Latest Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Accountants’ Professional Liability
Aug 23 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Philadelphia Insurance Companies is now offering accountants a professional liability policy that addresses the unique exposures that confront accountants’ everyday, as well as some first party...
Professional Liability
Aug 23 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Target Insurance Services now offers professional liability coverage. Target also offers stand-alone package coverage and first or third party crime, for staffing and recruitment firms. Dollars: Separate...
Maryland Pursues Unauthorized Med-Mal Insurers
Aug 20 2004 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer, Jr. has moved to end what his agency says is a comprehensive scheme of medical malpractice fraud aimed, particularly, at women’s clinics. Redmer issued a cease and...
WSS, Shand Offering Free Miscellaneous E&O Seminar
Aug 11 2004 // Richard Polizzi, president of Western Security Surplus, invites agents and brokers to a free informative Miscellaneous Professional Liability Insurance seminar on Aug. 25. The hosts for the seminar will be WSS’...
Allied World Assurance Expands N.Y. Operation for Underwriting
Aug 11 2004 // Allied World Assurance Holdings Ltd announced that its subsidiary, Allied World Assurance Company (U.S.) Inc., has expanded the capabilities of its New York office to underwrite excess liability and errors and omissions...
PIANJ Hails Court Ruling on Agent E&O
Aug 10 2004 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. said a decision rendered last week by the Supreme Court of New Jersey in the case of President vs. Jenkins is a victory for all agents because it maintains the current...
CalSurance Unveils National E&O Coverage for Broker-Dealers with 75 or Less Registered Reps
Jul 27 2004 // CalSurance, a national insurance sales, service and support organization comprising many diverse and specialized programs, has launched a specialized errors and omissions program for broker-dealers with 75 or fewer...
Quanta US Names Fishman President
Jul 22 2004 // Quanta U.S. Holdings Inc., the holding company for the U.S.-based specialty insurance operations of Quanta Capital Holdings Ltd., announced the appointment of Robert Fishman as president of U.S. insurance. Fishman, will...
Darwin, Target Markets Partner to Offer E&O
Jul 21 2004 // Darwin Professional Underwriters Inc. and the Target Markets Program Administrators Association have announced a program that establishes Darwin as the preferred provider of errors and omissions (E&O) liability...
Brokers Urged to Avoid Surprises in Lawyers’ E&O
Jul 19 2004 // The news that the market for lawyers’ liability coverage is softening may not be surprising but the questions that today’s insurance underwriters ask about law firm accounts might be, attendees at a recent...
Swett & Crawford Forms Professional Services Division
Jul 19 2004 // The Power of Many Specialists Rolled into One With the softening market at the front door of the insurance industry, brokers in the wholesale industry have been scurrying about to prepare for the inevitable dawn of hard...
White to Head New Swett & Crawford Specialty Division
Jul 19 2004 // Professional liability insurance is certainly no stranger to Jason White, managing director of Swett & Crawford Professional Services Group. The 37-year-old White, who has spearheaded the efforts of the new division,...
Brokers Urged to Avoid Surprises in Lawyers’ E&O
Jul 19 2004 // The news that the market for lawyers’ liability coverage is softening may not be surprising, but the questions that today’s insurance underwriters ask about law firm accounts might be, as the attendees at a...
Professional Liability
Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: NIF Pro, a division of NIF Group Inc. of Manhasset, N.Y., announced the availability of a new market for professional liability (including employment practices liability) for public entities in New...
Brokers Urged to Avoid Surprises in Lawyers’ E&O at PLUS Symposium
Jul 5 2004 // The news that the market for lawyers’ liability coverage is softening may not be surprising but the questions that today’s insurance underwriters ask about law firm accounts might be, attendees at a recent...
Brokers Urged to Avoid Surprises in Lawyers E&O
Jul 5 2004 // The news that the market for lawyers’ liability coverage is softening may not be surprising but the questions that today’s insurance underwriters ask about law firm accounts might be, attendees at a recent...
AXIS Specialty Europe to Offer Professional Lines
Jun 22 2004 // AXIS Capital Holdings Limited announced that its European insurance subsidiary, AXIS Specialty Europe Limited (AXIS Europe), has begun underwriting Directors and Officers Liability Insurance and other Professional Lines...
E&O/EPLI for Management Consultants
Jun 21 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Target Insurance Services has a new E&O/EPLI market for Management Consultants. The program is available to technology consultants, including those in information technology. Firms with revenues up...
Malpractice Insurer Exit From Mass. Worries Physicians
Jun 8 2004 // The impending departure of one of the few remaining commercial insurance companies offering liability coverage for physicians in Massachusetts is yet more evidence that the state faces a real crisis in professional...
American Professional Liability Underwriters Makes Pair of Promotions
Jun 8 2004 // Florida-based American Professional Liability Underwriters Inc. has announced a pair of promotions within the company. Robert Kenney has been named as president. Kenney has been with AmPro since 1996, and was formerly vice...
