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Brightway Insurance reviews

3.0

43% would recommend to a friend

(40 total reviews)

Nick Clements

44% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

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1.0
Apr 18, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

There are no pros to buying a Brightway franchise. They lose carrier appointments because they cannot maintain relationships and allow franchisees to write bad business. This hurts systemwide loss ratios and lowers your commission. In the eyes of the carrier, your loss ratios are those of the entire network and not your individual agency.

Cons

They cannot service. Clients receive bad info and turn times. They take 45% of renewals without shopping other carriers. They will make up lies to suspend your agency and take over your book. When doing so they will not provide any service and expose you to E&O claims. You'll also never be able to sell your agency. If you do manage to have success at Brightway, you could literally make 3x as much elsewhere or independent. You would also have equity in your business. They deserve 0 out of 5 stars.

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Brightway Insurance Response
8mo
We suspect that hundreds of successful Brightway agents across the country (many who write thousands of policies on an annual basis) would disagree with you. For well over a decade we have worked with over 100 insurance carriers, including top-tier national brands, to provide our agents with the best available options for their particular geography. To clear up numerous misleading statements in your comments: Brightway adheres to a strict code of ethics and maintains compliance with insurance regulations in all of the states in which we operate. We will only suspend an agency if the agency is in default of contractual obligations (and often after issuing multiple written warnings and attempting to work with agency management to resolve an identified issue). If an agency’s actions were egregious enough to risk damage to Brightway’s reputation, the livelihoods of our broader agency base, or our customers, we would absolutely act within our legal rights to protect our business, agents and customers. Carrier commissions can vary by state and product line, and may be modified based on the carrier’s overall performance. The majority of Brightway carriers look at the loss ratios of individual Brightway agents to evaluate their appointment as opposed to looking at the entire Brightway network. Any action taken by a Brightway home office advisor servicing a policy would fall under Brightway’s Home Office E&O policy and have no impact on an individual agent or agency. If a customer’s policy is canceled or non-renewed, it would likely have been the decision of the insurance company to allow that policy to expire based on the risk presented, or due to the customer’s decision to not pay for the renewal policy. Insurance companies reserve the right to adjust their underwriting guidelines to limit unacceptable risk. When insurance companies provide a customer with a policy non-renewal notice, Brightway’s centralized service team also communicates with the customer to minimize the chance of an unintended coverage lapse. Lastly, since our founding in 2008, we have assisted many agents in selling their agencies to other Brightway agents or transferring their agencies to an heir or successor. For agents that are unable to find a buyer, Brightway provides a contractually-guaranteed buyout at the end of their contract term.
4.0
Apr 17, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great hours and opportunity for bonuses throughout the year

Cons

Lot of information to know and huge workload

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Brightway Insurance Response
8mo
Surplus Lines (high risk or unusual risk coverage) is certainly more challenging than standard Personal Lines insurance. Thank you for your efforts to ensure that all of our customers have an opportunity to find insurance coverage to fit their unique needs.
1.0
Feb 5, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Provides a paycheck biweekly to pay bills.

Cons

Pays under market value. Bonuses have never been paid out fully as described at time of hire, nor have salary increases. Leadership does not understand talent acquisition, and continuously set unrealistic expectations and demand perfect results without providing the guardrails and support to be successful. Brightway gives the bare minimum allowed legally, and will continuously drain the life out of you until you are completed used up. From there, they will lay you off right before merit and bonuses and then repost your job within 2 days. This is after the HR department lies to your face when parting ways regarding "Why" your job was eliminated. Never received a metrics based performance review in 2.5 years. Asked for milestones/goals to better my career and never saw any form of help in professional development. The processes are absolutely backwards and those at the bottom suffer from it. Last manager that was hired without ANY input from myself as most tenured TA expert at the company only lasted 5 months before quitting without notice due to work conditions. Presented multiple instances of feedback to both managers and found out it was never even presented to anyone. Constantly told to "Reach out" if you have problems, but anytime I say my peace it is ignored because we "have to deliver". Worked 9-10 hour days last year to manage workload as a SINGLE department employee, and barely even got a thank you.

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Brightway Insurance Response
1y
Thank you for taking the time to share your detailed thoughts. We are disappointed to hear your time at Brightway felt misguided and your contributions felt misunderstood. As the insurance marketplace has evolved in recent years, Brightway proactively recruited a new CEO to re-energize our focus on our agents and customers, and apply new technologies to better serve the needs of both. Nick Clements has done exactly this, and the feedback on the changes he has implemented have been overwhelmingly positive – from agents, customers and our employees. That is not to say that our strategy has not shifted as we evolve to maintain a leadership position in the marketplace. This change has been challenging for some employees, as roles have also shifted to support the new strategy and a small number of positions have been eliminated to ensure budgets are allocated to drive results. The pressure to deliver for our agents and customers each and every day is very real. However, the results demonstrate that we are succeeding and Brightway is well positioned for the future thanks to our solid strategy, leadership team and our employees who care deeply for our agents and customers.
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