About Our Texas Office

Deep South entered the Texas marketplace in 1995. Since that time, the Dallas office has experienced unprecedented growth and has become the second largest Deep South office in the country, second only to Deep South of Louisiana, where the company was founded in 1967. The agency base for our Texas office is comprised of over 200 independent agencies.

Deep South is a full service office providing underwriting, claims handling, marketing and quality assurance. The staff of Deep South’s Texas office is well qualified, experienced and focused on commercial insurance products; our underwriters have an average of 25 years of underwriting experience.  The experienced underwriting staff has seen the ups and downs of the market cycles and is adept at underwriting in any environment.

Deep South is a select market for preferred commercial automobile, garage liability, garage keepers legal, general liability, property and inland marine programs.   Deep South offers products to industries such as construction, oil and gas services, healthcare, retailers, wholesalers, garage and service industries. Deep South's markets are Redland Insurance (admitted), Praetorian Specialty (non-admitted) and Old American County Mutual. Redland and Praetorian Specialty are A.M. Best rated "A-9". This empowers the Texas underwriting team with a unique ability to have an assertive approach for preferred accounts. Therefore, Deep South’s unparalleled dedication to service is a vehicle to provide unrivaled satisfaction to our customers.

Deep South is also staffed with professional loss control engineers. A staff loss control engineer personally inspects each account written by Deep South at the inception of the policy. Further services can be provided during the policy term, including driver training and participation in safety meetings.

Deep South has an in-house claims department. The claims department excels at providing top quality claims administration to our insureds through an innovative claims philosophy.

Deep South is a proud supporter of the Dallas Independent Insurance Agents Association, the Houston Independent Insurance Agents Association and the San Antonio Independent Insurance Agents Association.