We take a proactive approach to risk through customized platforms and programs


Venbrook Specialty Services, LLC (VSS) is our wholesale brokerage and specialty managing general agency. VSS provides an array of wholesale brokerage services and specialty programs with exceptional reach.

We architect, market, and sell specialized insurance programs, affinity programs, general underwriting management, and captive management to retail insurance agencies, brokerages, associations, and industry groups.

Wholesale Brokerage & Managing General Agency

Venbrook Specialty Services, LLC comprises an experienced team of risk managers, underwriters, insurance brokers, and strategic advisors throughout the country. We specialize in developing, brokering, and delivering innovative niche specialty solutions to carriers, MGAs, producers and their insured that reduce the overall cost of risk.

Our Services:

  • National Market Access
  • Program Design & Specialization
  • Industry and Market Knowledge
  • Highest Professional Standards
  • Prudent Underwriting Guidelines
  • Claims Management
  • Safety & Loss Control

Wholesale Brokerage


Brooks Insurance Agency has served the marketplace as a nationally recognized wholesale agency for over 25 years. Brooks continues to broaden its reach to include standard markets, specialty lines, and distressed lines of business.

Brooks' experience as a true excess and surplus lines wholesaler results in meaningful company relationships within the specialty marketplace to accommodate your coverage needs, on both an admitted and non-admitted basis. 

As an independent wholesaler, Brooks maintains significant market relationships, enabling a preferred partner status that allows us to remain in lockstep with the latest in the marketplace.

Brooks is committed and works every day to deliver efficiently, timely, and with a discerning eye toward profitability for our partners.

Managing General Agency


Cardigan General Insurance Services, LLC is a managing general agency offering creative solutions for property, casualty, transportation, and specialty insurance programs.

Cardigan maintains an operational and underwriting prowess that allows it to stay in step with a rapidly changing marketplace and risk environment. It also manages disciplines in program and product development, branding, analytics, and third party program management.

We rely on debt underwriting and a commitment to analytics to provide comprehensive programs to the marketplace. We value partnerships with the carrier and insured alike.

Specialty Programs:

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • Commercial Auto
  • Sports and Fitness
  • Real Estate Owned (REO) Property