Latest Executive Risk Headlines

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Jolly To Head Sowers Baccala Executive Risk Division

Feb 5 2008 // Sowers Baccala Insurance Brokerage, an independent wholesale broker domiciled in San Diego County, has hired Eileen Jolly, CPCU, as director of its executive risk division. In her new position, Jolly will be responsible...

How to Beat the Soft Market Blues

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...

Minding Your Business

May 7 2007 // Executive risk exposures producers should knowEvery day, corporate executives are expected to make the perfect business decisions on all issues. Obviously, this does not happen all the time. The best one can truly expect...

Executive risk exposures producers should know

May 7 2007 // Every day, corporate executives are expected to make the perfect business decisions on all issues. Obviously, this does not happen all the time. The best one can truly expect is for the executives to make the best decision...

Executive risk exposures producers should know

May 7 2007 // The true insurance professional will understand that there exists a complex world of executive risk losses that can range from shareholder litigation against the board of directors, human resource related claims, lawsuits...

Miller Joins Hylant Group’s Executive Risk Practice in Mich.

Apr 18 2007 // Doug Miller was recently named vice president in Hylant Group’s Ann Arbor, Mich. office. Miller has almost 20 years of experience in the executive risk field serving Fortune 500, middle market, public, private, and...

Hylant Group Adds Vice President to Ann Arbor Office

Apr 17 2007 // Patrick McDaniel has joined Hylant Group as a vice president in the firm’s Ann Arbor, Mich., office. McDaniel will be an integral part of the firm’s Executive Risk Practice, which specializes in...

It’s not their father’s E&O policy anymore

Mar 6 2006 // Owners of mid-size companies used to make relatively easy, straightforward decisions on what types of insurance to buy. They would purchase property insurance for the buildings; liability for the autos, premises and...

Today’s service firms must look beyond their father’s E&O

Mar 6 2006 // Owners of mid-size companies used to make relatively easy, straightforward decisions on what types of insurance to buy from their local agent. The owners would purchase property insurance for the buildings; liability for...

Fiduciary Liability: Obtaining Effective Insurance

Feb 21 2005 // As discussed in part one of this series in the Feb. 7 issue (page 34), fiduciary liability is one of the most misunderstood of management exposures. However, once one grasps the concept of personal liability embedded in...

Sills at Target Markets: Success Lies in ‘Loose Bricks,’ Treating People Right

Jan 5 2005 // The way Stephen Sills sees it, insurance professionals should be glad they are not in the toothpaste business where it’s hard to improve on the product.“In the insurance industry there is always room for...

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...

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...

‘Middle Market’ Not Immune to Directors & Officers Worries

Jul 19 2004 // The Enron, Adelphia, Global Crossing and WorldCom corporate governance and fraud scandals of 2001 and 2002 may seem like a distant and terrible memory, but the public received some harsh reminders recently. Former Enron...

Commercial Buyers Report Hard Market May Be Softening; Recent Jumps Subside in Q3

Nov 5 2003 // Commercial insurance buyers say the skyrocketing increases in costs of many insurance policies showed signs of stabilizing in the third quarter, according to the RIMS Benchmark Survey, an industry survey of market...

Travelers Bond Enhances Fiduciary Liability PLUS+ Policy

Aug 21 2003 // Travelers Bond, a division of Travelers Property Casualty Corp., has extended its fiduciary liability policies to provide a sublimit of coverage for civil fines and penalties assessed under the Health Insurance Portability...

Calif. Court of Appeals Overturns E&O Decision

Dec 3 2002 // In a significant victory for insurance agents and brokers, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court decision that had permitted an E&O insurer to deny coverage to an insurance broker by...

CNA Launches Specialty D&O and Fiduciary Liability Lines

Sep 10 2002 // Schinnerer & Company Inc. of Chevy Chase, Md. is now offering liability coverage to architects, engineers, land surveyors, landscape architects and specialty consultants through CNA’s E-Pack. With this newest...

Great American Offers Stand-Alone Fiduciary Liability Protection

Apr 3 2001 // Great American Insurance Co.’s Executive Liability Division is offering fiduciary liability coverage within its ExecPro series of products.The progressive language of Great American’s ExecPro Fiduciary...

RLI Launches Online Fiduciary Liability Program

Nov 2 2000 // RLI Insurance Co. has unveiled an Internet-based fiduciary liability program called eFiduciary. The program allows producers to obtain a premium indication within 60 seconds, then bind and print policies. The program is...