Hylant

Hylant is a family-owned insurance brokerage and risk management firm founded in Toledo, Ohio in 1935 by Edward P. Hylant. It places business insurance and employee benefits programmes and runs consulting practices in business risk, captives, international programmes, mergers and acquisitions, and cyber.

Business insurance work covers the design, placement and administration of every insurance line, plus risk management consulting, loss control engineering, risk financing, claim advocacy and analytics aimed at managing total cost of risk. The employee benefits practice designs compliant benefit programmes and includes healthcare analytics and cost containment. There are separate small business and personal lines teams, and a programme management unit for hard-to-place or underserved exposures. Hylant Capital, led by the firm's CFO, COO and president, invests alongside fund managers and independent sponsors.

Real estate is one of the named industry practices, alongside construction, franchise and hospitality, transportation and logistics, advanced manufacturing, automotive and others. The advisor directory can be filtered by practice area and location, listing Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Bloomington, Chicago, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Elkhart, Nashville, Atlanta, Alpharetta, Jacksonville, Orlando, Raleigh and Mexico.

The firm says it has been named a Best Places to Work in Insurance company every year since 2009 and describes itself as one of the largest family-owned insurance brokerage and consulting firms in the country. It also acquires agencies whose owners want to sell. Commissions and fees are not published; ask which carrier appointments the servicing office holds for the asset class.