All the headlines from our Directors Officers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...