Latest Directors Officers Headlines

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Monitor Offers Individual Independent Director Insurance Coverage

Dec 12 2007 // Monitor Liability Managers, Inc. (Monitor), a member company of W. R. Berkley Corp., recently announced the launch of a new Independent Director Lliability (IDL) insurance policy that provides individual protection to...

Chubb Offers New D&O Policy with Board Committee Endorsement

Nov 21 2007 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. has introduced Executive Elite, an excess directors and officers (D&O) liability policy that provides a dedicated limit of liability for directors and officers that is not shared with...

ACE UK Launches ‘Elite’ to Protect Directors & Officers Assets

Nov 16 2007 // ACE UK announced that it has launched “ACE Elite,” which it described as a “portfolio of liability products designed to provide more relevant and appropriate protection in addressing the increased...

Willis Analyzes ‘Subprime Crisis’

Nov 13 2007 // Willis Group Holdings has released an alert from the Company’s Financial Institutions (FI) practice, which looks at the meltdown in the U.S. subprime mortgage industry, which it notes is an “issue that has...

Travelers Expands Directors & Officers Coverage

Nov 6 2007 // Travelers introduced its Advantage 500M for Public Companies, an enhanced directors and officers (D&O) liability policy that is specifically designed to offer more comprehensive coverage for growing public companies...

Small market share insurers file 2.5% decrease

Nov 4 2007 // 10 Mass. caps auto hikes at 10%Because the shooter was in an uninsured car, says N.J. court 12 Driving the transitionAn interview with Mass. Commissioner BurnesN1 Survey reports drop in new lawsuitsActions filed against...

British D&O insurer asks N.Y. court to confirm that former Tyco chief owes $2 million

Nov 4 2007 // A British insurance company has asked a New York state court to confirm an arbitration award that directs imprisoned corporate thief L. Dennis Kozlowski, former head of Tyco International Ltd., to pay nearly $2 million...

Options Backdating: One year later

Nov 4 2007 // A year ago, the emerging stock options backdating scandal was a hot topic, dominating the headlines of the financial pages and commanding the attention of the professional liability industry. The options backdating story...

Options Backdating: One year later

Nov 4 2007 // A year ago, the emerging stock options backdating scandal was a hot topic, dominating the headlines of the financial pages and commanding the attention of the professional liability industry. The options backdating story...

How to Beat the Soft Market Blues

Nov 4 2007 // The market for management liability coverages is soft. Premiums are down, which means revenues are down. Yet there still are tremendous opportunities for proactive agents and brokers to sell the coverages, according to...

10 Calif. DOI partners with CAL FIRE

Nov 4 2007 // Groups aim to prevent fire losses during height of wildfire season10 Hawaii approves 19.3% workers’ comp decrease NCCI recommended 16.8 percent drop10 Calif. approves AAA’s 6.5% auto rate reductionCarrier...

Options Backdating: One year later

Nov 4 2007 // A year ago, the emerging stock options backdating scandal was a hot topic, dominating the headlines of the financial pages and commanding the attention of the professional liability industry. The options backdating story...

D&O underwriters assess the subprime meltdown

Nov 4 2007 // When defaults in U.S. mortgages reached record levels in the second quarter of 2007, forcing a large number of subprime mortgage lenders to shut down or file for bankruptcy, the fallout spread quickly throughout the...

Value analysis in the current D&O market

Nov 4 2007 // Competition in the insurance market is heating up, and as the directors and officers (D&O) market continues to soften, primary carriers are looking for new ways to differentiate themselves and broaden their...

D&O Insurer Asks N.Y. Court to Confirm Tyco Chief Owes $2 MIllion

Oct 17 2007 // A British insurance company has asked a New York state court to confirm an arbitration award that directs imprisoned corporate thief L. Dennis Kozlowski, former head of Tyco International Ltd., to pay nearly $2 million...

D&O, Business Insurance Prices – Except Property – Continue to Drop

Oct 2 2007 // Steady erosion of commercial insurance industry pricing continued during the third quarter of 2007, according to the RIMS Benchmark Survey, a survey of current policy renewal prices as reported by corporate risk...

The subprime mortgage mess and the professional liability insurance industry

Sep 24 2007 // According to the Bank of America, more than $1.3 trillion in adjustable rate mortgages — 70 percent of them subprime — will reset before the end of 2008.The collapse of the subprime mortgage lending industry...

The subprime mortgage mess and the professional liability market

Sep 24 2007 // The collapse of the subprime mortgage lending industry has dominated the headlines, led to turmoil in the credit and financial markets, and left the residential real estate marketplace in disarray. It has already generated...

Making sense of the subprime mortgage mess

Sep 24 2007 // The collapse of the subprime mortgage lending industry has dominated the headlines, led to turmoil in the credit and financial markets, and left the residential real estate marketplace in disarray. It also has already...

The subprime mortgage mess and the professional liability market

Sep 24 2007 // The collapse of the subprime mortgage lending industry has dominated the headlines, led to turmoil in the credit and financial markets, and left the residential real estate marketplace in disarray. It has already generated...