Latest Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Darwin Expands Data Security Coverage for Health Care Firms
Dec 14 2006 // Specialty insurance underwriter Darwin Professional Underwriters, Inc., is expanding its Tech//404 liability product for health care organizations in response to increasing exposure to network security and data privacy...
Venture Programs’ Latest Offering: Professional and Management Liability
Dec 12 2006 // Venture Insurance Programs of West Chester, Pa., (www.ventureprograms.com), a national program administrator, has launched Venture Professional, a professional and management liability solution featuring Directors &...
Dissecting a claims made policy
Dec 11 2006 // Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a three-part series discussing the anatomy of a claims made policy. Parts II and III will be printed in future issues of Insurance Journal’s West region...
Best-in-class program writers
Dec 11 2006 // Today’s competitive specialty program marketplace requires attention to detail, including efficiency, professionalism and ethics. One way to stand out above the rest is to become a best-in-class program...
Innovations in information technology spur need for up-to-date underwriters
Dec 10 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 business...
Dissecting a claims made policy
Dec 10 2006 // Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a three-part series discussing the anatomy of a claims made policy. Parts II and III will be printed in future issues of Insurance Journal’s West region...
Five keys to captive success
Dec 10 2006 // Whether you’re talking about road contractors or hospitals or agents and brokers, every organization has in-house expertise. And you want to use it. You need to bring members together to share best practices. The...
AMIS Offers Policies for Real Estate Appraisers, Investigators, Adjusters
Dec 7 2006 // San Diego-based AMIS, Alliance Marketing and Insurance Services, has announced it is offering broader package policies for real estate appraisers handling residential and commercial property. This policy is underwritten by...
Mich. First Mercury Hires Senior Vice President, Professional Liability
Dec 5 2006 // Southfield, Mich.-based First Mercury Financial Corp.has announced the hiring of Thomas A. Greene, Jr. as a senior vice president of CoverX. In this newly created position, Greene will be responsible for overseeing and...
Fox Point Programs Offers E&O Product for Security Broker Dealers
Dec 4 2006 // Fox Point Programs based in Wilmington, Del., has partnered with underwriters at Lloyds of London to offer errors and omissions insurance for securities brokers-dealers. The coverage provides protection against allegations...
London American Professional Liability introduces a new Real Estate Agents & Brokers E&O Program
Dec 1 2006 // Fort Lee, New Jersey – London American Professional Liability, LLC (LAPL), a Program Administrator and MGA, introduces a new program for Real Estate Agents and Brokers Errors and Omissions. The program is being...
Contractors Professional Liability Grows, But Buyers Not Always Buying
Nov 21 2006 // The contractors professional liability insurance market is growing, but many contractors who have a professional exposure are not buying coverage, according to a new survey by Ames & Gough, based in Washington, D.C....
Monarch E&S Names Bernstein Director of Professional Lines
Nov 21 2006 // Monarch E&S Insurance Services of La Crescenta, Calif., has appointed Wayne E. Bernstein director of professional lines. He will develop and head up the company’s Executive Liability and Professional Liability...
Hiscox USA Offers Technology E&O
Nov 9 2006 // Hiscox USA, part of the Hiscox Group, a provider of specialty insurance, is now licensed to provide technology errors and omissions (E&O) insurance to U.S. businesses directly from its two New York locations. Neil...
Ohio Quadrant Insurance Managers’ E&O Program Marks 15 Anniversary
Nov 7 2006 // ProSLIP, the insurance wholesaler errors and omissions program is marking its 15th anniversary, according to the written release by Ohio-based Quadrant Insurance Managers. ProSLIP was designed to provide a superior choice...
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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...
Social services agencies need extra care and an agent’s helping hand
Nov 6 2006 // While they may require more attention, nonprofits offer opportunity for growth and profit, says industry specialist Insurance Journal’s Andrea Ortega-Wells, Mogelnicki explains why the nonprofit social services...
