Latest Directors Officers Headlines
All the headlines from our Directors Officers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Philadelphia Insurance Cos. Finalizes Deal to Purchase Fireman’s Fund NDO Renewal Rights
Nov 15 2004 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies has finalized an agreement with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company to purchase the renewal rights on Fireman’s Fund’s non-profit D&O book of business. The agreement is...
D&O Coverage
Nov 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has created Priority Protection, a new D&O product that protects individual directors and officers. Lawsuits are generally filed against the company and...
The Professional Liability Maelstrom
Oct 25 2004 // Service Providers at Risk As the United States, Europe, Japan and other developed countries turn from industrial-based to service-based economies, more and more people are engaged in providing services, and the more they...
Directors & Officers
Oct 11 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has created Priority Protection, a new D&O product that protects individual directors and officers. Lawsuits are generally filed against the company and...
D&O Coverage
Oct 11 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has created Priority Protection, a new D&O product that protects individual directors and officers. The company said Priority Protection is a highly...
Survey: Increased Stand-Alone A-Side D&O Purchasing
Sep 23 2004 // A recent survey of directors and officers (D&O) insurance buying trends at Fortune 1000 companies shows an increased emphasis on liability insurance designed specifically to protect executives’ personal assets....
Fiduciary Liability: The Most Misunderstood of Management Exposures
Sep 20 2004 // In the early 1960s, life in the United States was lived at a slower pace. Transportation and communication required more time (and patience) and employees were more inclined to trust employers on issues relating to...
The Hartford Unveils New D&O Coverage
Sep 14 2004 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has created Priority Protection, a new D&O product that protects the individual directors and officers. “Directors and officers (D&O) coverage was originally...
Crump Opens National Financial Lines Practice Centered on D&O, Other Lines of Professional Liability
Sep 10 2004 // Crump Insurance Services Inc., a provider of wholesale insurance brokerage services, is launching a national Financial Lines practice to serve the specialty insurance market for management and professional liability. Janet...
CNA’s Revised D&O Product Includes Personal Asset Coverage
Aug 26 2004 // Chicago-based commercial insurer CNA announced a revised product for directors and officers (D&O) to help reduce the risks associated with inadequate protection. CNA said its Individual Solutions policy has been...
Fiduciary Liability: The Most Misunderstood of Management Exposures
Aug 23 2004 // In the early 1960s, life in the United States was lived at a slower pace. Transportation and communication required more time (and patience) and employees were more inclined to trust employers on issues relating to...
Freeburg Joins Noodle Specialty Brokers, Will Underwrite D&O and EPLI
Aug 19 2004 // Chicago-based online wholesaler Noodle Specialty Brokers (NSB) announced that Jonathan Freeburg, 44, has joined the company as a senior underwriter focusing on private company directors’ and officers’ liability...
HCC Subs Assigned ‘AA’ Ratings
Aug 16 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services assigned its “AA” financial strength ratings to American Contractors Indemnity Co. (ACIC) and HCC Reinsurance Co. Ltd. (HCC Re), both subsidiaries of Houston-based...
‘Round and ‘Round the Cycle Goes, Where it Stops Nobody Knows
Aug 9 2004 // Like the wheels of Lance Armstrong’s bike—a blur of perpetual motion as he powered up mountain after mountain in the Tour de France—the non-stop cycle of the property/casualty insurance market continues on its...
A Decade of Improving Club Safety and Coverage
Aug 9 2004 // If you have ever insured or considered insuring golf and country clubs, you know that their risks can’t be classified or managed easily. They have kitchens and restaurants, clubhouses used for daily activities and...
D&O Market Still Faces Unresolved Securities Cases
Jul 19 2004 // Those involved in the directors and officers liability market face a continuing challenge in trying to assess the securities litigation landscape, where billions of dollars in mega and individual cases remain unresolved,...
‘Middle Market’ Not Immune to Directors & Officers Worries
Jul 19 2004 // The Enron, Adelphia, Global Crossing and WorldCom corporate governance and fraud scandals of 2001 and 2002 may seem like a distant and terrible memory, but the public received some harsh reminders recently. Former Enron...
Swett & Crawford Forms Professional Services Division
Jul 19 2004 // The Power of Many Specialists Rolled into One With the softening market at the front door of the insurance industry, brokers in the wholesale industry have been scurrying about to prepare for the inevitable dawn of hard...
PLUS: D&O Recovery Depends on More Discipline
Jul 19 2004 // Insurers must become more disciplined, underwrite more strictly, educate their insureds and price risks correctly if they expect the directors and officers liability market to improve, according to speakers at the PLUS...
RIMS: Soft Market Takes Hold as Commercial Premiums Decline 15%
Jul 15 2004 // In the continuing march toward a soft market, most commercial insurance buyers renewed their policies at the same or lower premiums last quarter, according to a survey of corporate risk managers. Data from the survey shows...
