Latest Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Home Inspectors, Law Firms, Accountants
Apr 18 2005 // Avon, Conn.-based Target Insurance Services is making available new markets for home inspectors professional liability; professional liability for large law firms (50+ in size); and professional liability for accountants....
E&O for Broker-Dealers
Apr 18 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: CalSurance has enhanced its specialized errors and omissions program for broker-dealers with 75 or fewer registered representatives. It provides each broker-dealer with their own policy limits without...
In or Out? Courts Continue to Struggle with the Issue of Extrinsic Evidence
Apr 18 2005 // The issue of whether, and when, extrinsic evidence may be used to determine a duty to defend has never been clearly defined under Texas law. While a number of courts have recognized an exception, the exact parameters of...
Errors and Omissions for Broker-Dealers
Apr 18 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: CalSurance enhanced its specialized errors and omissions program for broker-dealers with 75 or fewer registered representatives. The program enhancement now provides each broker-dealer with its own...
Home Inspectors, Law Firms and Accountants
Apr 18 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Avon, Conn.-based Target Insurance Services has available new markets for home inspectors professional liability, including optional general liability; professional liability for large law firms (50+ in...
Schinnerer Unveils SpecialtyOne E&O Program for Management Consultants, Staffing Firms
Apr 14 2005 // Victor O. Schinnerer and Company announced the launch of SpecialtyOne, an E&O insurance program for management consultants and staffing firms. The program will be written through Brit, a Lloyd’s...
AEC Firms Can Learn from May Webcast
Apr 12 2005 // Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) firms have seen an 88% increase in the cost of professional liability coverage in the last three years, according to a recent survey by Zweig-White. To help architects...
Modern Insurance E&O Program Targets Small to Medium-Sized Fla. Agencies
Apr 5 2005 // Miami-based Modern Insurance Consultants Inc. and Darwin Professional Underwriters Inc. have introduced an Insurance Agents Errors & Omissions program for small to mid-sized Florida property/casualty agencies. The...
Target Insurance Services Launches 3 New Programs: Home Inspectors, Large Law Firms, Accountants
Apr 5 2005 // Avon, Conn.-based Target Insurance Services is making available new markets for home inspectors professional liability, including optional general liability; professional liability for large law firms (50+ in size); and...
Agents Beware: Due Diligence is Now Required
Apr 4 2005 // Transactions between retail agents and brokers they place business through just became more labor intensive. I recently testified as an expert in a federal case involving a reputable agency’s failure to conduct...
Agents Beware: Due Diligence is Now Required on Brokers
Apr 4 2005 // Transactions between retail agents and brokers they place business through just became more labor intensive. I recently testified as an expert in a federal case involving a reputable agency’s failure to conduct...
Texas Independent Agents Seek Fairness in Consumer Protection Statutes
Apr 4 2005 // Agents are treated unfairly by Texas statutes and the result is sky-rocketing errors and omissions insurance premiums, according to the Indepen-dent Insurance Agents of Texas. When rates in the E&O insurance program...
Speak to Join NAS Insurance Services
Mar 29 2005 // Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has appointed Robert T. Speak as Vice President in charge of its new Miscellaneous E&O facility. Speak brings 20 years of insurance experience to his new post. Previously he...
Agents Beware: Due Diligence is Now Required on Brokers
Mar 21 2005 // Transactions between retail agents and brokers they place business through just became more labor intensive. I recently testified as an expert in a federal case involving a reputable agency’s failure to conduct...
Agents Beware: Due Diligence is Now Required
Mar 21 2005 // Transactions between retail agents and brokers they place business through just became more labor intensive. I recently testified as an expert in a federal case involving a reputable agency’s failure to conduct...
Watters Warns Mich. Docs of Bogus Med-Mal Insurer
Mar 14 2005 // Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services Commissioner Linda A. Watters recently issued a warning about a medical liability insurer called Professional Liability Insurance Co. She said in a statement that the...
American Wholesale Insurance Group Adds Pritchard to Financial Risk Specialist Team
Mar 10 2005 // American Wholesale Insurance Group (AmWINS) has hired veteran Andrew Pritchard to lead the efforts of AmWINS’ Financial Risk Specialist Team (FIRST) in pioneering innovative insurance solutions for the global Asset...
Eaton Professional Insurance Services Formed
Mar 9 2005 // Colleen Eaton announced the opening of independently owned and operated Eaton Professional Insurance Services Inc. in Tustin, Calif. EPISI is a wholesale brokerage with access to over 80 different programs for errors...
Heads Up! Employees at Large
Mar 7 2005 // Wal-Mart, Morgan Stanley, Boeing, Texaco, State Farm and Farmers have all been the targets of recent employment practices lawsuits. Wal-Mart was hit with sexual harassment charges. Farmers was sued for wrongful...
News from Worldcom, Enron and Spitzer Invades PLUS Symposium
Mar 7 2005 // News from Worldcom, Enron and Spitzer Invades PLUS Symposium Settlements that reach beyond insurance and into the pockets of firms’ former directors draw attention to the limits of insurance, professional liability...
