architects & engineers News

BHSI Launches A&E Professional Liability Policy with Cyber Insurance

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has introduced Professional First architects & engineers (A&E) professional liability insurance in the U.S. The new policy’s cyber coverage addresses media, technology and network security and privacy liability exposures, including the design professional’s own costs …

LIU Designs New Policy for Architects & Engineers With Data Breach Coverage

Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, has launched LIU Design and Data Insure, a new architects & engineers policy. The enhanced policy offers insurance and risk management services to help protect design firms from wrongful acts incurred …

XL Catlin Enhances Professional Liability Insurance for Small A&E Firms

XL Catlin’s design professional insurance business has increased the limits of its smartADVANTAGE professional liability insurance policy and improved policy terms for architectural and engineering firms in the U.S. with annual fees of $2 million or less. The smartADVANTAGE policy …

XL Catlin Expands Architects & Engineers Product to Cover Drones, Technology Risks

XL Catlin’s Design Professional insurance business has enhanced its professional liability insurance for architects and engineers (A&E) as well as other design professionals. XL Catlin’s newest Design Professional insurance enhancements include: Professional liability protection for a firm’s use of drones …

General Star Expands Architects & Engineers Program to Maryland, Virginia

General Star has expanded its admitted architects and engineers professional liability coverage to Maryland and Virginia. Entering the eighth year of the A&E program, Maryland and Virginia join New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia as …

General Star Expands Admitted Architects & Engineer Coverage to 3 Southeast States

General Star has expanded its Architects and Engineers Professional Liability program on an admitted basis in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. These three states join New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania as territories in which admitted paper is obtainable. …

Schinnerer Unveils New Architects & Engineers Professional Liability Form

Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, an underwriting manager, has launched a new professional liability policy form for design professionals. The new form includes a variety of policy enhancements for large, mid-size, and small architecture, engineering, surveying, and design consultant clients. …

Premiums, Claims Severity on Rise in Architects & Engineers Market: Survey

For the third consecutive year, most insurers providing professional liability insurance for architects and engineers saw their premium rates increase modestly in 2014, as expectations of larger rate hikes were tempered by steady competition. A new survey by insurance broker …

RSG’s CorRisk Solutions Enhances Architects & Engineers Program for SMEs

CorRisk Solutions, a division of RSG Underwriting Managers, LLC, has made enhancements to its small-to medium-sized enterprise architects and engineers professional liability program. CorRisk Solutions will underwrite, quote and bind new and renewal U.S. broker and agent produced SME architects …

U.S. Risk Pros Launches an Enhanced Professional Liability Program for Architects and Engineers, Construction Managers, and Design/Build Contractors

Dallas, TX – June 9, 2014 – U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc., the eighth largest managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler in the nation, announced that U.S. Risk Pros, the Professional Liability division of U.S. Risk Underwriters has launched …