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About Us

Premier Benefit Consulting is an insurance brokerage and consulting firm committed to providing personalized service. It is critical that your brokerage partner have the experience and resources to provide comprehensive solutions. PBM is your single-source partner. 

A rapidly changing regulatory environment (health care reform), rising employee benefit costs, complex reporting requirements and challenging compliance issues have driven consolidation in the insurance brokerage community. This may make financial sense for buyers and sellers, but we believed personalized service to the client and their employees is often sacrificed in the process.

We started Premier Benefit Consulting after living through an acquisition by a national broker and personally experiencing the focus on growth rather than developing close partnerships with clients that emphasize controlling costs and providing quality consulting advice to guide employers through the rapidly changing regulatory environment.

Premier Benefit Consulting’s focus is on high-quality, local service but also leveraging our 150+ years of experience in the industry to sort through the unique set of challenges each Employer may face. Our extensive resources allow us to customize a plan and design the systems needed to keep the Employer compliant and bend the cost curve.

Industry consolidation has not only resulted in lower quality service but has also pushed a lot of senior consultants out of the business, making it more difficult to find the experience required to develop robust long-term solutions.

While we incorporate the best systems for your needs, technology does not solve complex problems, people do. Premier Benefit Management is a privately held, local company, whose singular focus is to address the specific needs of the business community in Arkansas, which we believe are being under served by the large, centralized brokerage firms.

Founded by a 25-year veteran of the employee benefits industry, Premier is fully independent and our only priority is to find the best solutions for our entrepreneurial client base. We want our clients to focus on their business and to feel confident that Premier is taking care of their Employee Benefits, Business Insurance, Life Insurance and Retirement Plans. Your single source solution.

Our Difference

  • We are your best practices Advocate
  • We are your experienced, innovative, strategic partners
  • Providing white glove concierge service
  • Providing sustained profitability protection
  • A nimble, privately held local company with a trusted reputation in the industry
  • National and Global resources
  • A dedicated team of cross functional team of experts

Our Team

When people in our industry talk about their greatest point of differentiation, they inevitably say “our people”, but what they fail to say is that usually means “our person”, meaning the one individual who will be assigned to your account to serve as the “jack-of-all-trades”. So, when we say that “our people” are our greatest point of differentiation, we really do mean it in the plural sense. We’ll stack your account with a highly skilled, cross-functional team of subject-matter experts in each of our core areas of expertise.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Analytics
  • Automation
  • Communications & Engagement
  • Compliance
  • Cost Containment
  • Engagement
  • Wellness

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT

PREMIER BENEFIT
MANAGEMENT

“I once described her as a Pit Bull, when it came to negotiating my renewal. She is persistent, yet extremely knowledgeable and understands all the points of leverage to negotiate for the best pricing.”
– Terri Thompson, President; Electrical Firm
– Terri Thompson,
“Two weeks after my daughter was found unconscious and rushed to a hospital in California, I got a call from the hospital saying that they were not only out of network but the treatment she was receiving in their rehabilitation facility was a policy exclusion. They advised me that my daughter was too fragile to be released I need to make private payment arrangements for her to stay. That was when my CFO told me to call Dawn. I had never met Dawn, however, she went above and beyond to try to get her treatment approved. After multiple failed attempts met with the Medical Director of the Insurance company and they made a policy exception. She let us know they had approved my daughter to remain in this facility until she had made a full recovery. I didn’t know what to say as I began to thank her. I couldn’t hold back the tears and the gratitude I felt. It was not only a monumental achievement; it was monumental to my daughter’s life. You do not find someone that offers that level of service or compassion in the world today.”
– Jeff Powell,Senior Sales Executive; Roofing Manufacturing Industry
– Jeff Powell,
“I have worked with Dawn for over 15 years, she has worked diligently to get the best possible rates for all of our benefits. She is professional, innovative and a pleasure to work with. Dawn has historically negotiated significant savings annually, therefore I have the highest level of confidence when I present to our Board of Directors for our annual budget. As a director of Human Resource for 30 years, the regulatory requirements and legislative changes have made my role increasing difficult. Therefore, I have become increasingly dependent on Dawn’s wealth of knowledge and problem solving ability to support my role. It’s a coin phrase in corporate office “Call Dawn” when anything out of the ordinary comes up.”
– Leighann,Director of Human Resources; Home Health Industry
– Leighann,
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