History
Mac Parrott entered the insurance business in 1979. In 1981 he opened his own agency in Lexington specializing in wealth creation and preservation. Beth joined the business in 1990 to develop the employee and individual benefits markets. Today, we are a full-service agency offering a complete array of insurance products, as well as strategic financial planning for thousands of individual consumers and hundreds of businesses of all sizes.
Parrott Insurance & Benefits Commitment To Service We are dedicated to helping you provide a secure future for yourself, your family and your business. To accomplish this, we stay abreast of developments in our own industry, encourage innovation and offer a wide variety of both insurance and financial planning options.
One of our most innovative and successful approaches is our ability to integrate your benefits and investment strategies into a single, comprehensive solution that will help you more effectively increase and secure the value of your assets.
Experience and expertise are important to the kind of service we want to provide, but treating you as an individual is essential. Whether you are a consumer or a business customer, we are here to help. As a matter of fact, many of our small business clients who don’t have a Human Resources staff, have come to think of us as their own in-house HR department.
Staff
Mac Parrott, ChFC, CLU
Mac is an original founder of Parrott Insurance & Benefits. He earned a BA in business from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1977 and is also a licensed securities representative. He specializes in life insurance solutions and investments for the individual, pension plans, and the overall management of our firm.
Beth Parrott, RHU
Beth is also an original founder of our company and a 1977 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is responsible for maintaining and implementing strategies to support Parrott Insurance & Benefit's mission. Beth is a Registered Health Underwriter and works with a number of our business clients as well.
Richard Crews
Richard is our primary group sales person. A 1994 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Richard is responsible for offering employee benefit solutions to businesses group insurance products. He is also responsible for providing alternative solutions to our clients at renewal.
Donald Parrott
Donald is a 1965 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a BS degree in business administration with a specialty in insurance. He is an expert in both group benefits and individual products, including investments, medical and life and long-term care insurance.
Lynette Anderson
Lynette earned a BS degree in Business Administration and Management from High Point University in 1995. She has been with Parrott Insurance since September 2001. Her main role today is to provide administrative support in our Investment Department. She specializes in sales and service for Individual Life, Disability, and Long Term Care. She also assists the Employee Benefit Division with billing, claim issues, and audits.
Nora Anderson
As our Employee Benefits Specialist, Nora is the first point-of-contact for our group clients. Nora personally handles employee enrollment and education for clients who do not have their own HR staff. She also works with our clients during the renewal process, obtaining quotes and making plan selections to meet an individual group’s needs. Nora is responsible for complex claims and billing issues.
Doris Curry
Doris has been with the company since September 1997. As our Processing Specialist, responsible for all claims, pharmacy issues, billing and enrollments, she is central to our success and to our customers’ satisfaction. She is also responsible for the maintenance of our computer systems.
Teresa Penninger
Specializing in Individual Health, Medicare Supplement and Medicare Prescription Part D products and sales, Teresa assists both individual customers and employee groups with billing, enrollment and claims issues. She puts her previous experience as a Hospital Admitting Manager to good use as a strong and well-informed advocate for her customers with the insurance companies and their providers.
Judy Nance
Judy is Individual Sales Administrator. With over 30 years of experience in the insurance field and 35 years in customer service, it’s a position for which she is well qualified. Judy assists with individual quotes, sales and claims issues, and provides support to the sales staff.
Kenda Strickland
Kenda is a 1993 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her primary role is to assist in the renewal process, providing support for Employee Education and Renewal Meetings, Plan Design Implementation and Enrollment Processing. Kenda is also the main point-of-contact for our Small Groups, assisting employees and administrators with claims, enrollment and billing issues.
Elizabeth Shive
Elizabeth Shive joined Parrott Insurance and Benefits as Director of Marketing and Design in Spring 2008. She is responsible for planning and implementing the company's communications and marketing programs.
Elizabeth graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2002. She lives in Durham with her husband, Daniel, and their son, Mac.
Sue Robbins
Sue works part time and is responsible for organization of our office materials. She also offers support to all our departments with various customer service related duties. She retired from Davidson County School’s as a teacher and media assistant
