Latest Professional Liability Headlines

All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Contractors Program

Aug 23 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...

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...

The Ins and Outs of Errors and Omissions Insurance

Aug 23 2004 // Almost all agents have clients with errors and omissions (E&O) exposure and the most difficult job the agent may have is convincing the client that they have the exposure. After 20 years of selling...

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...