Katelyn Mae Ferry is a Partner at and Founding Member of Cambo Ferry, PLLC. Ms. Ferry has practiced exclusively insurance defense litigation since 2014 and has focused her practice on the areas of first and third-party insurance coverage and defense. Ms. Ferry represents clients in all stages of defense, including the investigative phase, pre-litigation, appraisal, and litigation regarding claims for windstorm, water, hurricane, fire, mold, and theft, including suspected fraud. She frequently conducts examinations under oath, provides coverage opinions and analysis, responds to civil remedy notices and notices of intent to initiate litigation, and represents insurers through all stages of litigation, including trial.

Ms. Ferry is frequently consulted by her clients to assist in all aspects of their business, including drafting and creating internal workflows, revising and submitting policy language to the OIR, and preparing internal claim handling templates.

Ms. Ferry has testified before the Florida legislature on topics such as one-way attorneys’ fees, bad-faith, and repeal of AOBs. She regularly presents on these topics at both state and national conferences and has also authored several articles on these topics. She is extremely invested in the defense bar and furtherance of stabilizing the Florida insurance market.

Ms. Ferry graduated with Honors from the University of Central Florida in 2007 with a major in Political Science and a minor in Legal Studies. She earned her law degree as a presidential merit scholar at Stetson University College of Law in 2012, where she was a member of the Moot Court Board and Phi Delta Phi Honor Society. While on the Moot Court Board, Ms. Ferry competed both in Hong Kong and Vienna in the Willem C. Vis Competition and was awarded Best Claimant’s Brief in 2011 and two Honorable Mentions for Claimant’s Brief in 2012 and Respondent’s Brief in 2011. Ms. Ferry also earned Book Awards for the highest grades in Disability Law and Interviewing and Counseling and the Matthew Bender Elder Law Book Award as the most distinguished student in Elder Law.

Ms. Ferry lives in Longwood, Florida with her husband and two children.  She enjoys hiking, traveling, trying new foods, leisure reading, nearly all outdoor activities, and is active in her church.

Bar Admissions

Florida, Sept. 2012
United States District Courts for the Southern District of Florida
United States District Courts for the Middle District of Florida

Memberships & Organizations

  • Certified Instructor from the Florida Department of Financial Services Education Section
  • Florida Defense Lawyers Association (FDLA), member and Legislative Action Committee, member
  • DRI, member
  • Property & Liability Research Bureau (PLRB), member
  • Wekiva Presbyterian Church, Currently Serving Elder, Chair of Christian Education Committee, Chair of Policy Manual Update Taskforce, Board Member of the Christian Child Center Board of Directors

Presentations

  • Florida Legislature Testimony
    • Regular Session on Property Insurance Reform, March 2025, Testified before the Florida House of Representatives Civil Justic and Claims Subcommittee
    • Special Session on Property Insurance Reform, December 2022, Testified before the Florida Senate on recent Legislative Changes
    • Special Session on Property Insurance Reform, May 2022, Testified before the Florida House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee
  • Panelist, “The Iconic Duo” Presentation at Windstorm Insurance Network (WIND) Conference, February 2026
  • Panelist, “Appraisal – Love it or Leave It?,” Florida Insurance Network Symposium (FINS) Conference, August 2025
  • Panelist, “Insurance Business Compliance,” Florida Insurance Network Symposium (FINS) Conference, August 2024
  • Panelist, “Wind, Flood, Fire, and Appraisal, Oh My!” Presentation at Florida Insurance Fraud Education Committee (FIFEC) Conference, June 2024
  • Panelist, “Wind, Flood, Fire, and Appraisal, Oh My!,” Presentation at the Florida Advisory Committee on Arson Prevention (FACAP) Conference, Feb 2024
  • Panelist, “Utilizing and Leveraging the Option to Repair Process Under the Policy,” Florida Insurance Network Symposium (FINS) Conference, August 2023
  • Panelist for Summary of SB2A, Webinar hosted by the FDLA, January 2023
  • Speaker, “Ian is not Irma,” Webinar hosted by CaseGlide, November 2022
  • Multiple internal client presentations and CE courses concentrating on legislative changes, proper responses to Notice of Intent to Initiate Litigation, Option to Repair, and Appraisal

Publications