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Your Clients. Their Wealth.
Our Expertise.

Your Clients.
Their Wealth.
Our Expertise.

We partner with financial advisors to help protect high-net-worth clients through sophisticated insurance strategies designed to complement financial planning, preserve wealth, and strengthen long-term relationships. Led by Private Client Advisor Warner Hotchkiss, our team helps advisors address complex risks associated with significant wealth — from liquidity events and concentrated assets to luxury properties, evolving lifestyles, and other unique exposures.

We partner with financial advisors to help protect high-net-worth clients through sophisticated insurance strategies designed to complement financial planning, preserve wealth, and strengthen long-term relationships. Led by Private Client Advisor Warner Hotchkiss, our team helps advisors address complex risks associated with significant wealth — from liquidity events and concentrated assets to luxury properties, evolving lifestyles, and other unique exposures.

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Overview

Helping Financial Advisors Protect More Than Portfolios

Your clients trust you to help them build, preserve, and transfer wealth with confidence. While investment management, estate planning, and tax strategies are critical components of that process, insurance is often the foundation that protects everything else. Without the right coverage, even the most sophisticated financial plan can be impacted by an unexpected loss.

At Wheeler & Taylor Private Client Group, we partner with financial advisors throughout the Northeast to help protect high-net-worth individuals and families with customized insurance strategies designed around their unique assets, lifestyle, and long-term financial goals. Rather than approaching insurance as a standalone transaction, we view it as an integral component of a comprehensive wealth management strategy.

Led by Private Client Advisor Warner Hotchkiss, our role is to complement the work you already do by identifying exposures that may otherwise go unnoticed, evaluating existing insurance programs, and developing solutions that align with your clients’ broader financial objectives. The financial lives of affluent individuals and families can change quickly. A business owner may experience a successful sale or liquidity event, an executive may accumulate significant equity compensation, or a family may acquire additional residences, collections, or other high-value assets. These moments of financial growth can create new exposures that traditional insurance programs may not adequately address.

Working together allows you to provide an even higher level of service while giving your clients access to specialized Private Client insurance expertise backed by one of the nation’s most respected independent insurance agencies. Warner works alongside you as a trusted insurance resource, helping ensure that the assets your clients have worked to build are properly protected as their wealth, lifestyle, and financial priorities evolve.

Financial advisor meeting with affluent clients in a luxury California setting to discuss wealth planning and risk management strategies

Risk Management Expertise

An Extension of Your Advisory Team

Exceptional client relationships are built on trust, expertise, and collaboration. That’s why our approach is centered on becoming a seamless extension of your advisory practice—not simply another insurance resource.

Warner Hotchkiss works alongside financial advisors to provide specialized private client insurance guidance that complements the broader financial planning process. Whether participating in client conversations, reviewing an existing insurance program, identifying potential exposures, or providing recommendations behind the scenes, Warner’s goal is to help you deliver a more comprehensive level of service while strengthening the trust you have already established with your clients.

As affluent individuals and families build and transition wealth, their insurance needs can become increasingly complex. A client may purchase a second home, acquire valuable collections, receive significant equity compensation, sell a business, or experience a major change in their financial circumstances. These milestones can create new risks—and traditional insurance programs may not always keep pace.

For high-net-worth clients throughout the Northeast and beyond, Warner helps identify and address exposures involving luxury residences, multiple properties, significant personal assets, concentrated wealth, valuable collections, excess liability, and evolving lifestyle needs. His private client approach is designed to provide the depth of analysis and personalized attention that complex risks require.

By working together, financial advisors can remain focused on helping clients build and manage their wealth while knowing their personal risk management is receiving the same level of attention and expertise. Warner serves as a trusted insurance resource you can bring into the relationship when specialized guidance is needed — helping protect not only what your clients have built, but the financial plans and relationships built around it.

High-Net-Worth Expertise

Specialized insurance strategies designed for affluent individuals, families, executives, and business owners.

Collaborative Planning

We work alongside financial advisors to integrate risk management into each client's broader financial strategy.

Proactive Risk Management

Identifying coverage gaps and emerging exposures before they become challenges for your clients.

Long-Term Protection

Ongoing policy reviews and proactive risk assessments that evolve as your clients' wealth and lifestyle change.

Custom Homes

Specialized Coverage Needs

Waterfront Exposure

Specialized Coverage Needs

Multiple Properties

Coordinated Protection Strategies

Your Private Client Insurance Partner

Warner Hotchkiss

Warner Hotchkiss works with financial advisors to identify potential insurance exposures, evaluate existing coverage, and develop personalized insurance strategies that complement broader wealth management goals. His role is to provide advisors with a trusted resource for complex personal risk management while helping ensure their clients’ insurance programs evolve alongside their wealth, assets, and lifestyle.

