Berkley Surety
Katelyn Laing has extensive work experience in the surety industry. Katelyn is currently a member of the Financial Planning Committee at Women in Surety (WIS) since July 2023. Prior to this, Katelyn worked at Berkley Surety (a Berkley Company) from June 2016 to March 2023, where they held various roles including Assistant Vice President - Underwriting Manager - Commercial and Underwriting Manager - Commercial. Katelyn also worked as a Senior Commercial Surety Underwriter at Berkley Surety from June 2016 to June 2021. Before joining Berkley Surety, Katelyn worked at Chubb from September 2012 to May 2016, where they held roles such as Senior Commercial Surety Underwriter and Surety Underwriter Trainee. Throughout their career, Katelyn has gained experience in underwriting, managing, and servicing commercial surety portfolios, evaluating financial conditions and risk exposures, and utilizing tools and software to meet underwriting principles and ideals.
Katelyn Laing attended the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 2008 to 2012. During this time, they obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, with a minor in Psychology.
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Berkley Surety
BERKLEY SURETY is a highly professional, service-oriented surety underwriting management company, providing a full spectrum of bonds for contract, environmental, and commercial surety accounts through multiple distribution channels in both the United States and Canada. We write on behalf of W. R. Berkley Corporation member company Berkley Insurance Company, which has an A.M. Best rating of A+ (Superior). We pride ourselves on building strong relationships with our agents. We highly value the insight and expertise our agency partners bring to the table which helps us provide timely and predictable surety solutions. CONTRACT SURETY - We supports traditional contractors in a broad range of disciplines and segments of the construction industry in both the United States and Canada. Knowledge and experience are more important today than ever before. We take a comprehensive underwriting approach and seek to understand what makes your client’s business unique. Once we understand their business model, we determine the specific needs required to make it a successful enterprise. We look at performance, profitability, leverage and cash flow management. Looking at each company as an individual risk, we seek to identify the risk factors that are unique to their business. COMMERCIAL SURETY - Rather than rely solely on technology, we built our commercial surety strategy around people instead of computers. While the best available technology is an integral component of our analytics and delivery, the driving force in Berkley Surety's commercial enterprise is our people. Our people are experienced in intellectual capital, and have proven experience working with large, publicly traded risks. "If it makes sense, let's find a way to do it." Complex programs for large companies require support from a number of products beyond traditional commercial surety, such as contract surety, subdivision and environmental.