Latest Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Md.-Based Victor O. Schinnerer & Co. Names Senior Underwriting Manager
Nov 4 2013 // Chevy Chase, Md.-based underwriting manager Victor O. Schinnerer & Company Inc. has named Steve Cohen as senior underwriting manager for its management liability programs. In his new role, Cohen will oversee the...
E&O Dangers for Agents
Nov 4 2013 // Specializing is one way to get ahead in today’s insurance world. But becoming an expert comes with its own share of risks. Phrases such as “expert” or “specialist” have the potential to raise...
How Health Law Could Affect Medical Professional Liability
Nov 4 2013 // The U.S. medical professional liability (MPL) market has been profitable in recent years, but challenges await MPL insurers because an influx of newly insured patients, coupled with healthcare delivery system changes,...
E&O Insights: What Could Go Wrong When Insuring Habitational?
Nov 4 2013 // Insuring habitational risks has generated more than its fair share of errors and omissions (E&O) claims. While there are a host of issues, consider these specific ones: valuation, ordinance or law coverage and...
Franchise Opportunities
Nov 4 2013 // Can you name an industry that contributes $2 trillion to our country’s gross national product (GNP)? How about an industry that is the fastest-growing and represents one in every 12 businesses that exist today? Or...
ProWriters Launches Small Business Online Quoting Platform
Oct 29 2013 // ProWriters is now providing agents and brokers access to online quoting and binding for small business professional liability insurance with general liability and/or a business owners policy (BOP). Quotes for small...
WKFC Launches Miscellaneous Professional Liability Program
Oct 28 2013 // Ryan Specialty Group’s WKFC has launched a miscellaneous professional liability program with the Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. (Chubb). The miscellaneous professional program is available for more than 100 classes of...
Coverys to Acquire Ohio Medical Professional Liability Insurance Firm
Oct 28 2013 // FinCor Holdings Inc., a member of Coverys which is based in Boston, has agreed to acquire OHA Holdings Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary OHA Insurance Solutions (OHAIS), located in Columbus, Ohio. Coverys provides...
Fireman’s Fund Names Dipasupil Vice President
Oct 24 2013 // Novato, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. named Jay Dipasupil vice president of professional liability. Dipasupil will lead Fireman’s Fund’s professional liability business, and will be...
MagMutual Creates New Captive for Physician Practices, Hospital Systems
Oct 17 2013 // MagMutual Insurance Co., a medical professional liability insurer in the Southeast, has formed OURCell Captive, P.C.C. A wholly owned subsidiary of MagMutual, OURCell Captive provides physician practices and hospital...
Tell Us About Your Agency’s E&O – Take Our Survey Now
Oct 17 2013 // Insurance Journal is again on the search to find out what’s happening in the agency errors and omissions (E&O) environment. The final deadline to participate in this year’s survey is Monday, Oct. 21 We...
Great American, Landy Agency to Offer Professional Liability Insurance
Oct 15 2013 // Great American Insurance Group’s Professional Liability Division has formed an alliance with the Herbert H. Landy Insurance Agency to offer professional liability insurance to real estate agents, brokers, appraisers...
What’s Happening in Agency E&O? Take This Survey to Find Out
Oct 11 2013 // Insurance Journal is again on the search to find out what’s happening in the agency errors and omissions (E&O) environment. We invite you to participate in the 2013 Agency Errors & Omissions Survey, which...
Forecast for 2014 Commercial P/C Pricing: Willis
Oct 9 2013 // Commercial property insurance buyers could see prices fall from 10 to 20 percent on non-catastrophe risks in 2014 thanks to the influx of alternative capital to the insurance industry, insurance and reinsurance broker...
Hanover Insurance Taps Hartford Exec to Lead Professional Liability Unit
Oct 8 2013 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. has named Greg Leffard president of Hanover Professional Portfolio unit, responsible for the company’s errors and omissions (E&O) insurance businesses. Hanover Professional...
E&O Insights: How Well Do You Know Your Accounts?
Oct 7 2013 // Professional liability, or errors and omissions as it is also known, is a unique line of business. After all, how many other lines of business have terms like claims made, claims made and reported, retro dates, tail...
Allied World Asia-Pacific Launches Primary Professional Indemnity Coverage
Oct 4 2013 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG announced that its Asia-Pacific platform has launched “Allied World AgilitySM Primary Professional Indemnity, a new product developed exclusively for the Asia-Pacific...
U.S. Risk, Western World Launch Private D&O, EPL, Fiduciary Liability Program
Oct 3 2013 // U.S. Risk Pro, a division national MGA and surplus lines wholesaler U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc., and Western World Insurance Group have launched a new program for private company directors and officers liability. This...
Burand’s Agency E&O Blog: Tip #48
Oct 2 2013 // Notifying Umbrella Carriers of Potential Claims. Every reader likely knows the importance of notifying an excess/umbrella carrier of potential claims in a timely manner. When the excess/umbrella carrier is the same carrier...
New Hampshire’s Minkler New Chairman of Big ‘I’
Sep 30 2013 // New Hampshire independent agent Thomas J. Minkler has been inaugurated as the new chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”), with David Walker as...