National Strength.
Private Client Attention.

Why Financial Advisors Partner
With Warner Hotchkiss

Choosing the right Private Client insurance partner is about more than securing coverage— it’s about protecting the relationships you’ve built and ensuring your clients receive the same level of personalized service and attention they expect from you. The right partnership should complement your advisory practice while providing specialized guidance for complex personal risk.

At Wheeler & Taylor Private Client Group, Warner Hotchkiss works alongside financial advisors as an extension of their team, helping identify potential insurance exposures, evaluate existing coverage, and develop customized risk management strategies for affluent clients. By bringing a dedicated Private Client insurance resource into the relationship, advisors can address personal risk as an important component of their clients’ broader financial picture.

Our Private Client Group specializes in serving high-net-worth individuals and families with sophisticated insurance needs. From luxury residences and vacation homes to valuable collections, personal liability, and multi-generational wealth, we develop comprehensive insurance strategies designed to complement broader financial, estate, and legacy planning objectives.

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Tailored Guidance​

Top Carrier Access​

Concierge-Level Service

Concierge-Level Service​

By partnering with Wheeler & Taylor, financial advisors gain access to a dedicated Private Client team with the experience, resources, and market relationships to support even the most complex personal insurance needs. Our collaborative approach allows you to deliver a more comprehensive client experience while reinforcing your role as a trusted advisor and helping protect the wealth your clients have worked so hard to build.

Big Enough To Help, Small Enough To Care

As a boutique specialist, our relationships are built on accessibility, trust, and a hands-on approach that makes every client feel like a priority - not a policy number. Backed by the strength and resources of one of the nation’s 100 largest P&C insurance agencies, Wheeler & Taylor delivers the market access, expertise and tailored solutions to meet the unique needs of every client engagement.* While our proven expertise, capabilities, and market reach set us apart, our hometown service approach and consistent dedication to our clients defines the Wheeler & Taylor experience.​

Specialized Expertise

Our team brings deep industry-specific knowledge across a wide range of risk profiles. We apply that expertise to design tailored solutions that address complex exposures with precision and confidence.

Concierge-Level Service

At Wheeler & Taylor, concierge-level service means more than responsiveness — it means having a trusted team that is proactive, accessible, and fully invested in your success. We provide high-touch support with dedicated professionals available whenever you need guidance. Whether navigating an urgent claim, managing evolving risks, or addressing day-to-day servicing support, our team is always accessible to respond quickly and guide you through every step.

Long-Term Partnership Approach

We prioritize relationships over transactions by building long-term partnerships with our clients. As your needs evolve, we stay aligned with you by adapting coverage and strategy to support your growth over time.

*Based on data compiled by Insurance Journal. W&T does not publicly disclose its financial information and is therefore not included in the official rankings.

Why Warner Hotchkiss

Protecting Legacies, Preserving Futures

Choosing the right Private Client insurance partner is about more than securing coverage— it’s about protecting the relationships you’ve built and ensuring your clients receive the same level of personalized service and attention they expect from you. The right partnership should complement your advisory practice while providing specialized guidance for complex personal risk.

At Wheeler & Taylor Private Client Group, Warner Hotchkiss works alongside financial advisors as an extension of their team, helping identify potential insurance exposures, evaluate existing coverage, and develop customized risk management strategies for affluent clients. By bringing a dedicated Private Client insurance resource into the relationship, advisors can address personal risk as an important component of their clients’ broader financial picture.

Our Private Client Group specializes in serving high-net-worth individuals and families with sophisticated insurance needs. From luxury residences and vacation homes to valuable collections, personal liability, and multi-generational wealth, we develop comprehensive insurance strategies designed to complement broader financial, estate, and legacy planning objectives.

Big Enough To Help.
Small Enough To Care.

As a boutique specialist, our relationships are built on accessibility, trust, and a hands-on approach that makes every client feel like a priority — not a policy number. Backed by the strength and resources of one of the nation’s 100 largest P&C insurance agencies, Wheeler & Taylor delivers the market access, expertise and tailored solutions to meet the unique needs of every client engagement.* While our proven expertise, capabilities, and market reach set us apart, our hometown service approach and consistent dedication to our clients defines the Wheeler & Taylor experience.

Specialized Expertise

Our team brings deep industry-specific knowledge across a wide range of risk profiles. We apply that expertise to design tailored solutions that address complex exposures with precision and confidence.

