Ken van Laar

Mr. Kenneth R.
van Laar, Jr., is a Chief Risk Officer at State Compensation Insurance Fund, a Principal at Casualty Actuarial Society and a Principal at The American Academy of Actuaries.
He was appointed Chief Risk Officer in January 2011.
He came to State Fund with more than 25 years of extensive industry experience.
As CRO, he oversees Corporate Underwriting, Actuarial, Risk Management and Enterprise Security / Information Governance functions, and also runs State Fund's Enterprise Risk Committee.
Mr. van Laar began his insurance-industry career in 1983 at Transamerica Insurance Group, and then moved on to Industrial Indemnity in 1988 where he was the Chief Pricing Actuary until 1994.
He was Liberty Mutual’s first regional actuary between 1994 and 1999, where he was responsible for developing pricing and risk selection methodologies in seven western states.
He later became Vice President & Chief Actuary of Liberty Mutual’s Middle Market.
In this role, he was responsible for developing Middle Market pricing strategy for the A-rated insurer.
Prior to joining State Fund, he worked with CompWest Insurance Company as Senior Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer and Chief Actuary.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983.