Latest Directors Officers Headlines
All the headlines from our Directors Officers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
D&O Liability Insurance: A Complicated Risk
Nov 5 2001 // Directors and Officers liability, commonly known as D&O, is a complicated type of risk. While it covers corporate activities, a corporation is a legal person, as are the directors and officers...
Chubb’s D&O/Crime Policy for Community Associations Breaks New Ground
Oct 8 2001 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies introduces Protection for Community Association Leaders(SM), an insurance policy designed to meet the unique directors and officers (D&O) liability, employment practices...
Nonprofits Especially Need Protection Against D&O Liability Risks
Sep 17 2001 // Although Directors’ and Officers’ liability insurance (D&O) often is associated with large for-profit companies, they are not the only ones that need it. Many people hold the common misperception that...
Conseco Sues Six DO Insurers Over Litigation Coverage
Sep 11 2001 // Conseco Inc. is suing six of its own insurers, claiming they are attempting to dodge legitimate potential claims on directors and officers policies bought by the Indianapolis-based insurer. In its annual 10-Q filing with...
ePolicy Launches Nonprofit D&O Liability Product Via the Internet
Aug 14 2001 // ePolicy.com Insurance Services Inc. announced the launch of its nonprofit directors and officers (D&O) liability product, which the company states is the first in the industry allowing a nonprofit organization to...
Pine Street Expands Its Executive Staff
Dec 8 2000 // Pine Street Management Company, a unit of Swett & Crawford Group Inc., promoted founding underwriter Luis Roman from president to chairman and named insurance industry veteran William Morris as president. Roman, who...
Commentary: The Rainy Season Arrives as D&O Market Begins to Tighten
Oct 30 2000 // Hopefully D&O policyholders have been putting some premium away for a rainy day, because it has started to drizzle and thunderstorms are just around the corner. The end of the soft market is in sight. The last...
Volunteer Workforce, Lifeblood of the Nonprofits, Needs Special Coverages
Jul 24 2000 // Volunteers—without them, most nonprofit organizations would not exist. They are the common soil in which most mainstream nonprofits are planted, providing services in countless different areas. Yet although...
The Hartford, Reliance Sign Definitive Agreement
Jul 7 2000 // The Hartford Financial Services Group and Reliance Group Holdings have signed a definitive agreement to purchase Reliance’s financial products and the majority of its excess and surplus line. The Hartford announced...
Volunteer Workforce,Lifeblood of the Nonprofits, Need Special Coverages
May 29 2000 // Volunteers-without them, most nonprofit organizations would not exist. They are the common soil in which most mainstream nonprofits are planted, providing services in countless different areas. Yet although...
ABD Jumps From Fifth to Third Largest D&O Broker in Annual Survey
May 2 2000 // ABD Insurance and Financial Services now ranks as the third largest U.S. broker of D&O liability insurance, according to the 1999 Annual Tillinghast-Towers Perrin Survey. As one of the nation’s premier D&O...
Mergers, Acquisitions All Too Often Accompanied by Lawsuits
May 1 2000 // Along with the skyrocketing merger and acquisition activity during recent years, has come a general, albeit not unanimous, perception of a corresponding increase in M&A-related lawsuits-especially in...
Highest-Ever D&O Liability Shareholder Claim Reported
Feb 3 2000 // The average size of a shareholder directors & officers (D&O) liability claim award rose to $8.67 million, the highest ever, but overall pricing still declined for D&O liability insurance for the fourth...
