Latest Professional Liability Headlines

The New Frontier: Hidden exposures and brewing claims in the tech liability field

Mar 26 2007 // Information technology companies may explore the new frontier everyday, but do they know where their exposures lie? Will they be ready for the next big liability risk close encounter? “Owners and or creators of IT...

Top 10 ways for California surplus line brokers to avoid E&O exposures

Mar 26 2007 // Editor’s note: Although this article is geared toward California surplus line brokers, with small variations the same advice may be of help to surplus line and retail brokers in other states. Surplus line brokers...

Court ruling indicates claims made policy language ambiguous

Mar 26 2007 // A recent San Diego Superior Court ruling serves as a potential warning to legal malpractice insurers to review policy language to ensure their claims made policies can’t be more broadly construed as occurrence...

Top 10 ways for California surplus line brokers to avoid E&O exposures

Mar 26 2007 // Editor’s note: Although this article is geared toward California surplus line brokers, with small variations the same advice may be of help to surplus line and retail brokers in other states. Surplus line brokers...

As hedge fund industry matures, so do its liability risks

Mar 26 2007 // There are three things you can be sure will happen during your time on earth: death, taxes and plaintiff’s attorneys chasing the money. Hedge funds have the money! However, hedge fund managers are the epitome of...

Judge Rules Claims Made Policy Language Ambiguous

Mar 23 2007 // A recent San Diego Superior Court ruling serves as a potential warning to legal malpractice insurers to review policy language to ensure their claims made policies can’t be more broadly construed as occurrence...

Beazley Acquires Health Care Specialist Sapphire Blue

Mar 13 2007 // Beazley Group has agreed to acquire Sapphire Blue, an agency specializing in professional liability insurance for U.S. health care institutions, particularly long term care facilities. The transaction significantly...

Coverage or price? Package or mono-line?

Mar 12 2007 // Weighing the options on purchasing public officials’ and educators’ professional liability It’s an age-old insurance question, whether talking property, casualty, auto or professional liability. As a...

Mar 12 2007 // People Markel Insurance Co. named Thomas K. “Smitty” Smith as vice president of marketing. Smith joins Markel after three years as senior vice president and managing director of the Richmond branch of Riggs,...

Coverage or price? Package or mono-line?

Mar 12 2007 // It’s an age-old insurance question, whether talking property, casualty, auto or professional liability. As a buyer, how much coverage can you afford to live without in order to get the premium number that fits nicely...

London American Professional Liability, LLC introduces a new Accountants Professional Liability Program

Feb 28 2007 // Fort Lee, New Jersey – London American Professional Liability, LLC (LAPL), a Program Administrator and MGA, introduces a new program for Accountants Professional Liability. The program is being offered in most states...

WKF&C Adds Insurance Agents’ Professional Liability Coverage

Feb 15 2007 // WKF&C Agency, Inc. has expanded its professional liability facility to include coverage for insurance agents and brokers. The nationwide managing general agency for excess and surplus lines said the coverage, written...

Guy Carpenter Appoints Hanke Senior V.P.-Treaty

Feb 15 2007 // Guy Carpenter & Co., LLC, the risk and reinsurance specialist and part of the Marsh & McLennan Companies, named Steven Hanke as senior vice president- treaty for the Eastern Region of North America. Hanke will be...

New Wholesale Broker, Camford National, Opens in N.J.

Feb 13 2007 // Lebanon, N.J.-based Camford National Insurance Brokers LLC, has opened as a specialty lines wholesale insurance brokerage serving property/casualty agents and brokers both nationally and internationally. Camford National...

Darwin Adds Managed Care E&O Risk Management Program

Feb 5 2007 // Darwin Professional Underwriters Inc. has established a comprehensive risk management and loss control program for its managed care errors and omissions (E&O) liability policyholders at no additional cost. The...

Pateras Joins Integro (Bermuda) Healthcare Professional Liability Team

Jan 31 2007 // Integro (Bermuda) Ltd. announced that Susan N. Pateras has joined the firm as a Principal in the Healthcare Practice, and will lead the Bermuda Healthcare initiative. “Ms. Pateras has more than a decade of experience...

Chicago Park Group Promotes Peter Upjohn, Creates New Department

Jan 30 2007 // Chicago-based The Park Group, a wholesale insurance brokerage has announced the promotion of Peter Upjohn to the position of manager of the newly established Professional Liability Brokerage Department. Upjohn is...

Burns & Wilcox Adds Ebert in Baltimore

Jan 29 2007 // Burns & Wilcox, the Farmington Hills, Mich.-based national specialty insurance wholesaler, announced the addition of Jennifer Ebert, who joins the company’s Baltimore office in the position of senior commercial...

Montfort Named VP with Willis LegalGuard Team in Fla.

Jan 29 2007 // Willis Group Holdings, Ltd. named J. Norman Monfort, CIC, as vice president in its LawyerGuard Program to expand the company’s programs for the legal sector. Monfort and the LawyerGuard team are based in Tampa,...

Allied medical professional liability: healthy growth to continue

Jan 28 2007 // Allied Medical Professional Liability insurance provides coverage for those risks associated with the use of Allied Health care Providers (AHPs), commonly known as “nonphysician clinicians.” This coverage is...