Latest Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Don’t be guilty of ignoring the lawyers’ E&O marketplace
Jan 28 2007 // Every day hundreds of thousands of lawyers throughout the U.S. provide legal advice, depose witnesses, prepare and file various legal documents, negotiate contracts and settlements, make court appearances, attend...
PGU Introduces New Professional Liability Policies for Public and Educational Entities
Jan 26 2007 // Richmond, Virginia – Professional Governmental Underwriters, Inc. (PGU) today announces the introduction of new, enhanced public entity errors and omissions (E&O) liability insurance products, with policies...
Darwin Enhances Public Entity E&O Products
Jan 26 2007 // Darwin Professional Underwriters, Inc. is making available enhanced public entity errors and omissions (E&O) liability insurance products, with policies to address educators professional liability risks, police...
Willis Strengthens Montreal Presence
Jan 19 2007 // Global insurance broker, Willis Group Holdings is strengthening its presence in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with several new appointments. Luc Brunet and Jacques Simard have been named to the positions of Sr. VP and Account...
AXIS Reorganizes; Reding Named COO
Jan 18 2007 // Bermuda’s AXIS Capital has announced a strategic reorganization “to further strengthen the global operations of AXIS Insurance,” starting with the appointment of Dennis Reding, currently that...
Shand Morahan Revamps Lawyers Professional Liability Program
Jan 12 2007 // Shand Morahan & Company Inc., underwriting manager of Evanston Insurance Company, revamped its lawyers professional liability program, now called Designed Protection for Law Firms. Targeted to hard-to-place attorneys...
Ill. The Park Group Adds Senior Vice President
Jan 10 2007 // The Park Group (AVRECO), a wholesale insurance brokerage in Chicago, has announced the hiring of Sarah Dore, CPCU, to the position of senior vice president within the Healthcare department. Prior to joining AVRECO, Dore...
Dissecting a claims made policy
Jan 8 2007 // You’ve heard the phrase: “If I could predict the future, I would be wealthy.” If our industry truly could do that, underwriting, rating and pricing would become the easiest tasks on the planet. Short of...
Dissecting a claims made policy
Jan 8 2007 // You’ve heard the phrase: “If I could predict the future, I would be wealthy.” If our industry truly could do that, underwriting, rating and pricing would become the easiest tasks on the planet. Short of...
Contractors not buying into professional liability
Jan 8 2007 // Ames & Gough survey finds as many as 50% of contractors not covered Contractors, project owners, and project finance professionals are increasingly interested in the niche market of contractors’ professional...
Dissecting a claims made policy
Jan 7 2007 // You’ve heard the phrase: “If I could predict the future, I would be wealthy.” If our industry truly could do that, underwriting, rating and pricing would become the easiest tasks on the planet. Short of...
Dissecting a claims made policy
Jan 7 2007 // You’ve heard the phrase: “If I could predict the future, I would be wealthy.” If our industry truly could do that, underwriting, rating and pricing would become the easiest tasks on the planet. Short of...
Contractors not buying into professional liability Ames & Gough survey finds as many as 50% of contractors not covered
Jan 7 2007 // Contractors, project owners, and project finance professionals are increasingly interested in the niche market of contractors’ professional liability insurance (CPLI), according to a recent survey of insurers writing...
2006: Soft market offers up many new insurance products
Dec 25 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
Professional liability in a financial world
Dec 25 2006 // Terrorism, corporate scandals and regulation make way for institutional change What professional liability exposures do financial institutions face today? Have risks significantly changed since 2001? If so, why? Major...
Dec 24 2006 // People Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during the group’s winter meeting in San Antonio, Texas. NAIC named Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell president,...
2006 New Markets Report
Dec 24 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
Professional liability in a financial world
Dec 24 2006 // What professional liability exposures do financial institutions face today? Have risks significantly changed since 2001? If so, why? Major events have had a direct impact on insurers, agents and the industry and have...
Burns & Wilcox Promotes Lyon to Assistant Branch Manager in Sacramento
Dec 20 2006 // Burns & Wilcox, a Farmington Hills, Mich.-based national specialty insurance wholesaler, underwriter and managing general agent, has promoted Ken Lyon to assistant branch manager in the company’s Sacramento,...
S&P Raises Outlook on Professionals Direct
Dec 20 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services recently revised its outlook on Professionals Direct Insurance Co. (PDIC) to stable from negative. Standard & Poor’s also said that it affirmed its ‘BBB’...
