Trenton Laws, JD

• Lead advisor for foundries, forges, and heavy manufacturing on complex property and casualty insurance, with a focus on property insurance renewals, business interruption (BI), equipment breakdown, and furnace exposure. • Guide CEOs, CFOs, plant leaders, and ownership groups through selective markets, capacity constraints, and underwriting scrutiny to reduce surprises and improve renewal outcomes. • Review statement of values (SOV), replacement cost and insurance-to-value, COPE data, and submission quality to strengthen underwriting engagement and support better terms. • Identify coverage and program structure gaps, optimize limits and deductibles, and align risk strategy with operational reality and cash flow needs. • Support Non-Ferrous Founders’ Society (NFFS) members nationally as a resource for renewal preparation and insurance strategy. • Partner with underwriters, carriers, and risk engineering teams to place specialized manufacturing risks and translate facility operations into underwriting language.

• Advised manufacturing and middle market clients on property, casualty, and specialty insurance needs. • Developed market strategies that improved clarity and outcomes during volatility and limited capacity. • Strengthened renewal results through detailed risk analyses and underwriting narratives. • Collaborated with national teams to secure coverage for complex exposures, including BI, equipment breakdown, and furnace-related risks.

• Quote and write new business risks. • Assess new business to determine whether the risk should be placed in admitted or surplus lines. • Properly price new business within admitted and surplus lines. • Obtain reinsurance for large risks. • Work closely with brokers to obtain relevant documentation for new business. • Develop effective relationships with brokers through fast, efficient, and accurate communication. • Assist brokers with all underwriting related queries. • Maintain full knowledge of all policy forms, coverages, rating plans, and manuals for UFCIC products.

• Perform a detailed analysis of each claim. • Evaluate coverage and liability, issues written coverage determinations, adjust reserves within the authority, engage, monitor, and pay defense counsel, and oversee all aspects of claims file while working toward a resolution. • Attend arbitrations, mediations, trials, or other proceedings if necessary. • Provide information to underwriters on specific claims, trends, or issues that may affect the overall business. • Secure and analyzes information and documentation necessary to investigate and evaluate claims. • Ensure accuracy and timeliness of all claims payments and/or settlements. • Ensure that all claims activity is conducted in compliance with applicable law and the company’s policies and procedures. • Collaborate with other business units on specialized projects.

• Draft legal documents including briefs, complaints, discovery, and motions. • Prepare memoranda and briefs. • Conduct extensive legal research and analysis. • Provide immediate feedback at trial by listening, recording, and analyzing trial events. • Provide immediate feedback at depositions by listening, recording, and analyzing the deposed statements. • Interpret laws, rulings and regulations for specific cases. • Gather facts from potential clients through intake.

• Select profitable risks by identifying and analyzing risk exposures against coverage desired. • Modify policy coverages where necessary to reflect the individual characteristics of each account. • Manage and re-underwrite business to maintain profitable results. • Develop effective relationships with agents and other internal and external customers through communication, cooperation and periodic agency visits. • Maintain full knowledge of all policy forms, coverages, rating plans and manuals for commercial auto and farm products. • Complete assigned work to meet or exceed time and quality service standards.

• Draft, revise and cite check office memoranda. • Research current legal issues that affect Grange and report findings to supervisor. • Shadow general counsel attorneys to understand how the office operates on a day to day basis.

• Communicate with agents to complete screening and issuance of transactions. • Work as a team to dispatch all policy requests from agents in a timely manner. • Utilize analytical skills in processing credits and debits as necessary.

• Support the claims department with a working knowledge of personal auto, home, medical and casualty policies. • Assign AMD and PPT auto claims under strict timetable guidelines. • Train new FCSR associates and keep their supervisor aware of the progress. • Communicate efficiently with insureds, claimants, attorneys, vendors and agents.