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Texas Insurance Brokers was incorporated in 1981. It is an independent life insurance agency and was designed to provide a quick and convenient way to provide life insurance protection for one's loved ones.

Our Way of Doing Business

By filling out the forms on this website, Texas Insurance Brokers will do a computer search of the market to find competitive products for the amount you wish to buy. We will provide you proposals on several different policies from different insurance companies for you to review. These proposals will be mailed to you so that you may review them in the privacy of your own home without an agent present. Should you have questions, call (713) 686-5433, or if you reside outside of Houston, call our toll-free number, 1-800-543-3289, to speak to an agent who will answer your questions and explain the policy options.

Our President

Joe David Assad was born in Corpus Christi, Texas on July 11, 1943 to Jim and Mary Assad. His paternal grandparents emigrated to the United States in 1903 from Beruit, Lebanon. Joe's father, Jim, was born in El Paso, Texas. His mother, Mary Frances Burleson, is a descendent of the Burleson family who moved to Texas from Tennessee in 1834 before Texas won her independence from Mexico.

Joe graduated from Mary Carroll High School in Corpus Christi in 1961 and moved to Houston where he attended South Texas Jr. College.

Joe entered the life insurance business in 1970 with the John L Skalla Agency of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. In 1977, he formed his own independent  life insurance agency which became Texas Insurance Brokers, Inc. in 1981.

In 1979, Joe married Deborah Kay Willis, a Houston native and a graduate of John H. Reagan High School and Texas A&M University. They have two daughters, Katie and Betsy, and one grandson, Brenden Dade Moseley. 

Professional Organizations:
     Houston Association of Life Underwriters
     Texas Association of Life Underwriters
     National Association of Life Underwriters
     Million Dollar Round Table - Life Member (24 years qualifying)
     Top of the Table - 7 years
     Twenty Five Million Dollar Forum - 8 years
     Association for Advanced Life Underwriting - 5 years

Other Organizations:
     Rotary Club of Houston
          Board of Directors - 1992-94
     International Texas Longhorn Association - Founding Member
     International Texas Longhorn Association - Board of Directors 2000
     International Texas Longhorn Association - HOUSTON CHAPTER
          President 1992-93; 1996-97
     Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo - Life Member and has served on
          the Membership and International Committees

Joe's main recreation is raising Texas Longhorn cattle at his KAT-EL Ranch in Washington County. He sold the top selling Texas Longhorn at the 1994 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Joe also enjoys skiing and chess.

His brothers, Jim Jr. and John, and his mother, Mary, also reside in Houston.

Joe is a member of First Baptist Church - Houston.