Latest Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Professional Liability in the Medical Arena
Oct 25 2004 // Whether a patient, a health care provider or an insurer, everyone seems to be aware of what is going on in the medical world these days. There is general agreement that health care costs are rising, more people are going...
Professional Liability for Consultants
Oct 25 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: National Union Fire Insurance Co., a member company of AIG, launched a new product designed to address the professional liability exposures of consultants in a variety of industries. The consultants...
Specified Professions E&O
Oct 25 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: NIF Group Inc. introduced a new program for specified professions called “Miscellaneous E&O.” The program will be administered by NIF Professional Liability Risk Solutions, a division of...
Professional Liability for Consultants
Oct 25 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: National Union Fire Ins. Co., a member company of AIG, launched a new product designed to address the professional liability exposures of consultants in a variety of industries. The consultants preferred...
Professional Liability: Will the Cycle Remain Unbroken’
Oct 25 2004 // Some say it’s over—the hard market, that is. Certainly in some areas of professional liability this is true. Many renewal premiums in 2004 are flat, or are even dropping by 10 percent or more. Not withstanding the...
Rockwood Expands E&O Program for P&C Agents
Oct 21 2004 // Rockwood Programs has finalized negotiations with multiple insurance carriers and Lloyds Syndicates to expand its existing Errors & Omissions program for property and casualty agents. This program was designed to...
Ins. Rates for Hospital Professionals, Physicians May Slow in 2005
Oct 13 2004 // The trend of high insurance rates experienced by hospital professionals and physicians over the past three years shows signs of slowing in 2005, according to a study released today by Aon risk services experts. Aon’s...
Professional Liability
Oct 11 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Philadelphia Insurance Cos. is providing accountants with a professional liability policy. Their underwriting flexibility enables them to address the unique exposures that confront accountants. These...
Agents E&O is Focus of IIA San Antonio Luncheon
Oct 8 2004 // Independent Insurance Agents of Texas President Bill Harrison, Jr., is slated to speak on agents’ professional liability issues at the Independent Insurance Agents of San Antonio meeting and luncheon on Oct. 21. IIAT...
Lighthouse Offers New E&O/EPLI Policy for Agents
Oct 5 2004 // The Lighthouse Companies has introduced ProGold, a new professional liability and employment practices liability policy for privately-owned insurance agencies with revenues from $1 million to $15 million. Launched in...
Contractors Program
Sep 20 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Victor O. Schinnerer & Company’s contractors program recently released new 2004 editions of its three policy forms: a stand-alone professional liability policy, a stand-alone pollution...
Surplus Line Carriers
Sep 20 2004 // First Responders Once upon a time, the excess and surplus line market was the safety valve of the insurance industry—the more lightly regulated, more financially shaky little brother to the admitted market. It was said...
Chubb Deploys New Technology for E&O Coverage
Sep 17 2004 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies announced the development of “a new tool to help agents, brokers and their information and network technology clients save time and money when applying for errors and omissions...
Crump Opens National Financial Lines Practice Centered on D&O, Other Lines of Professional Liability
Sep 10 2004 // Crump Insurance Services Inc., a provider of wholesale insurance brokerage services, is launching a national Financial Lines practice to serve the specialty insurance market for management and professional liability. Janet...
AAMGA University Aims Fundamentals Class at Newbies
Sep 6 2004 // Something different was definitely in the air at a seminar put on by the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) last June. As the group of MGAs and wholesale brokers settled in for the introductory dinner...
Maryland Pursues Med-Mal Insurers and Special Legislative Session
Sep 6 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. Meanwhile, the state’s...
E&O for Broker-Dealers
Sep 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: CalSurance launched a specialized errors and omissions program for broker-dealers with 75 or fewer registered representatives. CalSurance and Quanta Specialty Lines Insurance Co. have teamed up to offer...
E&O for Broker-Dealers
Sep 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: CalSurance launched a specialized errors and omissions program for broker-dealers with 75 or fewer registered representatives. CalSurance and Quanta Specialty Lines Ins. Co. have teamed up to offer this...
Professional Liability
Sep 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Philadelphia Ins. Cos. is providing accountants with a professional liability policy. Their underwriting flexibility enables them to address the unique exposures that confront accountants. These policies...
Contractors Program
Sep 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Victor O. Schinnerer & Company’s contractors program recently released new 2004 editions of its three policy forms: a stand-alone professional liability policy, a stand-alone pollution...
