All the headlines from our Directors Officers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Feb 26 2007 // Corporate governance, stockholder activism, pricing discipline, a surprise event to define next D&O cycleThings are about as good as they can get right now in the directors and officers liability environment but that...
Feb 26 2007 // Changes in attitudes, lawsuits, statutes worldwide force global companies to buy locally-admitted D&OA company that acquires a new property in a foreign country will usually review its property and casualty insurance...
Feb 25 2007 // Governor says state is making headway on storm protection9 Ark. auto insurance fraud suspect turns self in Fraud ring allegedly scammed hundreds of thousands of dollars10 New Orleans couple drops suit against AllstateNo...
Feb 25 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...
Feb 25 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...
Feb 25 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...
Feb 25 2007 // Insurers warn against subsidies10 Safeco to cut homeowners, commercial rates 200,000 Calif. customers to benefit, company says10 Ariz. lawmakers move to raise burden of proof on ER suitsIdentical bill vetoed by Gov....
Feb 25 2007 // Things are about as good as they can get right now in the directors and officers liability environment but that doesn’t necessarily comfort D&O brokers and underwriters in this high-profile segment; instead it...
Feb 25 2007 // Even though they may not be compelled by law to buy locally admitted D&O insurance, many companies may find that the global solution they’ve purchased for years is no longer satisfactory.A company that acquires...
Jan 30 2007 // Changing corporate governance practices and excess capital in the insurance market have made directors and officers (D&O) liability premiums drop in recent years, according to Advisen Ltd., a provider of analytics,...
Jan 29 2007 // Shortly after former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling’s Oct. 23, 2006, sentencing, the Enron Task Force said it was closing down, with its mission mostly complete. Yet did that event really signal an endpoint in the Enron...