All the headlines from our Directors Officers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 10 2015 // CapSpecialty has launched a new insurance company directors & officers/employment practices liability (D&O/EPL) product issued by Capitol Specialty Insurance Corp.Insurance company D&O/EPL is a specialty...
Nov 20 2014 // Overall price declines for directors and officers liability insurance programs of publicly traded companies continue to be driven by excess-layer price drops, Aon’s Financial Services Group said in a recent...
Nov 20 2014 // Three of the largest U.S. wholesale firms — CRC, AmWINS Brokerage, and Swett & Crawford — have launched a $25 million public directors and officers insurance program at Lloyd’s of London called the CAS...
Nov 19 2014 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has unveiled its Executive First Side A Difference-in-Conditions (DIC) Directors & Officers Liability Policy, which provides protection for individual directors and...
Nov 19 2014 // Allied World North America has launched the Executive ForceFieldproduct, a policy specifically developed to address coverage gaps for directors and officers of publicly traded companies in the Canadian market.This upgraded...
Oct 31 2014 // Direct premiums written for the directors’ and officers’ liability insurance industry grew 7.35 percent year over year in the first half of 2014, rising to $2.91 billion, according to an SNL Financial analysis...
Oct 24 2014 // As fears of an Ebola pandemic spread, many U.S. businesses are wondering if insurance will cover any complications that may arise.According to experts, the outbreak could potentially impact several insurance lines....
Oct 3 2014 // Dallas, TX, October 3, 2014– Effective October 1, 2014, this new form reflects the growing needs of organizations to address the issues confronting them in the 21st century. Coverage consists of Directors, Officers...
Oct 2 2014 // Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles on the the marijuana insurance industry to appear on InsuranceJournal.com. Upcoming stories will include reports on how medical marijuana could affect the...
Oct 1 2014 // Jeff Kingsley, a partner with the law firm of Goldberg and Segalla, specializes in technology risks, notably cyber liability and cyber risk, an emerging sector with many variables and pit falls for the unwary, which he...
Sep 29 2014 // Allied World North America, a company of Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG has added a new directors & officers (D&O) product to its ForceField suite of professional liability products. The ForceField...
Sep 22 2014 // Citing recent survey results that show widespread unfamiliarity among U.S. businesses with requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Travelers has announced the addition of Healthcare Exchange...
Aug 7 2014 // Bermuda-based Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. announced that it has enhanced its Endurance Premier Professional product with Endurance CyberWrap, which it described as an “additional Side A Directors and Officers...
Jul 11 2014 // Swiss-based Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG announced that it has added Excess D&O coverage to its existing management liability product suite in the Canadian market.The announcement said the “Excess...
Jun 27 2014 // American International Group, Inc. (AIG) insurers have introduced a new policy endorsement that ensures primary directors and officers (D&O) policy funds are immediately available to clients named as defendants in...
Jun 25 2014 // Underwriting manager Victor O. Schinnerer & Co. has launched a private company management liability program. The private company program is offered to a range of eligible industries with up to $1 billion in total...
Jun 20 2014 // ANV Holdings BV, a Dutch specialty insurance business, has opened a U.S. managing general underwriter focused on communications and data security risks for “Main Street” U.S. businesses.Leib Dodell, a veteran...
Jun 18 2014 // ANV Holdings BV, the specialty insurance business, headquartered in the Netherlands, announced the opening of its first U.S. Market Managing General Underwriter (MGU), to be led by Peter McKeegan.ANV said the “team...
May 19 2014 // For years, directors and officers, and entity coverage for privately held firms was one of the best deals going, with broad coverage, cheap pricing and low retentions.Over the past several years, market capacity suppressed...
May 1 2014 // ACE Group has launched ACE 2488 Global D&O, an enhanced global directors & officers (D&O) liability insurance proposition for multinational organizations. Adding Lloyd’s coverage through ACE Syndicate...