DAVID K. KERR
dkerr@bbs-legal.com
Direct: 303.515.2483
Position:   Of Counsel

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
     Born in Wichita, Kansas, Mr. Kerr was admitted to the Colorado bar in 1967.  Mr. Kerr has extensive experience in fidelity, surety, and financial institution bond claims and litigation.  For 20 years, he served as Regional Bond Claims Attorney for a leading domestic carrier in that industry.  He currently performs similar regional functions for another multi-line carrier.  He also serves as National Claims Monitoring Counsel for a Colorado-based captive insurer which covers a significant section of the financial institution market.    

     Mr. Kerr has extensive experience in directors' and officers' liability insurance, representation of creditor interests in bankruptcy and in all phases of construction.    
He is a past Vice Chairman of the Fidelity and Surety Law Committee of the ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section.

EDUCATION 
Knox College, B.A., 1964
University of Denver, J.D., 1967, Order of St. Ives

MEMBERSHIPS
Denver Bar Association
Colorado Bar Association
American Bar Association
     ABA Forum Committee on Construction
     Section of Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice
          Fidelity and Surety Law Committee
National Bond Claims Association
Rocky Mountain Surety Association
Surety Claims Institute

ADMISSIONS
1967, Colorado
1967, United States District Court, District of Colorado

PUBLICATIONS
"Musings Miscellaneous: Self-Insured Federal Black Lung and State Worker Compensation Bonds," IADC Surety Trial Practice Program, 1994

Sections of the ABA's First (1983) and Second (1988) Supplements and Second Edition (1994) of the Annotated Financial Institution Bond

"Does Issuance of a Bid Bond Constitute a Performance Commitment?" Forum, 1980

"Principal Exclusions to the Financial Institution Bond," ABA Financial Institution Bonds National Institute (London, 1992) , (New York, 1995) and (Philadelphia, 1998).