2013 40 Under 40: Mike Taylor
West Region Reprints
Vice president and co-owner
Taylor-Leavitt Insurance Agency Inc.
Age: 37
Mike Taylor's expertise in workplace safety has not been built solely on his 10 years of experience in the workers compensation insurance brokerage business.
In 2010, Mr. Taylor assumed co-ownership of the Cedar City, Utah-based Leavitt Group's branches in Bozeman, Billings and Livingston, Mont., which today make up the Taylor-Leavitt Insurance Agency Inc.
Mr. Taylor said his role as a co-owner of the agency has provided him with an invaluable first-person perspective about many of the same risks and exposures facing his clients, including workplace safety.
“My conversations with clients now are a lot different than they were five years ago,” Mr. Taylor said.
“Now that I've been in their shoes, running a business myself, we talk about sharing a lot of the same frustrations and how we go about overcoming them,” he said.
Consistently ranked within the Leavitt Group's top 10 producers nationwide, Mr. Taylor has developed a reputation among his clients for his thorough, innovative approach to risk mitigation, including simulated safety inspections and operational analyses.
“Mike's been very hands-on in trying to help lower premiums and increase safety as far as our workers comp risks go,” Brian Cook, co-owner of Billings-based accounting firm Walborn, Fagan & Cook P.C. “He's brought specialists out to our different locations to film the activities, and he's also come up with a number of plans to improve safety.”
