The Iroquois Group® began in 1977 when independent property and casualty agents in central New York saw the advantage of banding together to improve their position with, and access to, insurance carriers. “Independent agents faced many pressures and threats 
back then,” said Iroquois founder, Paul Branch, “just as they do now. We started Iroquois with the idea that independent agents could successfully join together, not just to survive but to thrive.”
The company name was well chosen since the Iroquois Confederacy, or League of Five Nations, was one of the oldest democracies in the world. Scholars believe that as early as the twelfth century, five small Indian tribes in what is now New York State – the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca – formed an association or confederacy in an attempt to stop bloodshed between the tribes and to protect themselves from larger outside threats. They would meet under the Great Tree of Peace at the geographic center of the five nations to negotiate, deliberate and plan. The Iroquois League later influenced the Founding Fathers as they developed the US Constitution.
The Iroquois Group is now comprised of over 1,800 independent Member Agents and more
than 75 national, regional and specialty Carrier-Partners. Because of the many regional differences in the insurance industry, Iroquois formed subsidiary companies -- led by a Managing Partner -- to expand beyond its New York roots. Each Managing Partner knows the best Carrier Partners to match with Member Agents in a given geography. Thus, Iroquois Mid-Atlantic serves Member Agents from Pennsylvania to Virginia; Iroquois Buckeye serves members in Ohio; Iroquois Southwest represents members in Arizona and New Mexico, etc. Click on Markets and then on the map to find the Iroquois organization near you.
