All the headlines from our Directors Officers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 17 2001 // A recent report in Lloyd’s List states that the number and severity of claims against directors and officers has been rising, and concludes that greater surveillance of corporate governance is leading to more legal...
Nov 19 2001 // As recession looms and claims costs associated with the terrorist attacks on September 11 add up, insurance markets are beginning to harden for the first time in nearly a decade. Many major property and casualty carriers,...
Nov 12 2001 // Directors and Officers liability, commonly known as D&O, is a complicated type of risk. While it covers corporate activities, a corporation is a legal person, as are the directors and officers...
Nov 7 2001 // Navigators Management Company, a subsidiary of The Navigators Group Inc., has formed a new division, Navigators Pro, specializing in D&O and professional liability. The financial insurance products include directors...
Nov 5 2001 // Directors and Officers liability, commonly known as D&O, is a complicated type of risk. While it covers corporate activities, a corporation is a legal person, as are the directors and officers...
Oct 8 2001 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies introduces Protection for Community Association Leaders(SM), an insurance policy designed to meet the unique directors and officers (D&O) liability, employment practices...
Sep 17 2001 // Although Directors’ and Officers’ liability insurance (D&O) often is associated with large for-profit companies, they are not the only ones that need it. Many people hold the common misperception that...
Sep 11 2001 // Conseco Inc. is suing six of its own insurers, claiming they are attempting to dodge legitimate potential claims on directors and officers policies bought by the Indianapolis-based insurer.In its annual 10-Q filing with...
Aug 14 2001 // ePolicy.com Insurance Services Inc. announced the launch of its nonprofit directors and officers (D&O) liability product, which the company states is the first in the industry allowing a nonprofit organization to...
Dec 8 2000 // Pine Street Management Company, a unit of Swett & Crawford Group Inc., promoted founding underwriter Luis Roman from president to chairman and named insurance industry veteran William Morris as president. Roman, who...
Oct 30 2000 // Hopefully D&O policyholders have been putting some premium away for a rainy day, because it has started to drizzle and thunderstorms are just around the corner. The end of the soft market is in sight.The last...
Jul 24 2000 // Volunteers—without them, most nonprofit organizations would not exist. They are the common soil in which most mainstream nonprofits are planted, providing services in countless different areas.Yet although...
Jul 7 2000 // The Hartford Financial Services Group and Reliance Group Holdings have signed a definitive agreement to purchase Reliance’s financial products and the majority of its excess and surplus line. The Hartford announced...
May 29 2000 // Volunteers-without them, most nonprofit organizations would not exist. They are the common soil in which most mainstream nonprofits are planted, providing services in countless different areas.Yet although...
May 2 2000 // ABD Insurance and Financial Services now ranks as the third largest U.S. broker of D&O liability insurance, according to the 1999 Annual Tillinghast-Towers Perrin Survey.As one of the nation’s premier D&O...
May 1 2000 // Along with the skyrocketing merger and acquisition activity during recent years, has come a general, albeit not unanimous, perception of a corresponding increase in M&A-related lawsuits-especially in...
Feb 3 2000 // The average size of a shareholder directors & officers (D&O) liability claim award rose to $8.67 million, the highest ever, but overall pricing still declined for D&O liability insurance for the fourth...