All the headlines from our Directors Officers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 16 2011 // Risk and Insurance Management Society’s latest survey found average renewal premium rates rising in three out of the four business lines it tracked.This “strongly suggests” that an eight-year period of...
Nov 14 2011 // Just days after the collapse of MF Global, a healthcare plaintiffs’ lawyer registered the domain mfglobal-lawsuit.com — a sign of the legal business the brokerage’s failure is expected to generate.Timothy...
Oct 3 2011 // Two developments in the marine market have combined to create a tantalizing opportunity for wholesale brokers and managing general agents (MGAs) to serve the marine marketplace. While marine revenues remain fairly flat,...
Sep 27 2011 // Liberty International Underwriters in Europe (LIU Europe), a member of Liberty Mutual Group, has appointed Guy Williams as Head of Directors & Officers and Financial Institutions (D&O/FI).He is an experienced...
Sep 6 2011 // Insurance Noodle, part of Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, has added has added the management and professional liability products of ACE Commercial Risk Services to the offerings of its online quoting...
Aug 1 2011 // Housing and Recovery“Ensuring that residents, and especially families, have access to adequate, affordable housing is a critical part of that recovery process.” —Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, announcing plans to...
Aug 1 2011 // With executives from News Corp., the media giant owned by Rupert Murdoch, and some of its subsidiaries heading for the exits, legal bills from the phone-hacking scandal rocking the company are no doubt stacking up. But...
Jul 20 2011 // With executives from News Corp. and some of its subsidiaries heading for the exits, legal bills from the phone-hacking scandal rocking the company are no doubt stacking up.But depending on the companies’ directors...
Jul 12 2011 // Marsh has created a new form of insurance protection designed to provide coverage for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations.Developed by Marsh’s Financial and Professional Liability Practice (FINPRO),...
Jul 11 2011 // Reacting to the recent spate of major natural catastrophes, insurers are being more selective in the capital they deploy and have in some cases withdrawn from catastrophe affected regions and loss-making sectors of...
Jun 23 2011 // A bulletin from the Insurance Information Institute notes that a recent Casualty Actuarial Society seminar advises actuaries that when it comes to pricing global reinsurance business, it’s important to remember that...
Jun 8 2011 // Lloyd’s insurer Marketform announced that Directors’ and Officers’ liability underwriter Alexis Bowden has joined the company. She spent 11 years underwriting D&O at ACE European Group prior to...
May 20 2011 // Willis has responded to the “increasingly challenging” regulatory environment in the UK by introducing an enhanced professional liability product with the acronym DARCSTAR, which stands for Directors’ All...
May 4 2011 // The London office of Liberty International Underwriters in Europe (LIU Europe), a member of Liberty Mutual Group, announced that it is organizing a charity football match at Charlton Athletic’s Valley ground on...
Apr 25 2011 // To provide additional cover to executives and directors at financial companies, whose personal assets are now at greater risk as a result of expanded Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) authority, Marsh has created a...
Apr 4 2011 // Giant Berkshire Hathaway, which makes much of its money on insurance and investing insurance premiums, does not provide liability insurance for its own directors.Warren Buffett, the 80-year-old chairman of Berkshire...
Apr 4 2011 // If a lawsuit filed on Feb. 7, 2011, in the Northern District of Georgia is any indication, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s (FDIC) efforts to pursue liability claims will not only include suits against the...
Apr 4 2011 // If a lawsuit filed on Feb. 7, 2011 in the Northern District of Georgia is any indication, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s (FDIC) efforts to pursue liability claims will not only include suits against the...
Apr 4 2011 // If a lawsuit filed on Feb. 7, 2011, in the Northern District of Georgia is any indication, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s (FDIC) efforts to pursue liability claims will not only include suits against the...
Apr 4 2011 // If a lawsuit filed on Feb. 7, 2011, in the Northern District of Georgia is any indication, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s (FDIC) efforts to pursue liability claims will not only include suits against the...