualty, Employee Benefits, Private Client, as well as Consulting Services and Financial and Wealth Management solutions. We are a different kind of insurance brokerage – bringing a strategic, holistic, specialist approach to our clients, so they can face the future with confidence. We are the 9th largest privately held insurance broker in the US with over 30 specialty practices, 200+ locations, and 5,000 team members (and counting!). We love what we do, and it shows. For five straight years, we were named one of the Best Places to Work by Business Insurance. In 2024, we earned certification as a Great Place to Work. Risk Strategies is an Accession Risk Management Group company, a family of specialty insurance distribution and risk management companies powered by a shared vision of delivering a superior client and employee experience.

A repeat winner of the SouthCoast Media Group’s award for Best Insurance Agency, Sylvia Group uses SPS – the SG Protection System – to empower businesses and individuals with performance-based insurance, benefits and financial planning programs. SPS makes our clients active participants in managing risk and containing premiums, resulting in coverage that is both customized and cost-effective. Our areas of business insurance expertise include medical device and other forms of manufacturing, property management and development, municipalities and other nonprofit organizations, construction companies and contractors, and the food and hospitality industry. Our personal insurance products include the basics of home, auto and life, as well as specialty coverages such as cyber, watercraft and valuable items. In addition to making a difference for our clients, we make a difference for our community as a whole by actively supporting and serving many of southern New England’s most reputable and effective nonprofit organizations and institutions. We make a difference for our employees, too, providing competitive wages and benefits, state-of-the-art training and education, ample community service opportunities and an office environment that proves a workplace can be fun as well as professional. In 2020, Sylvia Group became an Alera Group company, enabling us to combine the local, personal service for which we're known with the scope and resources of a national firm.

At Starkweather & Shepley, we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit of our clients. It is within this spirit that we can confidently facilitate an effective relationship to assist our clients in managing and reducing their ultimate cost of risk. Our teams of professionals possess the requisite intellectual capital to properly analyze operational, financial, and strategic risk – to best protect your bottom line. www.starshep.com Media/Press Inquiries - Stefan Petrella, [email protected]

We help employers manage the current risks and future costs of their health care plans by utilizing self-funding as their most cost effective and transparent health insurance option. An advocate for your plan and its beneficiaries, we help preserve plan affordability while maintaining quality provider access and care. Extensive service offerings and an experienced team allow us to manage every aspect of your health plan – from design and administration to proactive cost control through work-site health and wellness programs and disease management solutions. Diversified Group gives your company the tools and data it needs to gain control over health care expense. Plan members get financial protection and information they can use to maintain good health and a clear pathway to quality care. Diversified Group is a third party administrator based in Marlborough, CT. The Diversified Group of Companies... Your Solution to Health Benefits.

Patriot is a national agency specializing in Employee Benefits, Property & Casualty and Personal insurance solutions. Backed by growth equity investors GI Partners and Summit Partners, Patriot is among the fastest-growing insurance services firms in the United States.

At Smith Brothers Insurance we serve as your family confidant and business’s enterprise risk manager. We’ve been in business for over 50 years, as an independently operated, Top 100 Broker, working towards our purpose of Helping Others. We use our consultative approach and personalized service to understand and manage your risk, protect your assets, and help you achieve your goals.

Cross Insurance is a family owned insurance agency with over 40 branches throughout the Northeast. Established at the kitchen table of Woodrow Cross in 1954, today we have become one of New England’s largest independent insurance intermediaries. In 2023 and 2024 we were named the 2nd Largest Insurance Broker in Massachusetts. Since our founding, we have successfully acquired over 150 operations, increasing our footprint on the Northeast. With over 1,100 employees and counting, our experienced team is ready to provide insurance options for you. - 27th Largest Broker of U. S. Business, Per Business Insurance report ’20 - 2nd Largest Insurance Broker in Massachusetts, per Boston Business Journal ’22, '23, and '24 - Official Insurance Broker of the New England Patriots, Gillette Stadium, the Boston Bruins, the Boston Red Sox, and New England Revolution Four generations later, Cross Insurance is still family owned and operated. Cross Insurance is headquartered in Bangor, Maine.