Latest Directors Officers Headlines
All the headlines from our Directors Officers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Marsh cautions Europeans on U.S. subprime crisis
Sep 3 2007 // Insurance broker Marsh UK issued a warning to the European financial services sector, including insurance companies, hedge funds, banks and ratings agencies, that “they may be exposed to greater D&O and E&O...
News Currents
Sep 3 2007 // The blame game and the subprime mortgage lending meltdown The subprime mortgage lending blame game is in full swing — with people arguing about who’s at fault for mortgage defaults, bond losses and lender...
The Blame Game and the Subprime Mortgage Lending Meltdown
Aug 22 2007 // The subprime mortgage lending blame game is in full swing — with people arguing about who’s at fault for mortgage defaults, bond losses and lender failures — but “we’re only in the very top of the...
Marsh UK Warns of Possible E&O, D&O Liabilities from Subprime Defaults
Aug 21 2007 // Marsh UK issued a warning to the European financial services sector, including insurance companies, hedge funds, banks and ratings agencies, that “they may be exposed to greater Directors’ and Officers’...
Directors & Officers Liability
Aug 6 2007 // For years, environmental issues, including issues arising from global warming, have hovered on the periphery of concerns affecting directors’ and officers’ liability exposure. But an April 2, 2007, decision by...
Commercial lines insights of top agencies
Aug 6 2007 // While much of the talk about the current commercial and professional lines market turns to insurers lowering their prices, the soft market is requiring agents to raise their agencies’ level of attention paid to...
Are lower securities lawsuit filing levels temporary or permanent?
Aug 6 2007 // There are a number of reasons to be skeptical, based on limited data, that we have moved to a permanently lower level of fraudulent corporate activity and of securities class action filings. In early July, Stanford...
Commercial lines insights of top agencies
Aug 6 2007 // While much of the talk about the current commercial and professional lines market turns to insurers lowering their prices, the soft market is requiring agents to raise their agencies’ level of attention paid to...
ACE UK Puts Davidson in Charge of D&O, Employment Liability Business
Jul 27 2007 // ACE UK has promoted Diane Davidson to UK & Ireland D&O Regional Manager. Davidson will be responsible for the development and management of all UK regional business for directors and officers, pension trustee...
Bankruptcy and D&O Claims Settlements
Jul 23 2007 // Ever since “entity coverage” became a part of the standard directors’ and officers’ policy, bankruptcy courts have wrestled with the question of whether D&O policy proceeds are property of the...
Guy Carp Issues UK Liability Survey
Jul 5 2007 // Guy Carpenter & Company, the global risk and reinsurance specialist of the Marsh & McLennan Companies, has published “A Year in Review – 2006 Update,” its fourth annual review of the liability...
Managing D&O claims expense
Jun 18 2007 // One of the standard features of the typical directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policy is the provision allowing the insureds to select their own defense counsel, subject only to the insurance...
R&M Adds UK D&O Report
Jun 11 2007 // Dublin-based Research and Markets has added a report on UK Directors and Officers Insurance 2007 to their offering. R&M described the study as providing “a detailed discussion of the state of the UK directors...
Climate Change: Directors’ and officers’ risk ahead?
Jun 4 2007 // For years, environmental issues, including issues arising from global warming, have hovered on the periphery of concerns affecting directors’ and officers’ liability exposure. But an April 2, 2007, decision by...
Business Risk Partners, Praetorian Offer Small-Middle Market D&O
May 23 2007 // Business Risk Partners and Praetorian Financial Group are launching insurance products: Private Accord and Excess Guardian. Private Accord is a directors and officers liability package product for small and middle market...
Insider trading plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?
May 21 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...
Insider trading plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?
May 21 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...
D&O, workers’ comp lead downhill pricing parade, according to risk managers’ survey
May 21 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,...
The rest of the story: directors and officers coverage for independents
May 21 2007 // The historic out-of-pocket payments made in recent years by independent directors of publicly traded firms are enough to instill fear in board members everywhere, not to mention their insurance brokers. But is the fear...
Minding Your Business
May 7 2007 // Executive risk exposures producers should know 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...
