Webb Insurance Agency’s Bluffton office has relocated from 138 N. Main St. to 105 S. Main St. and is now servicing customers in its new location. The new Webb office is in the former Jordan Diller Insurance (JDI) storefront.
Stephanie Larcom is the licensed agent and manager of the Bluffton Webb office. She has been with Webb since 2000. Amber Doty, customer service agent, also in the office, has worked for Webb for three years.
As an independent insurance agency, Webb offers personal, home, auto, business, farm, life and health insurance coverage through several agencies.
Among those are Cincinnati Insurance, Auto Owners, Central Insurance, Grange, Progressive and several others. Much of its coverage area in is Allen, Hancock, Putnam and Hardin counties, according to Larcom.
Office hours in Bluffton are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. The office phone remains 419-358-4015 and a new fax number 419-229-7894.
Webb’s home office is 212 W. High St., Lima. The Lima-based company has been in the insurance business since 1906.
With Webb’s move to 105 S. Main St., it now serves customers in a location served by Bluffton insurance agents for nearly one century.
The late Richard Jordan explained those earlier connections in an interview with the Icon in 2011.
Previous to Jordan Diller Insurance was the Diller agency, which Jordan purchased in 1968. The Diller agency traced its own roots back to 1879 through a succession of previous agencies and agency acquisitions.
William Iutzi, grandfather of Sam Diller, was an independent insurance agent with an office on Main Street from 1924 to 1944. Diller’s father, Leland, and mother, Helen, took over the business in the 1940s. After Leland’s death in 1960, Helen continued to operate the business until 1968 when she sold it to Jordan.
In 2002 Jordan sold his agency's property and casualty business to Webb Insurance Agency. He retained the crop insurance portion of the business, and worked as an agent until his retirement.
