NU Online News Service, June 2, 3:15 p.m. EDT

Fort Worth, Texas-based insurance broker Higginbotham & Associates, a former winner of National Underwriter's Agency of the Year Award, has acquired Houston-based The Essential Insurance Group, LLC.

Essential Insurance, founded in 1999 in Friendswood, Texas, is a property and casualty insurance and surety agency serving the greater Houston area with eight employees. The firm combines commercial and personal p&c coverage with risk management solutions to help customers control their cost of risk.

The firm will maintain its current name and Ryan Moss, president and founder of Essential will become a managing director.

With this acquisition Higginbotham said it now has a combined staff of 365 employees and 14 offices throughout Texas.

More information on the firm is available at www.higginbotham.net.

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