Latest Directors Officers Headlines
All the headlines from our Directors Officers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insider trading plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?
May 7 2007 // For several years, directors and officers underwriters have viewed corporate insiders’ adoption of so-called “Rule 10b5-1 plans” as evidence of good corporate governance and as a positive underwriting...
Executive risk exposures producers should know
May 7 2007 // Every day, corporate executives are expected to make the perfect business decisions on all issues. Obviously, this does not happen all the time. The best one can truly expect is for the executives to make the best decision...
Executive risk exposures producers should know
May 7 2007 // The true insurance professional will understand that there exists a complex world of executive risk losses that can range from shareholder litigation against the board of directors, human resource related claims, lawsuits...
Towers Perrin D&O Report: Spike in Demand for Personal Cover, Higher Limits, Enhancements
May 3 2007 // Public and private companies — more than 66% of respondents — have received a record number of inquiries from potential board members who are concerned about their current directors and officers (D&O)...
ACE Europe Offers Online Environmental Cover
Apr 30 2007 // ACE European Group announced from its London office that its Commercial Premises Pollution Liability (PPL) product is available online via its fully automated e-commerce platform – ACE Online. ACE said it is...
New Chubb D&O Form Addresses Trends Outside the U.S.
Apr 30 2007 // In response to changes in insurance regulations and more stringent corporate governance requirements worldwide, the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has introduced a Difference in Limits/Difference in Conditions...
D&O, Workers’ Comp Lead Downhill Pricing Parade, According to RIMS
Apr 30 2007 // Directors and officers insurance continues to be a highly competitive line. In the first quarter of 2007, D&O prices decreased by 7.7 percent and by more than 12 percent in the last two quarters of 2006 combined,...
Navigators Pro Enhances D&O for Companies Offering Securities
Apr 26 2007 // Navigators Pro has enhanced its primary directors and officers liability policy for publicly traded corporations offering securities in the event of a securities class action lawsuit with the Offering InNAVation...
Globalization of directors and officers coverage
Apr 23 2007 // International business expansions deliver new exposures, new concerns Globalization of directors and officers (D&O) liability products has opened up a whole new world of “what ifs” and “spiraling...
Insider Trading Plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?
Apr 23 2007 // For several years, directors and officers underwriters have viewed corporate insiders’ adoption of so-called “Rule 10b5-1 plans” as evidence of good corporate governance and as a positive underwriting...
Globalization of directors and officers coverage
Apr 23 2007 // Globalization of directors and officers (D&O) liability products has opened up a whole new world of “what ifs” and “spiraling concerns” for the insurance industry. For starters, insurers,...
Top 10 myths of D&O liability insurance
Apr 9 2007 // In today’s soft directors and officers market, the importance of a long term approach can often be lost in the process of securing coverage. However, history has proven in the past 15-plus years that the D&O...
Top 10 myths of D&O liability insurance
Apr 9 2007 // In today’s soft directors and officers market, the importance of a long term approach can often be lost in the process of securing coverage. However, history has proven in the past 15-plus years that the D&O...
PLUS, CPCU To Host D&O Seminar in San Francisco on April 11
Mar 27 2007 // The Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) of Northern California and the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Society (CPCU) Golden Gate Chapter will present their first joint program, “Directors and...
Top 10 myths of D&O liability insurance
Mar 26 2007 // Squelching frequent misconceptions of this valuable protection. In today’s soft directors and officers market, the importance of a long term approach can often be lost in the process of securing coverage. However,...
Recent “opt-out” settlements challenge D&O severity, limits assumptions
Mar 26 2007 // A recent wave of individual institutional investor securities lawsuit “opt-out” settlements is raising troubling new questions about both D&O carriers’ claims severity assumptions and D&O...
Recent “opt-out” settlements challenge D&O severity, limits assumptions
Mar 26 2007 // A recent wave of individual institutional in-vestor securities lawsuit “opt-out” settlements is raising troubling new questions about both D&O carriers’ claims severity assumptions and D&O...
Top 10 myths of D&O liability insurance
Mar 26 2007 // In today’s soft directors and officers market, the importance of a long term approach can often be lost in the process of securing coverage. However, history has proven in the past 15-plus years that the D&O...
Recent “opt-out” settlements challenge D&O severity, limits assumptions
Mar 26 2007 // A recent wave of individual institutional in-vestor securities lawsuit “opt-out” settlements is raising troubling new questions about both D&O carriers’ claims severity assumptions and D&O...
Should D&O insurers have a loss prevention role?
Mar 12 2007 // Why don’t directors and officers insurers insist on corporate governance reform from their insureds as a precondition of coverage, the way property and workers’ compensation insurers condition their coverage on...