Concierge-Level Service

At Wheeler & Taylor, concierge-level service means more than responsiveness — it means having a trusted team that is proactive, accessible, and fully invested in your success. We provide high-touch support with dedicated professionals available whenever you need guidance. Whether navigating an urgent claim, managing evolving risks, or addressing day-to-day servicing support, our team is always accessible to respond quickly and guide you through every step.

Long-Term Partnership Approach

We prioritize relationships over transactions by building long-term partnerships with our clients. As your needs evolve, we stay aligned with you by adapting coverage and strategy to support your growth over time.

*Based on data compiled by Insurance Journal. W&T does not publicly disclose its financial information and is therefore not included in the official rankings.

Common Private Client Insurance Gaps Among California's Affluent Families

Why High-Net-Worth Clients Require a More Strategic Insurance Approach

Affluent clients often have insurance programs that no longer reflect the complexity of their assets, lifestyle, and financial position. As wealth grows, traditional insurance solutions may leave important exposures unaddressed. A comprehensive Private Client review helps identify potential gaps and ensures insurance strategies evolve alongside your clients’ financial goals.

California Catastrophe Exposure

California’s unique geography creates specialized risks for affluent homeowners and property owners. Wildfire, earthquake, coastal exposures, mudslide risks, and rising construction costs can create significant coverage challenges.

Property Valuation Drift

Luxury residences, custom homes, and unique properties often require specialized valuation strategies to ensure coverage reflects current rebuilding costs and market conditions.

Liability Exposure

As clients accumulate wealth, personal liability risks increase. Appropriate umbrella protection and customized liability strategies help safeguard assets, income, and future wealth.

Complex Property Ownership

Many affluent California clients maintain primary residences along the coast, second homes in resort markets, and additional properties across multiple states, requiring a unified approach to valuation, liability, and catastrophe exposure.

Valuable Assets & Collections

Fine art, jewelry, collectibles, wine collections, and other high-value possessions often require specialized coverage beyond standard policy limits.

Lifestyle & Emerging Risks

Cyber exposure, domestic employees, watercraft, private aviation, executive lifestyles, and other emerging risks require thoughtful planning and specialized solutions. High-net-worth California households may also face additional considerations related to household staff, privacy concerns, travel, and complex personal assets.

Integrated Risk Management

Home, automobile, umbrella, cyber, valuables, and specialty coverages should work together as part of a coordinated wealth protection strategy.

Wealth Transition & Newly Acquired Assets

Significant wealth events can create new insurance exposures that are often overlooked. Business exits, liquidity events, inherited wealth, executive compensation, and major asset acquisitions can quickly change a client’s risk profile.

A structured review ensures coverage evolves with real asset and exposure conditions.

Is Your Client’s Insurance Strategy Keeping Pace With Their Wealth?

Many high-net-worth individuals discover insurance gaps only after a significant loss occurs. A proactive Private Client review can help identify potential coverage limitations, outdated valuations, and evolving risks before they impact your client’s financial plan.

Our Private Client advisors work collaboratively with financial advisors to evaluate existing insurance programs, identify opportunities for improvement, and develop customized protection strategies designed around each client’s assets, lifestyle, and long-term objectives.

Assess Your Private Client Risk Exposure

Private Client Insurance Solutions

We design coverage strategies around the full spectrum of high-net-worth personal and lifestyle exposures, including the unique property, liability, and catastrophe risks faced by affluent California families.

Luxury Homes & Estates

Primary & Secondary Residences

High-Value Automotive Collections

Private Aviation Exposure

Marine & Coastal Vessel Coverage

Excess Liability & Umbrella Structuring

Private collection featuring fine art, luxury watches, jewelry, antiques, and collectibles displayed in an elegant gallery setting.

Valuable Assets & Collections Protection

Personal Cyber Risk Protection

Global Travel & Lifestyle Risk Coverage

Luxury California home affected by flooding and earthquake damage requiring specialized private client insurance protection.

Flood & Earthquake

Professional household staff supporting operations at a luxury residence insured through private client coverage solutions.

Domestic Staff Liability

Private client advisors collaborating with family office professionals and wealth advisors on integrated risk management strategies.

Family Office Coordination

Luxury residences located across multiple states requiring coordinated private client insurance strategies.

Multi-State Property Portfolios

Our Process

Comprehensive Risk Management. Customized Solutions.

Comprehensive Coordination.
Strategic Oversight.

We operate as a private client insurance advisor — working across carriers, markets, and specialty programs to align coverage architecture with the actual risk profile of the property and its ownership structure. The result is a coordinated insurance position designed to respond cleanly in high-severity scenarios, not just pass underwriting review.

