Latest Directors Officers Headlines
All the headlines from our Directors Officers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nonprofit D&O Essentials: Homeowners, Condo Association Boards Beware
Nov 7 2005 // Americans place significant value on their residential investments. So who wouldn’t want to get involved in one’s homeowners or condominium association? But the directors and officers of these nonprofit...
MarketScout Barometer Shows Continued Softening in Professional Liability Market
Nov 7 2005 // MarketScout has analyzed the submissions from its agency network in an exclusive market evaluation on behalf of the Insurance Journal. Additionally, MarketScout conducted in person interviews with various industry leading...
Employment Practices Liability: Like Fine Wine, Better With Time
Nov 7 2005 // Many insurance products grow better with the passage of time, as good underwriters look for ways to structure the policy language to be more response to evolving claims scenarios, legislative and judicial developments and...
Should the D&O Fraud Exclusion Have More Teeth?
Nov 7 2005 // Imagine that you are a new independent director of a public company. Outside auditors uncovered accounting irregularities within one of the company’s primary sales divisions. An internal investigation led to a...
Should the Directors and Officers Fraud Exclusion Have More Teeth?
Nov 7 2005 // Insureds need to understand the circumstances under which their insurer may invoke the fraud exclusion to deny coverage or leverage a reduction in potential payouts. Imagine that you are a new independent director of a...
Should the D&O Fraud Exclusion Have More Teeth?
Nov 6 2005 // Imagine that you are a new independent director of a public company. Outside auditors uncovered accounting irregularities within one of the company’s primary sales divisions. An internal investigation led to a...
Should the Directors and Officers Fraud Exclusion Have More Teeth?
Nov 6 2005 // Insureds need to understand the circumstances under which their insurer may invoke the fraud exclusion to deny coverage or leverage a reduction Imagine that you are a new independent director of a public company. Outside...
Nonprofit D&O Essentials: Homeowners, Condo Association Boards Beware
Nov 6 2005 // Americans place significant value on their residential investments. So who wouldn’t want to get involved in one’s homeowners or condominium association? But the directors and officers of these nonprofit...
Employment Practices Liability: Like Fine Wine, Better With Time
Nov 6 2005 // Many insurance products grow better with the passage of time, as good underwriters look for ways to structure the policy language to be more response to evolving claims scenarios, legislative and judicial developments and...
MarketScout Barometer Shows Continued Softening in Professional Liability Market
Nov 6 2005 // MarketScout has analyzed the submissions from its agency network in an exclusive market evaluation on behalf of the Insurance Journal. Additionally, MarketScout conducted in person interviews with various industry leading...
Integro Names Management Risk Practice Principal in San Francisco
Nov 1 2005 // Integro has appointed Paula Choy principal, management risk practice, for the company’s San Francisco office. Choy has 14 years of experience in directors and officers liability brokerage, most recently serving as...
San Francisco-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. announced that William Dougherty has joined the firm as an Account Executive w
Oct 17 2005 // Hilb Rogal and Hobbs Company, headquartered in Glen Allen, Va., has appointed Michael Crowley to the position of president. In that role, Crowley will have overall responsibility for profit and loss, revenue growth,...
The Ins and Outs of Claims-Made Policies
Oct 3 2005 // Claims-made policies are policies commonly associated with professional liability policies, such as Directors & Officers, Employment Practices Liability and other miscellaneous professional liability policies including...
Competition, Regulation and Katrina a Concern at PLUS D&O Symposium
Oct 3 2005 // Wrapping up the PLUS D&O West Symposium held Sept. 13-14 in San Francisco, senior management personnel from insurers, brokerage firms, corporations and law firms concluded that competition is shaping the current and...
Competition, Regulation and Katrina a Concern at PLUS D&O Symposium
Oct 3 2005 // Wrapping up the PLUS D&O West Symposium held Sept. 13-14 in San Francisco, senior management personnel from insurers, brokerage firms, corporations and law firms concluded that competition is shaping the current and...
The Ins and Outs of Claims-Made Policies
Oct 3 2005 // Claims-made policies are policies commonly associated with professional liability policies, such as Directors & Officers, Employment Practices Liability and other miscellaneous professional liability policies...
Dougherty Joins Woodruff-Sawyer
Sep 8 2005 // San Francisco-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. announced that William Dougherty has joined the firm as an Account Executive with their Directors & Officers Practice. In this role, Dougherty will consult with clients...
Community Bankers’ D&O
Sep 5 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Mayfield Village, Ohio-based Progressive Casualty Ins. Co. released a new directors’ and officers’/company liability policy for financial institutions. The new policy allows bankers to...
Case Law Watch
Sep 5 2005 // Boghos v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London (California, July 18, 2005) Ruling: This case considered the effect and enforceability of an arbitration clause in a contract for disability insurance. The Supreme...
Arbitration
Sep 5 2005 // Boghos v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London (California, July 18, 2005) Ruling: This case considered the effect and enforceability of an arbitration clause in a contract for disability insurance. The Supreme...
