A.R.M. Insurance Agency 

A.R.M. Insurance Agency is a Texas corporation, wholly owned by Mary A. Rodriguez  RHU, LUTCF and her husband, Jerry F. Mathis CLU, ChFC, LUTCF. Mary and Jerry have each been in the insurance business for over 20 years and have built an industry leading employee benefits agency, the M A R Financial Group.

A.R.M. was founded on the same principal that has made its older sister so successful, "our customers deserve the highest level of service at all times during our relationship."  At  A.R.M. Insurance, you may rest assured that you will recieve superior advice from our professional staff and competetive rates from top rated insurance carriers.

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Texas Department of Insurance

The agency that requlates the insurance business in Texas, Lots of valuable information for insurance buyers

A.M. Best Company

Find financial ratings and other information on insurance companies (registration on the site is free)

The Entrepreneurship  Institute

Provides a wealth of information for the small business owner also podcasts of the keynote speeches from The President's Forum meetings from around the country

M A R Financial Group  

Our Life and Health sister agency's site. Visit here for information about group insurance benefits for your company or for individual insurance solutions for you and your family. (Coming soon--on line quoting}

Mary A. Rodriguez LUTCF, RHU

Mary Rodriguez is a native of San Antonio and a 1973 graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School. She earned her Baccalaureate degree in Music Education from St. Mary’s University in 1976. From 1977 until 1984, Mary taught music in San Antonio area parochial schools. In 1984 she became manager of band instruments for Caldwell Music, a position which involved her directly in retail sales of musical equipment and accessories to school districts and to the general public.

Mary began her career in the financial services industry in1985 when she joined the San Antonio agency of Principal Mutual Life as a career agent. Over the next few years, Mary’s practice became more focused in the areas of disability income and health insurance.

In 1990, after five years as a career agent with Principal, Mary joined with her husband, Jerry Mathis to open an independent insurance agency, M.A.R. Financial Group.

Mary was installed as a Fellow of the Life Underwriters Training Council in 1990, and she has been a frequent moderator for the LUTC education program, teaching the disability income and business insurance courses. She earned the Registered Health Underwriter’s designation in 1995. She is currently involved in studies leading to the designation of Registered Employee Benefit Consultant.

Mary is an active member of the National, Texas, and San Antonio Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, serving as a member of the professional development and continuing education committees. In 1999 she was elected to a two-year term as Director for the Association for Health Insurance Advisors, a focus group of NAIFA. In 2006 she was elected President of NAIFA-San Antonio. She is also an active member of the National, Texas, and San Antonio Association of Health Underwriters.

Mary is a frequent public speaker before civic groups on the topic of insurance and risk management, and she has lectured on business insurance concerns for SCORE. Mary holds the position of associate professor at St. Phillips College where she has served the college and the small business incubator program as insurance resource person.

Mary has authored articles on Disability Insurance and Medical Insurance which have been printed in the San Antonio Business Journal, as well as several national publications. She has been frequently quoted as an expert on Health and Disability insurance in the San Antonio Express News and other periodicals.

Jerry F. Mathis CLU, ChFC, LUTCF

Jerry Mathis has been a resident of San Antonio since 1978. He entered the financial services industry in 1983 after a successful career in the automotive aftermarket. During his first two years in the insurance business, Jerry qualified for the Frost Bank Rookie of the Year Award, The Bankers Life Presidents Early Achievement Award, Bankers Life Premier Club and Century Club. He also qualified for the Million Dollar Round Table, the National Sales Achievement award, the National Quality Award, and the Texas Leaders Round Table.

In 1985, Jerry accepted a position as unit supervisor for the Bankers Life of Des Moines, Iowa. For the next two years he was responsible for recruiting and training new sales associates for the company. He returned to personal production in 1987, while continuing to work with agents as an advanced underwriting consultant.

Jerry earned the Chartered Life Underwriter designation from the American College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1986 and the Chartered Financial Consultant designation from the same institution in1988. Since 1991 He has been an active member of the San Antonio Chapter of Financial Service Professionals, and has held several executive positions with that organization, most recently Director of Programs 2000-2001. In 1991 he earned the LUTCF designation from the Life Underwriters Training Council in Bethesda, Maryland.

. He has been a frequent moderator for the LUTC program, teaching business insurance, personal insurance, advanced business planning, estate planning, and personal retirement planning. Jerry served three years on the national textbook review committee for the advanced sales series of courses for LUTC. From 1994 to 1997, he served as chairman of the LUTC program for the San Antonio Association of Insurance and Financial Advisers.

From 1997 through 2003, Jerry served the San Antonio chapter of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors as a Director, Officer, President, and as Immediate Past President for the year 2003-2004. In January, 2006, Jerry was inducted into the NAIFA-San Antonio “Hall of Fame” an honor bestowed on only 17 other individuals in the 76 year history of the organization.

In August of 1990, Jerry co-founded the M.A.R. Financial Group, and today serves as life and retirement plans development manager for that firm.

Jerry speaks regularly to industry groups on the topic of changing trends in insurance marketing. Jerry has authored numerous articles for the trade press and general interest publications on the topics of managing a successful insurance agency, changing markets for insurance, and others. In addition, Jerry has registered M.A.R. Financial Group as an authorized provider of continuing education courses to insurance agents throughout Texas

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