Latest Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Comparing apples to apples, not oranges
Nov 6 2006 // Using benchmarking tools to assist in determining objective policy limits and deductibles Serious baseball fans were fascinated by Michael Lewis’ 2003 book titled “Moneyball” that advanced the theory that...
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 5 2006 // Lawyers’ professional liability is a bit different from other professional liability risks, and there appears to be interest in providing coverage for the risk. Back in the 1970s, lawyers professional liability used...
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 5 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/engineers. While...
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 5 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/ engineers. Lawyers, in...
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 5 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/ engineers. Lawyers, in...
Innovations in information technology spur need for up-to-date underwriters
Nov 5 2006 // With rapid innovations in the field of information technology, types of underwriting that didn’t exist a few decades ago have become prominent today. For example, companies engaging in information technology...
Comparing apples to apples, not oranges
Nov 5 2006 // Serious baseball fans were fascinated by Michael Lewis’ 2003 book titled “Moneyball” that advanced the theory that at least one prominent major league baseball team had utilized statistical analysis of...
Social services agencies need extra care and an agent’s helping hand
Nov 5 2006 // Few independent agents recognize that they can make profits from not-for-profit organizations, says Dan Mogelnicki, president of Manhasset, N.Y.-based NIF Underwriting Facilities, a program administrator and wholesale...
AFPD Launches Lawyers Professional Liability Program
Nov 2 2006 // Administrators for the Professions of Delaware Inc. introduced a new market for law firms with one to 15 attorneys that have disciplinary or frequency/severity issues. Firms performing high risk areas of practice (e.g.,...
Study Reveals Leading Indicators for Hospital Professional Liability Claims
Oct 31 2006 // Advisen Ltd., a provider of analytics, benchmarking and market information to the global commercial insurance industry, released the results of its recent hospital professional liability claims study done in cooperation...
The Hartford’s Net Income Jumps 41% for Third Quarter
Oct 30 2006 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. reported record third quarter 2006 net income of $758 million, or $2.39 per diluted share — a sizable 41 percent boost over the same quarter last year. The Hartford’s...
Profits Surge at Chubb; Professional Liability Continues Improvement
Oct 27 2006 // The Chubb Corp. reported that net income in the third quarter of 2006 was $604 million, or $1.43 per share, compared to $246 million, or $0.60 per share, in the third quarter of 2005. Operating income increased to $579...
ProLawyer Insurance, LLC Announces MGA Appointment for an Admitted Lawyers Professional Liability Product in DE, MD & PA
Oct 16 2006 // Newtown, PA – ProLawyer Insurance, LLC is pleased to announce their Managing General Agent appointment with an A.M. Best “A” (Excellent) rated carrier for Lawyers Professional Liability in Delaware,...
What Does the Future Hold for Insurance Agents’ E&O?
Oct 13 2006 // David Duncan of David C. Duncan Insurance Services in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., is worried about whether and how much the cost of his agency errors and omissions insurance might go up next year. Duncan started his...
Arrowhead General Ins. Agency’s Professional Liability Division Offers Online Quoting For Private Company D&O Program
Oct 12 2006 // San Diego, CA – Arrowhead General Insurance Agency’s, Inc. Professional Liability Division offers fast and easy online quotes through Arrowhead Exchange for their Private Company Directors & Officers...
The Hartford Introduces Professional Liability Policy for Business Services
Oct 10 2006 // The Hartford Financial Products, a unit of The Hartford, has introduced The Hartford Professional Choice Liability Policy, a new miscellaneous professional liability policy for firms and their employees involved in the...
WSS, Shand Morahan Offer Free Misc. Professional Liability Seminar, Oct. 19
Oct 10 2006 // Western Security Surplus’ Orange County, Calif., office and Shand Morahan will host a free seminar on “Writing Miscellaneous Professional Liability Insurance” on Oct. 19, 2006, for insurance agents and...
The Future for Agents’ E & O
Oct 9 2006 // David Duncan of David C. Duncan Insurance Services in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., is worried about whether and how much the cost of his agency errors and omissions insurance might go up next year. Duncan started his...
Getting to know your agency’s E&O
Oct 9 2006 // Insurance agents’ errors and omissions policies are not created equal. An agent who purchases E&O based solely on price may experience a rude awakening when it’s time to report a claim. Here are just a few...
8 Pa. court rebuffs Republicans on
Oct 9 2006 // liability award law Law will not be reinstated as they hoped 8 Bad buying habits in N.H. Audit blasts state insurance purchasing and risk management 10 Oh, deer it’s that season One insurer is bucking trend of deer...
