Latest Directors Officers Headlines

All the headlines from our Directors Officers Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Health Care D&O Rates Rise Over Obamacare Antitrust Concerns: Marsh

Dec 16 2013 // Health care organizations paid significantly more for their directors and officers liability insurance in the third quarter of 2013 amid growing concerns over antitrust issues arising from implementation of the Affordable...

Arch Insurance Group Launches New Side A D&O Policy

Nov 22 2013 // Arch Insurance Group, a member of Arch Capital Group Ltd., has launched a new specialized management liability product in the U.S. that features: Arch Essential Side A Side A lead difference in conditions (DIC) Follow form...

Franchise Opportunities

Nov 4 2013 // Can you name an industry that contributes $2 trillion to our country’s gross national product (GNP)? How about an industry that is the fastest-growing and represents one in every 12 businesses that exist today? Or...

ACE Bermuda Launches New CODA Premier D&O Policy

Oct 30 2013 // ACE Bermuda has launched a new CODA Premier directors and officers liability policy. The CODA Premier policy offers personal asset protection to directors and officers and is available through ACE’s commercial...

D&O Liability Insurance Rates Fell in Q2: Marsh

Oct 10 2013 // U.S. publicly-traded clients paid 4.9 percent more on average for their primary directors and officers liability (D&O) coverage in the second quarter, according to global broker Marsh. However, Marsh said, when...

Zurich Launches Side A D&O Coverage for Corporate Leaders in the U.S. and Abroad

Oct 10 2013 // Zurich has introduced a new Side A D&O policy that addresses the evolving litigation landscape and provides coverage for liability exposures in the global marketplace, including China, Brazil, Mexico, Japan and India....

Pitfalls That Can Derail Insurance Coverage Disputes

Oct 7 2013 // Insurance coverage disputes have a lot of commonalities. And lawyers who represent both sides of the table — defense and plaintiff — say participants in such disputes should be aware of certain potentially adversarial...

U.S. Risk, Western World Launch Private D&O, EPL, Fiduciary Liability Program

Oct 3 2013 // U.S. Risk Pro, a division national MGA and surplus lines wholesaler U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc., and Western World Insurance Group have launched a new program for private company directors and officers liability. This...

Hudson, C&F Shift D&O and E&O Business

Sep 17 2013 // Hudson Insurance Group and Crum & Forster, both owned by Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., announced a strategic realignment of their directors and officers (D&O) and management liability business. C&F will...

D&O Lawsuits by FDIC on Record-Setting Pace: Cornerstone Research

Sep 17 2013 // This year’s Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) litigation over failed financial institutions is already exceeding that of the previous three years. According to a new report by Cornerstone Research —...

QBE North America to Launch D&O Line, Names Grange As Leader

Aug 23 2013 // Jeffrey S. Grange has been appointed head of Management Liability and Professional Lines for QBE North America, which plans to launch a directors and officers (D&O) liability division. Grange has 25 years experience in...

Allied World Asia-Pacific Launches ‘Side A’ D&O Coverage

Aug 21 2013 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG announced from its headquarters in Switzerland the launch of its Asia-Pacific platform, “the Executive ForceField product to provide a new level of protection for company...

Information Technology and Risk Complexity

Aug 19 2013 // In today’s legal environment, nearly every company faces some kind of litigation risk. With the growing ubiquity of technology in not just the corporate market, but the consumer marketplace as well, the risk for...

AIG Expands D&O Side A Capacity to $100 Million

Aug 16 2013 // American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is has increased its global Side A directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance to $100 million. This new capacity from AIG can facilitate the resolution of severe and...

Endurance Appoints Head of U.S. Financial Institutions Insurance in New York

Aug 13 2013 // Endurance Specialty Holdings, a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property/casualty insurance and reinsurance, appointed Fred Cooper as executive vice president and head of U.S. financial institutions insurance, based in...

Mitsui Sumitomo at Lloyd’s Hires 2 Professional Indemnity, D&O Specialists

Aug 7 2013 // UK non-life insurer Mitsui Sumitomo at Lloyd’s has hired two experienced underwriters as its Syndicate 3210 seeks to diversify its products and distribution to capitalize on significant international...

EPLI in Southern California Playing ‘Hard’ to Get

Jun 25 2013 // Employment practices in California is a known and growing concern for insurers, agents and employers, and that concern has some carriers ramping up rates dramatically or quietly pulling back from the area, say those...

IPO-Seeking China Companies Pay More to Avoid Boards Going Naked

Jun 18 2013 // Stephen Markscheid holds one of the riskiest jobs in the world — or so say directors and officers liability insurers. The 59-year-old former banker, a Mandarin-speaking American, sits on the boards of five...

E&O Insights: Directors & Officers Liability Is Not Your Normal Insurance Product

May 14 2013 // If you asked 100 insurance professionals on the agency side what one line of business “scares” them the most, it’s likely that directors and officers (D&O) liability would be at the top. The lack of...

Directors, Officers Face Increased Scrutiny: Willis/Allen & Overy Survey

Apr 23 2013 // “The threat of regulatory investigations and enquiries, criminal penalties, along with anti-corruption legislation, are among the top concerns for directors and officers,” according to a new survey conducted by...