Senior property & casualty underwriter
BURNS & WILCOX CANADA
Location: Ontario
Age: 34
Years in insurance: 10
Patricia Sheridan joined Burns & Wilcox Canada four years ago and currently serves as a senior property & casualty underwriter. Calling on nearly 10 years of insurance industry expertise, she reviews, underwrites and rates broker submissions for new and renewal business. Additionally, Sheridan mentors and trains employees by holding weekly training sessions with assistants in the property & casualty team. During her first year at Burns & Wilcox Canada, Sheridan rose to become the top new business achiever among the company’s property & casualty underwriters, and is still ranked as the top new business achiever among all underwriters in the group. She was also selected to attend an annual week-long convention with other underwriters in London, visiting Lloyd’s of London.
Sheridan holds the Chartered Insurance Professional designation and is an active board member of the Young Insurance Professionals of Toronto. She views mentoring and training junior employees as her way of giving back to the industry, and is very focused on building and maintaining strong relationships with brokers and carriers.
