"After two years of frustration with our current Insurance Broker, I started interviewing potential replacements. We interviewed at least twelve different brokers and DeTrude & Company was the clear winner."
"After making the change four years ago, we have had nothing but success. DeTrude has led us through a conversation from being self-insured to becoming fully insured which saved our company money and headaches. They have helped us with plan design and the introduction of a Health Savings Account. With the advice and assistance of the DeTrude Team, we and our employees are thrilled with our benefit plan."
"DeTrude has always come through for me. No matter how off the wall my questions is, they know the answer. Anytime I have run into a bump in the road they educate me and either solve the problem for me or hold my hand while it gets solved. I would not want to do my job without DeTrude on my team!"
Angela Danner, V.P. Human Resources,
Wood-Mizer Products, Inc.
"Excellent group of individuals who definitely go out of their way to customize the type of service requested. They are always ready to answer questions and assist with special requests. Overall, a great group of individuals who, together, make up one great company."
Cheryl Schaffer, Office Manager,
Schultz & Pogue LLP
"DeTrude and Company (D&C) provides ILS with the expertise necessary to understand the complexities of the health insurance plans being offered in the marketplace. ILS has just begun to offer employees, on a voluntary basis, a health savings account (HSA) as an alternative to our traditional core plan. D&C participated in a number of staff training programs to help employees better understand an HSA including a web-based training event. D&C helps to negotiate the best competitive annual health insurance premium with our health insurance carrier. Finally, D&C provides ILS with the time consuming service of shopping our plan to carriers in an effort to get the best plan at the most economical rate. D&C's service is invaluable to ILS."
Norman Metzger, Executive Director,
Indiana Legal Services, Inc.
"Kightlinger & Gray, LLP has had a business relationship with DeTrude & Company for over 25 years. They have continually analyzed our business needs and provided us with a variety of insurance products to meet those needs. They have protected our interests and presented new products when appropriate. The personnel at DeTrude & Company are professional and responsive and I highly recommend them as one of our preferred vendors."
Jennifer S. Ellis, Director of Administration,
Kightlinger & Gray, LLP
"DeTrude & Company, our Firm's independent broker for medical, dental, life, supplemental life, long-term care and long term disability, was able to help us attain a "0" percent increase in the ever changing, ever increasing, healthcare market."
"Personally working in the law firm environment for over 20 years, I have found Keith DeTrude and Steve Gregory to be the most experienced, ethical brokers, dealing with the ever changing demands, needs, and wants of our very specialized and sophisticated area... law firms and attorneys. Finding new and creative ways to help control costs, leverage our benefit dollars, and strategizing for the future are these gentlemen's expertise."
Lisa Heldman, Benefits Administrator,
Locke Reynolds LLP
"DeTrude and Company provides a comprehensive benefits consulting service to Barnes & Thornburg LLP. They understand the client perspective and unique goals. Their expertise extends beyond the sale. We particularly appreciate their proactive review and identification of possible improvements to our benefits programs."
Jane Daily, Benefits Administrator,
Barnes & Thornburg LLP
"I am the Partner at Ice Miller LLP responsible for assisting our Human Resources Director and Managing Partner design and implement our health and welfare employee benefit plans. I am also responsible for the plans' compliance with the various legal requirements affecting health and welfare plans including ERISA, HIPAA, FMLA, etc. Keith DeTrude of DeTrude and Company has provided Ice Miller with health plan consulting services for as long as I have worked with our Firm's benefit plans (for approximately seven years). Our experience with Keith has been superb. Keith has taken us through a number of plan designs over the years and, during the past couple of years, has helped us worked through an analysis of whether to implement a consumer driven health care program that might include a health savings account. While we have chosen not to implement a health savings account, Keith's insight on cost and issues such as adverse selection has been invaluable. Because of his extensive work with law firms, Keith has a unique feel for the legal marketplace and understands the effects that a properly designed health and welfare plans has on the unique recruitment and retention issues faced by laws firms. Moreover, Keith understands the unique ownership structure of law firms and the vested interest each partner (over 100 in our Firm) has in the costs related to self-funded health plans. His strong relationship with insurers and third-party administrators provides him with the creditability to act as an effective advocate on our behalf. Keith has also provided important services to us in relation to our long term disability plans. Because of the relatively high incomes of partners in a law firm, finding the proper long term disability policy can be a challenging task. Keith has aggressively worked with long term disability carriers to provide us with appropriate coverage for our partners and has acted as an effective intermediary and advocate with long term disability carriers when our partners have been in the unfortunate position of submitting claims to the long term disability carrier. I cannot recommend highly enough Keith and his team to assist law firms with their health and welfare benefit consulting needs."
Christopher S. Sears, Partner,
Ice Miller LLP