The Word & Brown Companies are recognized as the nation’s leaders in providing innovations that simplify
and streamline an employer’s administration of their healthcare programs.
Headquartered in California, The Word & Brown Companies are experts in all aspects of individual and group benefits
distribution and administration throughout the nation.
In 1984, John M. Word III and Edward J. “Rusty” Brown, Jr. founded Word & Brown Insurance Administrators, Inc. –
the Word & Brown General Agency - to develop and market innovative sales tools and quoting systems that would assist
brokers in delivering the best group health plan options to small employers. Two years later, Word & Brown became the
largest independent small group health distributor in the nation.
The nation’s Fortune 500 companies’ and other businesses’ growing demand for benefits administration products and
services led to the Word & Brown Companies’ expansion, in 2002, of CONEXIS – its successful employee benefits
administration program – and in 2003, into the nation’s only fully Web-enabled flexible benefits and COBRA administration
technology that serves major employers, third party administrators and municipalities.
In 2007, Word & Brown began their national expansion of their successful General Agency model to the state of Nevada.
Through more than 20 years of growth, The Word & Brown Companies have focused on innovation, geographic prominence and
exceeding their customers’ expectations.