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ACE Europe Offers Online Environmental Cover

Apr 30 2007 // ACE European Group announced from its London office that its Commercial Premises Pollution Liability (PPL) product is available online via its fully automated e-commerce platform – ACE Online.ACE said it is...

New Chubb D&O Form Addresses Trends Outside the U.S.

Apr 30 2007 // In response to changes in insurance regulations and more stringent corporate governance requirements worldwide, the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has introduced a Difference in Limits/Difference in Conditions...

D&O, Workers’ Comp Lead Downhill Pricing Parade, According to RIMS

Apr 30 2007 // Directors and officers insurance continues to be a highly competitive line. In the first quarter of 2007, D&O prices decreased by 7.7 percent and by more than 12 percent in the last two quarters of 2006 combined,...

Navigators Pro Enhances D&O for Companies Offering Securities

Apr 26 2007 // Navigators Pro has enhanced its primary directors and officers liability policy for publicly traded corporations offering securities in the event of a securities class action lawsuit with the Offering InNAVation...

Globalization of directors and officers coverage

Apr 23 2007 // International business expansions deliver new exposures, new concernsGlobalization of directors and officers (D&O) liability products has opened up a whole new world of “what ifs” and “spiraling...

Insider Trading Plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?

Apr 23 2007 // For several years, directors and officers underwriters have viewed corporate insiders’ adoption of so-called “Rule 10b5-1 plans” as evidence of good corporate governance and as a positive underwriting...

Globalization of directors and officers coverage

Apr 23 2007 // Globalization of directors and officers (D&O) liability products has opened up a whole new world of “what ifs” and “spiraling concerns” for the insurance industry. For starters, insurers,...

Top 10 myths of D&O liability insurance

Apr 9 2007 // In today’s soft directors and officers market, the importance of a long term approach can often be lost in the process of securing coverage. However, history has proven in the past 15-plus years that the D&O...

Top 10 myths of D&O liability insurance

Apr 9 2007 // In today’s soft directors and officers market, the importance of a long term approach can often be lost in the process of securing coverage. However, history has proven in the past 15-plus years that the D&O...

PLUS, CPCU To Host D&O Seminar in San Francisco on April 11

Mar 27 2007 // The Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) of Northern California and the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Society (CPCU) Golden Gate Chapter will present their first joint program, “Directors and...

Top 10 myths of D&O liability insurance

Mar 26 2007 // Squelching frequent misconceptions of this valuable protection.In today’s soft directors and officers market, the importance of a long term approach can often be lost in the process of securing coverage. However,...

Recent “opt-out” settlements challenge D&O severity, limits assumptions

Mar 26 2007 // A recent wave of individual institutional investor securities lawsuit “opt-out” settlements is raising troubling new questions about both D&O carriers’ claims severity assumptions and D&O...

Recent “opt-out” settlements challenge D&O severity, limits assumptions

Mar 26 2007 // A recent wave of individual institutional in-vestor securities lawsuit “opt-out” settlements is raising troubling new questions about both D&O carriers’ claims severity assumptions and D&O...

Top 10 myths of D&O liability insurance

Mar 26 2007 // In today’s soft directors and officers market, the importance of a long term approach can often be lost in the process of securing coverage. However, history has proven in the past 15-plus years that the D&O...

Recent “opt-out” settlements challenge D&O severity, limits assumptions

Mar 26 2007 // A recent wave of individual institutional in-vestor securities lawsuit “opt-out” settlements is raising troubling new questions about both D&O carriers’ claims severity assumptions and D&O...

Should D&O insurers have a loss prevention role?

Mar 12 2007 // Why don’t directors and officers insurers insist on corporate governance reform from their insureds as a precondition of coverage, the way property and workers’ compensation insurers condition their coverage on...

Marsh Sees ‘Demand Surge’ in Romania’s Compulsory D&O Law

Mar 2 2007 // “Changes to Romanian corporate law, making it compulsory for companies to purchase directors’ & officers’ liability insurance (D&O), are creating a surge in demand for cover,” according to...

Declarations

Feb 26 2007 // Stellar statistic “This is the most remarkable statistic of all. The combined ratio we estimate to be about 94 for the year. That would be the best result since 1955.”— Dr. Robert Hartwig, president and...

Corporate governance, capital drive D&O liability prices down

Feb 26 2007 // Changing corporate governance practices and excess capital in the insurance market have made directors’ and officers’ liability premiums drop in recent years, and rate level erosion in almost every line of...

Should D&O insurers have a loss prevention role?

Feb 26 2007 // Why don’t directors and officers insurers insist on corporate governance reform from their insureds as a precondition of coverage, the way property and workers’ compensation insurers condition their coverage on...