Small Business Health Benefits
Your Team Can Actually Use

I'm Willman, an independent employee benefits consultant licensed in five states. I'm contracted with many carriers, which means I can put the plan that fits your budget and your people in front of you, instead of the one plan I'm allowed to sell.

Contracted, not captive
Many carriers, including the major ACA plans
Built for 2 to 50 employees
Small business is the whole practice, not a side segment
The same person every time
At enrollment, at renewal, and when a claim goes wrong
Budget, taxes and compliance together
Because moving one of them always moves the others
Licensed Health Insurance Agent
Independent, Not Captive
No Cost to Switch Brokers
Small Business Only — 2 to 50 Employees
Where We Operate

Licensed in Five States

We write employer health coverage and employee benefits for small businesses based in any of the following states.

  • Florida
  • Ohio
  • Michigan
  • South Carolina
  • Texas
Map of the United States with Florida, Ohio, Michigan, South Carolina, and Texas highlighted.
A Question Worth Asking

Is Your Current Agent Captive?

How many carriers is your agent actually contracted with? If the answer is one, that isn't a character flaw. It's their contract.

A captive agent can only sell you what their carrier sells. So the best option available that you were shown was really the best option they were allowed to show you. Anything better sitting one carrier over never made it into the room.

That is how a small business ends up paying more for less. And when the premium climbs, the employer contribution is usually what gets squeezed, until the employee's share gets high enough that people quietly opt out of their own coverage. That last part is the one that actually costs you: it is how good employees end up uninsured, and how they end up leaving for the company down the road that pays a little less but covers a lot more.

You Only Ever See One Shelf

One carrier's plans, presented as the whole market. We're contracted across many carriers, including the major ACA plans and supplemental lines, so a quote from us is a comparison rather than a pitch.

Service Disappears After the Signature

Plenty of businesses hear from their agent twice: once at the sale, once at renewal. When a claim gets denied in March, nobody picks up. We stay reachable year-round, including after hours, because that's when people actually have time to ask.

Renewal Arrives as a Number, Not a Negotiation

An increase lands in your inbox and the only question you're asked is whether to sign. We benchmark your plan against comparable groups, re-shop the market, and go into the renewal ready to push back with something behind it.

Your Benefits Aren't Competitive Enough to Keep People

Losing a good employee to a larger competitor's benefits package costs far more than the coverage would have. Often the fix isn't a bigger budget, it's a better structure: the same spend arranged so it buys more for the people it's meant to protect.

Nobody Is Watching the Tax and Compliance Side

Premiums are only part of the cost. A Section 125 arrangement changes what you and your employees pay in payroll tax. Reporting and notice requirements shift as your headcount changes. We keep those in the conversation instead of leaving them for your accountant to discover later.

Willman, founder of Willman & Partners
Why I Do This

A Bill My Family Couldn't Pay

When I was eleven, I got hurt playing sports. Both of my parents had insurance available through their jobs, and both of them had opted out, because opting out meant a little more in every paycheck.

So the bill came to us instead. It was about two thousand dollars, and we couldn't pay it. By the time I turned eighteen, interest and collections had grown it past nineteen thousand. I was afraid to go to college, not because of tuition, but because of a hospital bill I got at eleven years old.

I started working in health insurance that same year. That's still the whole job to me: make sure the employer understands what they're actually buying, make sure the employee understands what they actually have, and make sure nobody learns how their plan works for the first time in an emergency room.

Willman
Founder, Willman & Partners

If it's easier, just call. (813) 813-9877

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What We Handle

Health Is Where Most Conversations Start

It's rarely where they end. Most of what keeps an employee at a company sits in the lines nobody quoted them.

Group Health Insurance Fully insured, level-funded and self-funded plans from the major carriers.
Dental, Vision & Ancillary The coverage employees notice month to month, priced as part of the whole.
Group Life Insurance Employer-paid basic life, with voluntary options for employees who want more.
Disability & Parental Leave Short and long-term disability, including how maternity leave is actually paid for.
Hospital & Supplemental Hospital indemnity, accident and critical illness for what a deductible leaves behind.
Workers' Compensation Coordinated alongside your benefits rather than handled by a separate stranger.
Compliance Support Notices, reporting and the requirements that change as your headcount does.
Tax Strategy Section 125, HSA and HRA structures so the same dollars go further before tax.
If Your Crew Is 1099

A Group Plan Can't Cover a Subcontractor. Something Else Can.

In trucking and construction, the people who make you money usually aren't W-2 — so most agents have nothing at all to offer them.

Your drivers and your subs can take dental, vision, accident, life and disability through the business, at the business's rate rather than the retail rate they would pay on their own. They enroll, they pay, and the business contributes nothing. It is the difference between answering "nothing" when a good man asks what you offer, and answering with something.

How the 1099 program works

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Let's Look at What
You're Actually Paying For

Bring your current plan to a 30-minute call. We'll walk through what it covers, what it leaves your employees exposed to, and whether there's a better structure for the same money. If there isn't, we'll tell you that.