About us
About Highwood Life Insurance
Fifteen years of explaining coverage patiently, and of picking up the phone long after the policy arrives.
Why Does an Agency Need to Stay?
Ask most people who sold them their life insurance and many cannot remember. The policy arrived, the agent moved on and the paperwork went into a drawer. Then, years later, came a divorce, a new baby or a term policy about to expire, and nobody to call. Highwood Life Insurance was built to be the opposite of that experience.
Fifteen years in business have taught us that the most useful conversations have often come long after the sale. A client calling to change a beneficiary after a remarriage. A widow asking how to file a claim. A father wondering whether a raise means he needs more coverage. Those calls are part of the job, and we treat them that way.
The first conversation still matters, of course. We explain each option in plain English, compare the choices honestly and size coverage to what your family would actually need. But we measure ourselves by whether you call us again, and whether we are still here when you do.
What Are We Trying to Do?
Help every family understand its coverage completely, choose a policy it can keep and have a reliable place to turn for as long as that policy is in force. That means patient explanations, honest comparisons and an agency that answers the phone year after year.
What Sets This Agency Apart?
Help after the sale
Beneficiary changes, reviews and claim questions are handled as readily as new quotes.
Fifteen years of experience
In business for fifteen years, we have answered most questions many times and still take each one seriously.
Plain English
Every term defined, every number explained, as many times as you need.
Options compared
Term, whole and universal priced side by side, so the decision is yours.
Licensed and accountable
Licensed for personal-lines insurance, the agency puts a licensed agent on every call.
Reviews of any policy
Bring us coverage you bought elsewhere and we will read it with you.
What Can You Verify About Us?
Two plain facts about the agency you will be speaking with.
- Licensed for personal-lines insurance coverage
- Fifteen years in business and counting
Where Do We Work?
Highwood and the nearby communities of Highland Park, Deerfield, Bannockburn, Lake Forest, Northbrook, Glencoe, Lake Bluff, Riverwoods, Lincolnshire, Northfield and Winnetka.
Shall We Start a Conversation?
Who are the people you want to protect? Start there. We will explain everything patiently, and we will still be here afterward.