Discovery & Strategy

We start by identifying and understanding your unique exposures, coverage needs, and individual expectations. We will then work with you and your advisors to craft a customized insurance program that balances coverage, value, and your priorities.

Execution & Optimization

Market Execution & Placement

Development of a tailored coverage program is the hallmark of the customization and placement phase of your client experience. A complete canvassing of the market ensures that we secure the most favorable terms, conditions and pricing — all designed to exceed your expectations.

Oversight & Adaptation​

Ongoing Stewardship

We continuously monitor your insurance program through regular coverage evaluations, while proactively evaluating the marketplace for superior placement options.

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LIFESTYLE & ASSET PROTECTION

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YOUR PRIVATE CLIENT ADVISOR

Warner Hotchkiss

Warner Hotchkiss works with affluent individuals and families to help address the personal insurance risks that can accompany significant wealth, complex assets, and evolving lifestyles. His approach is centered on understanding each client’s circumstances, providing thoughtful guidance, and developing insurance solutions tailored to their individual needs.

Warner also works closely with financial advisors and other trusted professionals to help make personal risk management a coordinated part of the client’s broader financial strategy. By collaborating with the professionals who know their clients best, he helps identify potential exposures, evaluate existing coverage, and provide specialized Private Client insurance guidance when it is needed.

For financial advisors, Warner serves as a dedicated insurance resource they can bring into the relationship with confidence—helping address complex personal insurance needs while supporting the trusted relationships advisors have built with their clients.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

Insights for advisors navigating complex insurance needs for affluent California clients.

Insurance plays an important role in protecting wealth, yet it is often overlooked in broader financial planning conversations. A private client insurance advisor helps identify personal risk exposures, coverage gaps, and opportunities to protect the assets and lifestyle clients have built.

A comprehensive insurance strategy helps protect accumulated wealth by addressing risks that could impact a client’s financial plan. This may include high-value residences, excess liability exposure, valuable assets, multiple properties, and evolving lifestyle needs.

Advisors often benefit from involving an insurance specialist when clients purchase significant assets, experience major life changes, acquire additional properties, build wealth, receive an inheritance, or require more sophisticated risk management solutions.

High-net-worth clients often have complex insurance needs that go beyond standard personal insurance. Multiple residences, luxury properties, valuable collections, significant personal assets, domestic staff, unique lifestyle exposures, and substantial liability risks can all require specialized attention. A tailored Private Client approach helps ensure insurance coverage evolves alongside the client’s wealth, assets, and financial goals.

Wheeler & Taylor works alongside financial advisors as an extension of their team. We provide specialized insurance guidance, participate in client conversations when helpful, and deliver proactive recommendations that support the advisor’s broader wealth management strategy.

Common gaps include outdated coverage limits, insufficient liability protection, underinsured properties, overlooked valuable assets, and policies that no longer align with a client’s current wealth, lifestyle, or financial goals.

As clients accumulate assets, their insurance needs often become more complex. A private client review helps identify emerging risks and ensures insurance strategies evolve alongside their financial plan.

Yes. Many affluent clients own multiple residences, investment properties, valuable collections, and other significant assets. A coordinated private client strategy helps simplify coverage while addressing the unique risks associated with complex wealth.

Private client insurance goes beyond standard coverage by focusing on personalized advice, proactive risk management, higher service expectations, and solutions designed around the client’s overall financial profile.

Wheeler & Taylor Private Client Group provides financial advisors with a trusted insurance partner focused on protecting client wealth, strengthening relationships, and delivering personalized risk management guidance. Our team works collaboratively with advisors, attorneys, and other trusted professionals to identify complex exposures and develop insurance strategies that complement each client’s broader financial plan.

A private client insurance review provides an opportunity to evaluate existing coverage, identify potential gaps, and ensure insurance decisions align with the client’s broader goals for wealth preservation and lifestyle protection.

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NYC PROPERTY INSURANCE INSIGHTS

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Luxury New York City cooperative apartment representing co-op insurance and ownership risks

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CONDO LIABILITY EXPOSURE

Master policy structure, unit owner responsibility, and loss assessment risk in NYC condominiums.

Luxury New York City condominium representing liability and insurance considerations for condo owners

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Coverage Designed Around Wealth, Assets, and Lifestyle

We combine the capabilities of a nationally recognized independent insurance agency with the attention, access, and responsiveness of a boutique advisory practice. Our Private Client Group helps financial advisors address complex risks associated with luxury properties, concentrated wealth, lifestyle assets, and other exposures that can accompany significant wealth. Through a coordinated risk management approach, we work alongside advisors to help ensure their clients' insurance strategies complement their broader financial goals.

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