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Derek Tice · Insurance AdvisorTice Health and Life
Meet Tice Health and Life
Confidence begins with understanding the options.
Derek Tice helps individuals, families and business owners navigate public and private health-insurance markets.
With more than 26 years of entrepreneurial experience, Derek looks beyond one-size-fits-all products to find coverage that reflects a client’s real budget and lifestyle.
His transparent, multi-carrier approach simplifies a complicated decision and helps Houston’s doers and builders protect what they are working toward.
How they help
Expertise shaped around the people they serve.
Derek compares markets and carriers, explains the tradeoffs and helps clients select coverage with fewer surprises.
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Comparisons designed to protect a household without unnecessary complexity.
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Practical coverage solutions for owners, teams and self-employed professionals.
Carrier comparisons
Multiple-market review rather than a single-provider recommendation.
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Entrepreneurial guidance for professionals building an insurance practice.
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Derek understands the decisions business owners face because he has spent decades building businesses himself. His role is to cut through industry noise so clients can focus on their own success.
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