Latest Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Besieged by Cyber Liability’
Sep 2 2002 // Web sites, online services, e-mail and software programs have created vast new industries whose clients demand that insurance coverage is in place prior to awarding contracts. Aside from creating new business...
Besieged by Cyber Liability’
Sep 2 2002 // Web sites, online services, e-mail and software programs have created vast new industries whose clients demand that insurance coverage is in place prior to awarding contracts. Aside from creating new business...
Gov. Bush Creates Medical Liability Task Force
Aug 30 2002 // Florida Governor Jeb Bush announced the creation of the Select Task Force on Healthcare Professional Liability Insurance to address the impact of skyrocketing liability insurance premiums on healthcare in Florida. The task...
High-Tech E&O Liability
Aug 19 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has launched a new errors and omissions (E&O) liability insurance policy that can be tailored to meet the needs of small- to large-sized information and...
ETHICS, E&O AND MORE
Aug 19 2002 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas’ (IIAT) new schedule of courses for fall 2002 includes classes in ethics and E&O loss control and more. The IIAT has sessions planned on the latest regulatory and...
A.M. Best Rates CAP-MPT ‘Excellent’ for 4th Straight Year
Jul 18 2002 // The A.M. Best Company has again assigned a rating of “A” (Excellent) to the Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc.-Mutual Protection Trust (CAP-MPT), a provider of medical professional liability protection...
New Market: Miscellaneous E&O
Jul 10 2002 // Cascade/Amstar has available a program for miscellaneous E&O including service and technical professional liability. Available are many custom forms designed specifically for particular businesses. E&O form with...
As Hard Market Persists, E&S Brokers Wait For The Right Opportunity
Jul 8 2002 // Last January separate panels of analysts who follow the insurance industry and CEO’s of insurance companies predicted a “foreshortened” cycle, a brief hard market that would give insurers little relief...
IIAT in the Swing of Things with New President, Officers
Jul 8 2002 // Juneau Takes Office At the 105th Annual Convention of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) held June 13-14, in Houston, one of the most heavily attended in recent years, André P. Juneau of Frost Insurance...
Miscellaneous E&O
Jul 8 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Cascade/Amstar has available a program for miscellaneous E&O including service and technical professional liability. Available are many custom forms designed specifically for particular businesses....
American Physicians Assurance Leaving Fla. Med-Mal Market
Jun 26 2002 // American Physicians Assurance Corporation (APA), a subsidiary of East Lansing, Mich.-based American Physicians Capital Inc., has filed notice with the Florida Department of Insurance that it plans to cease writing medical...
Environmental E&O w/Mold
May 13 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Alliance National Insurance Agency Inc. has available a program for environmental E&O w/mold. Available by appointment. Endorsements— additional insured, waiver, hired/non-owned auto. Dollars:...
MIIX Board Names Patricia Costante as Chairman
May 10 2002 // Patricia A. Costante, the President and CEO of New Jersey-base MIIX Group, the troubled medical professional liability insurer, got a well deserved vote of confidence on Thursday when the company’s Board of Directors...
The St. Paul Companies Launches Professional Liability Product
May 10 2002 // The St. Paul companies has introduced St. Paul SelectOne(SM) for Investment Advisers, a professional liability product designed to help protect investment advisers from the risks associated with providing services to their...
Professional Liability
Apr 29 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: International Brokerage & Surplus Lines Inc. is offering a professional liability program that includes coverage for medical liability, architects and engineers, insurance agents E&O, media...
Discrimination and Wrongful Termination
Apr 15 2002 // Although workers’ compensation coverage affords insurance for injuries and disease incurred in the employment relationship, it does not extend to other employment-related claims, such as claims of discrimination or...
Real Estate Agents E&O
Mar 25 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Cascade/Amstar has available a program for Real Estate Agents E&O. Endorsements – Sellers’ E&O Coverage, Construction/Development Coverage, Escrow Agents Coverage, Mortgage...
Misc. Professional Liability
Mar 11 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Travelers Bond added miscellaneous professional liability to its line of executive liability products. This E&O coverage provides professional liability for a wide variety of professional service...
OneBeacon Enters Professional Liability Insurance Market
Feb 7 2002 // OneBeacon Insurance Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd., announced its entrance into the Directors and Officers Liability and Professional Liability insurance markets under the name...
Hartford, S.H. Smith to Offer Law Firm Coverage
Jan 30 2002 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. has teamed with S. H. Smith & Company of West Hartford, Conn., a leading excess and surplus lines insurance broker, managing general agency and program administrator, to...