Family ties strong as daughter moves to top of firm

With a bigger appetite for risk, Taylor Collins takes over a stalwart area insurance business her father, JIm Tollerton, founded.


  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 6:00 a.m. May 3, 2019
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Lori Sax. Jim Tollerton recently sold ownership of the firm he founded, Professional Benefits, to his daughter, Taylor Collins.
Lori Sax. Jim Tollerton recently sold ownership of the firm he founded, Professional Benefits, to his daughter, Taylor Collins.
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Taylor Collins wasn’t totally sure she wanted to follow her dad, Jim Tollerton, into the insurance industry, despite majoring in it in college.  

Then she interned for the esteemed Lloyd’s of London, and she was hooked. Collins worked on kidnapping/ransom insurance for celebrities, among other high-risk insurance cases. “It was fun to see the insurance business on the inside,” says Collins, who like her dad, graduated from Florida State University.  

 

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