Your Operation
Whittier has built solid American hardwood furniture for three generations, every piece made in-house in Eugene and on a second continent. "My father taught us in order to make furniture that lasts, quality and craftsmanship come first," says CEO Scott Whittier. Here is how we read the operation we would be building a program around.
Solid Wood, In-House
Real American hardwoods, no MDF and no particleboard, with every operation conducted in-house for complete quality control across all phases of manufacturing. A solid-wood operation is a specific world to insure, and we know it.
A Full Catalog
Bedroom, living room, bookcases, home office, and occasional tables, across the Addison, McKenzie, Bailey, and Addi collections, sold through a nationwide wholesale dealer network and the John Greenleaf Furniture trade name. A broad, working product line.
Two Continents, One Standard
A Eugene manufacturing hub and headquarters, plus a Vietnam factory since 2006, with import and export activity layered on domestic production. A dual-continent operation carries its own coordination, and we build for it.
Three Generations
A family-owned company carrying more than a century of wood-working heritage into its third generation, still showing at High Point Market. The kind of business that deserves a program built for the long term.
Workers' Compensation
A solid-hardwood furniture operation is hands-on work: machine operation, finishing, and the daily physical work of building real furniture in-house. That is a specific Workers' Comp world, and it deserves a program built by people who understand it, not priced off a generic manufacturing template.
Woodworking, assembly, and finishing each carry their own demands on a shop floor. We build the Workers' Comp program around the way a solid-hardwood operation actually works, and place it with carriers who understand furniture manufacturers.
On a manufacturing floor, getting the payroll classified accurately is what keeps the program fair and the cost where it should be. We keep it clean and keep the experience modifier working in your favor.
A safety record is built on the floor, day by day. We bring the loss-control and claims support that protects a hands-on workforce and keeps the program defensible to the markets that price it.
The same people who carry your Workers' Comp carry your health benefits, and the two move together. We coordinate both, an integrated read that lowers cost across the lines a single-focus broker treats in isolation.
Employee Benefits Program
Your HUB team brings the full Employee Benefits practice to the table alongside the property and casualty program. For a manufacturing workforce that does physical work every day, benefits are not a separate conversation from Workers' Comp, they are part of the same picture, and we build them to work together.
Strategy & Financial Consultant, Financial Planning
For a multi-generation manufacturing company with a workforce that runs the floor, the finishing line, and the office, the employee benefits program is both a meaningful cost and a strategic lever for retention and stability. Samantha Bradley brings cost containment, funding strategy, and day-to-day execution into one coordinated approach, aligned with how your business actually runs.
Voluntary & Supplemental
Accident, critical illness, and disability products are built for a workforce that does physical work every day. They supplement Workers' Comp and health coverage, can be offered at low to no cost to the company, and give your people a financial backstop for the moments that matter most.
Retirement & Succession
Family-owned businesses in a generational transition are a natural fit for retirement plan optimization, both to retain the people who build the product and to support ownership succession. With the third generation already in the business, the timing to get the plan right is now.
Your Benefits Team
Director of Financial Analytics
Justin brings over twenty years in employee benefits to the financial analytics function. He produces the experience reporting, projections, and reserve estimates that let a company make data-driven decisions on plan design, funding strategy, and cost allocation, the analytical layer that keeps a benefits program honest year over year.
Director of Pharmacy
Matthew brings nearly a decade of specialized pharmacy benefit experience, working directly with pharmacy benefit managers, group purchasing organizations, and manufacturers. Pharmacy is one of the fastest-growing costs in any health plan, and his role is to keep that structure optimized, competitively priced, and aligned with how a workforce actually uses it.
Account Executive
Ashley manages the day-to-day client service on the benefits program, coordinating with HR on enrollment, compliance, member communications, and carrier coordination. She is the operational point of contact who keeps the program running smoothly between the strategic conversations.
Additional Coverages
Workers' Comp leads, but a solid-hardwood manufacturer with product in homes nationwide and a dual-continent supply chain needs the whole program coordinated, not placed in isolation. These are the lines we build around the core.
The Fit
Whittier has built something across three generations and more than 150 years of wood-working heritage. That deserves an insurance partner who works the same way, for the long term, in one place, with the property and casualty program and the employee benefits program built to fit together. Here is why your HUB team is that partner.
Three generations have built Whittier on craftsmanship and the long view. Your HUB team is a family-led practice that works the same way, relationships first, built to outlast a single renewal rather than reset every year.
Eugene-based and Oregon-rooted, your HUB team knows the regional market, the local carrier relationships, and what it takes to insure a solid-hardwood manufacturer here. Proximity matters for a company your size.
Workers' Comp, property, liability, auto, and the rest of the property and casualty program, coordinated as one. No gaps between separate brokers, no lines that fall through the cracks, one team accountable for all of it.
The same workforce drives your Workers' Comp and your health benefits, and the two are connected. Your HUB team builds them in coordination, an integrated read across both that a single-line broker cannot offer.
HUB's national markets and specialty depth, delivered by a local team that answers the phone. The reach of a national broker with the service of people who know your name.
Your Team
The people who build and run your program. A family-led team with the depth of a national broker behind it.
SVP, Commercial Lines
Associate Advisor, Commercial Lines
Associate Advisor, Commercial Lines
Private Client Risk Advisor
Private Client Risk Advisor
Vice President, Workers' Compensation
Workers' Compensation Claims Analyst
Insurance Adjuster
Client Services Advisor
CL Sr. Account Manager
CL Account Manager II
CL Account Manager II
CL Account Manager II
Sr. Risk Management Consultant
CL Account Manager
CL Account Manager
Bring us the operation as it actually runs: the Eugene floor, the Vietnam factory, the dealer network, and the people who build the product. We will show you what a coordinated property, casualty, and benefits program looks like across all of it, built by people who know Oregon manufacturers. Reach out to start the conversation with your HUB team.
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