All the headlines from our Directors Officers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 7 2014 // The ample capacity and competition that helped temper firming of U.S. commercial insurance rates in 2013 is expected to continue into 2014, unless catastrophe losses turn out higher than expected, according to a report by...
Jan 28 2014 // Lloyd’s of London insurers Beazley and Hiscox have partnered to offer brokers and clients a D&O consortium through which the syndicates will provide materially higher limits and offer additional options to...
Jan 27 2014 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has launched Executive First, a directors & officers liability insurance policy designed to address the complex and volatile risks facing directors, officers and their...
Jan 16 2014 // Oracle Corp. can’t rely on an insurer to pay $20 million to help settle shareholder claims over the software maker’s acquisition of a company controlled by Oracle founder Larry Ellison, a judge...
Jan 10 2014 // Attorneys for Oracle Corp. are asking a Delaware judge to order an insurer to pay $20 million to cover attorney fees related to the proposed settlement of a shareholder lawsuit.The lawsuit challenged Oracle’s 2011...
Dec 16 2013 // Health care organizations paid significantly more for their directors and officers liability insurance in the third quarter of 2013 amid growing concerns over antitrust issues arising from implementation of the Affordable...
Nov 22 2013 // Arch Insurance Group, a member of Arch Capital Group Ltd., has launched a new specialized management liability product in the U.S. that features: Arch Essential Side A Side A lead difference in conditions (DIC) Follow form...
Nov 4 2013 // Can you name an industry that contributes $2 trillion to our country’s gross national product (GNP)? How about an industry that is the fastest-growing and represents one in every 12 businesses that exist today? Or...
Oct 30 2013 // ACE Bermuda has launched a new CODA Premier directors and officers liability policy. The CODA Premier policy offers personal asset protection to directors and officers and is available through ACE’s commercial...
Oct 10 2013 // U.S. publicly-traded clients paid 4.9 percent more on average for their primary directors and officers liability (D&O) coverage in the second quarter, according to global broker Marsh.However, Marsh said, when...
Oct 10 2013 // Zurich has introduced a new Side A D&O policy that addresses the evolving litigation landscape and provides coverage for liability exposures in the global marketplace, including China, Brazil, Mexico, Japan and India....
Oct 7 2013 // Insurance coverage disputes have a lot of commonalities. And lawyers who represent both sides of the table — defense and plaintiff — say participants in such disputes should be aware of certain potentially adversarial...
Oct 3 2013 // U.S. Risk Pro, a division national MGA and surplus lines wholesaler U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc., and Western World Insurance Group have launched a new program for private company directors and officers liability. This...
Sep 17 2013 // Hudson Insurance Group and Crum & Forster, both owned by Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., announced a strategic realignment of their directors and officers (D&O) and management liability business.C&F will...
Sep 17 2013 // This year’s Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) litigation over failed financial institutions is already exceeding that of the previous three years. According to a new report by Cornerstone Research —...
Aug 23 2013 // Jeffrey S. Grange has been appointed head of Management Liability and Professional Lines for QBE North America, which plans to launch a directors and officers (D&O) liability division. Grange has 25 years experience in...
Aug 21 2013 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG announced from its headquarters in Switzerland the launch of its Asia-Pacific platform, “the Executive ForceField product to provide a new level of protection for company...
Aug 19 2013 // In today’s legal environment, nearly every company faces some kind of litigation risk. With the growing ubiquity of technology in not just the corporate market, but the consumer marketplace as well, the risk for...
Aug 16 2013 // American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is has increased its global Side A directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance to $100 million.This new capacity from AIG can facilitate the resolution of severe and...
Aug 13 2013 // Endurance Specialty Holdings, a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property/casualty insurance and reinsurance, appointed Fred Cooper as executive vice president and head of U.S. financial institutions insurance, based in...