Latest Directors Officers Headlines

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

Small Business Enhancements

Dec 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. is now offering a package of eight key coverages tailored to the needs of small businesses with enhancements to Chubb’s “ForeFront Portfolio.” The...

Small Business Enhancements

Dec 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. is offering a package of eight key coverages tailored small businesses with enhancements to Chubb’s “ForeFront Portfolio.” The changes include a lower...

Expanded D&O

Dec 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The professional lines insurance operation of XL Insurance added fiduciary liability coverage to its directors and officers policy. The expanded policy, “a-plus D&O,” replaces XL’s...

Small Business Enhancements

Dec 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. is now offering a package of eight key coverages tailored to the needs of small businesses with enhancements to Chubb’s “ForeFront Portfolio.” The...

Expanded D&O

Dec 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The professional lines insurance operation of XL Insurance added fiduciary liability coverage to its directors and officers policy. The expanded policy, known as ‘a-plus D&O,’ replaces...

Philadelphia Insurance Cos. Finalizes Deal to Purchase Fireman’s Fund NDO Renewal Rights

Nov 15 2004 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies has finalized an agreement with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company to purchase the renewal rights on Fireman’s Fund’s non-profit D&O book of business. The agreement is...

D&O Coverage

Nov 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has created Priority Protection, a new D&O product that protects individual directors and officers. Lawsuits are generally filed against the company and...

The Professional Liability Maelstrom

Oct 25 2004 // Service Providers at RiskAs the United States, Europe, Japan and other developed countries turn from industrial-based to service-based economies, more and more people are engaged in providing services, and the more they...

Directors & Officers

Oct 11 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has created Priority Protection, a new D&O product that protects individual directors and officers. Lawsuits are generally filed against the company and...

D&O Coverage

Oct 11 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has created Priority Protection, a new D&O product that protects individual directors and officers. The company said Priority Protection is a highly...

Survey: Increased Stand-Alone A-Side D&O Purchasing

Sep 23 2004 // A recent survey of directors and officers (D&O) insurance buying trends at Fortune 1000 companies shows an increased emphasis on liability insurance designed specifically to protect executives’ personal assets....

Fiduciary Liability: The Most Misunderstood of Management Exposures

Sep 20 2004 // In the early 1960s, life in the United States was lived at a slower pace. Transportation and communication required more time (and patience) and employees were more inclined to trust employers on issues relating to...

The Hartford Unveils New D&O Coverage

Sep 14 2004 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has created Priority Protection, a new D&O product that protects the individual directors and officers.“Directors and officers (D&O) coverage was originally...

Crump Opens National Financial Lines Practice Centered on D&O, Other Lines of Professional Liability

Sep 10 2004 // Crump Insurance Services Inc., a provider of wholesale insurance brokerage services, is launching a national Financial Lines practice to serve the specialty insurance market for management and professional liability. Janet...

CNA’s Revised D&O Product Includes Personal Asset Coverage

Aug 26 2004 // Chicago-based commercial insurer CNA announced a revised product for directors and officers (D&O) to help reduce the risks associated with inadequate protection. CNA said its Individual Solutions policy has been...

Fiduciary Liability: The Most Misunderstood of Management Exposures

Aug 23 2004 // In the early 1960s, life in the United States was lived at a slower pace. Transportation and communication required more time (and patience) and employees were more inclined to trust employers on issues relating to...

Freeburg Joins Noodle Specialty Brokers, Will Underwrite D&O and EPLI

Aug 19 2004 // Chicago-based online wholesaler Noodle Specialty Brokers (NSB) announced that Jonathan Freeburg, 44, has joined the company as a senior underwriter focusing on private company directors’ and officers’ liability...

HCC Subs Assigned ‘AA’ Ratings

Aug 16 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services assigned its “AA” financial strength ratings to American Contractors Indemnity Co. (ACIC) and HCC Reinsurance Co. Ltd. (HCC Re), both subsidiaries of Houston-based...

‘Round and ‘Round the Cycle Goes, Where it Stops Nobody Knows

Aug 9 2004 // Like the wheels of Lance Armstrong’s bike—a blur of perpetual motion as he powered up mountain after mountain in the Tour de France—the non-stop cycle of the property/casualty insurance market continues on its...

A Decade of Improving Club Safety and Coverage

Aug 9 2004 // If you have ever insured or considered insuring golf and country clubs, you know that their risks can’t be classified or managed easily. They have kitchens and restaurants, clubhouses used for daily activities and...