All the headlines from our Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 18 2019 // IAT Insurance Group, a provider of specialty property and casualty products, is expanding its product offerings with the formation of a new Management Liability business unit. The company has hired John Passaro to lead the...
Oct 18 2019 // The Western District of the Missouri Court of Appeals recently issued opinions that effectively strip any practical effect from a Missouri amendment made to provide certain protections to insurers.In Aguilar v. GEICO Cas....
Oct 17 2019 // Castel Specialty, the London-based division of club-style MGA formation platform Castel Underwriting Agencies Ltd., has entered the construction and engineering market, primarily focused on the UK, North America,...
Oct 17 2019 // A bipartisan group of lawmakers is stepping up efforts to have U.S. trade officials eliminate a legal liability shield that tech companies are pushing to keep in new agreements, including a deal to replace the North...
Oct 16 2019 // Getting items on California’s surplus lines export list is no easy task.Just ask Ben McKay, executive director of the Surplus Line Association of California. McKay can recall only a few coverages that have been added...
Oct 16 2019 // A 23-year-old law giving technology companies legal protection from lawsuits over user-generated content remains critical to the internet’s future, Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit and social media site Reddit Inc....
Oct 15 2019 // Electronic cigarettes and vaping have been heralded by many as a safer alternative to smoking traditional cigarettes. A recent outbreak of illnesses allegedly related to vaping, however, has ignited public hysteria and...
Oct 14 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway health care liability insurance unit MedPro Group has agreed to acquire the healthcare professional liability business of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions effective Oct. 11.The agreement includes hospital...
Oct 11 2019 // Parametric earthquake coverage and terrorism coverage are among the potential items on the 2019 Export List hearing being held next month by the California Department of Insurance.Adding a risk or coverage to the export...
Oct 7 2019 // Insurtech Next Insurance has pulled in a $250 million financing round from a single investor: Munich Re.Palo Alto-based Next said it plans to use the Series C cash infusion to scale up its small business insurance products...
Oct 7 2019 // The medical device industry is an expanding market with significant growth forecasted over the next decade. According to KPMG data, global predictions reveal the life sciences sector will grow by more than 5% per year,...
Oct 4 2019 // Berkley Design Professional (Berkley DP), a division of Berkley Alliance Managers, a Berkley Company, now offers per project primary (PPP) limits of $1 million for Berkley DP policyholders. This $1 million limit applies to...
Oct 2 2019 // W.E. Love & Associates, LLC, a subsidiary of XPT Group LLC, has launched a new Platinum Trucking program with Watford Insurance Co. to offer coverages for high-quality, experienced trucking firms that just miss being...
Sep 30 2019 // Helvetia Specialty Lines CH & International announced it will begin writing aviation insurance in October.Helvetia’s aviation team will offer worldwide insurance coverage for passenger liability, third-party...
Sep 25 2019 // After being down, the U.S. directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance sector is looking up. Carriers are raising rates and restoring profitability, according to Fitch Ratings, after several years of flat premium...
Sep 20 2019 // The aviation industry is bracing for double-digit insurance premium hikes for the first time in about 15 years, as insurers wrestle with higher costs from aircraft groundings, including the grounding of Boeing Co.’s...
Sep 17 2019 // Marsh, the insurance broker and risk adviser, announced the appointments of Stephanie Pestorich Manson as chief client officer for Management Liability and head of Directors’ & Officers’ (D&O) Product...
Sep 13 2019 // The commercial general liability line will be the next property/casualty line to harden, the chief executive of W.R. Berkley Corp. predicted at an industry conference.Speaking at the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Insurance...
Sep 12 2019 // Gallagher, a global insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services firm headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Ill., has hired Mike Kambos as its area senior vice president for New York’s Management...
Sep 12 2019 // Apollo Insurance Solutions, a Canadian insurance marketplace, has entered the American market with a liability insurance product tailored for educators in California. The product allows consultants, instructors, and...