An independent insurance agency,
built quietly, in Scottsdale.
Sullivan James was founded in Scottsdale, Arizona in 2016. The agency shops multiple carriers across personal, commercial, and private-client lines. The work is deliberate. The schedule stays small. The deliverable is a signed letter, not a sales pitch.
One agency. Three specialties.
Sullivan James is an independent insurance agency — not owned by, contracted to, or beholden to any single carrier. We are appointed with more than thirty.
The work runs across three lines: Personal coverage for Scottsdale and Valley families; Commercial coverage for the AZ businesses they run; and a Private Client tier for $2M+ homes, scheduled collections, and the wealth advisors who steward them.
The flagship product is the Coverage Audit — a line-by-line review of a current policy. Findings within 48 hours, with the signed letter on Sullivan James stationery following by mail within five business days.
- Founded
- 2016
- Headquartered
- Scottsdale, Arizona
- Carrier panel
- Independent appointments
- Specialties
- Personal · Commercial · Private Client
- Turnaround
- Findings in 48 hrs · letter in 5 business days
- Reviews
- 5★ on Google · 42 verified
More than a name.
A tribute to the family that shaped us.
Sullivan James is a tribute to the family who taught this agency what mattered: to be honest, to be precise, and to do the right thing—even when no one is watching. The full story is below.
Three things, taught at the kitchen table.
Be honest.
If a client doesn't need more coverage, we say so. If we can't beat their current carrier, we say that too.
Be precise.
Insurance is a language. Coverage forms, endorsements, exclusions. We read every line of every policy. So our clients don't have to.
Do the right thing.
Even when no one is watching. Especially then. It is the only reason this name is still on the door.
Why their name is on the door.
Sullivan James Insurance.
Scottsdale, Arizona.
Sullivan James Insurance opened in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2016. The desk that answers your call and the audits that arrive in your mailbox are the agents' work, start to finish — because they share the values this agency was built on, and because work like this deserves people whose full attention is on it.
The name on the building belongs to Melvin Sullivan and Doris James, married in 1937, who raised the family this agency came from. They were not insurance people. He built things with his hands. She ran the household and the books that kept it. They taught their children, who taught the generation after, three things about money and people: to be honest, to be precise, and to do the right thing even when no one is watching.
Those are the values this agency wanted on the door — and the values it wants every agent to walk into every morning. So it borrowed the names that taught them. Sullivan from him. James from her maiden name. The agents carry it from there.
That's the work they would have understood. It is, in every sense that matters, why their name is on the door.
— Sullivan James Insurance
Scottsdale, Arizona · Est. 2016
Two dates worth knowing.
Sullivan James Insurance is founded in Scottsdale. Independent. Carrier-agnostic. Named for the family whose values built it.
Sullivan James launches the Private Client tier and the Advisor Partnership program — built for the high-net-worth families and wealth advisors of the Valley.
Want us to look it over?
Send Sullivan James a current declarations page. Within 48 hours we'll tell you what we found; the signed letter follows by mail.
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