Latest Professional Liability Headlines

All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Markel Corporation Hires Lecci as Senior Director of Professional Liability in New York

Aug 12 2019 // Markel Corporation has named John Lecci as senior director of Professional Liability. He will be heading up the New York-based US Professional Errors & Omissions team.Lecci was most recently employed by Axis, where he...

Chubb Launches Combined Product for Professional Service Firms

Aug 12 2019 // Chubb has introduced a new offering designed to help professional service firms mitigate a variety of exposures that can impact their businesses.The new Pro ERM offering combines miscellaneous professional liability, media...

RSG MGA EmergIn Risk Enhances Agent, Broker E&O Program

Aug 8 2019 // EmergIn Risk, part of the Ryan Specialty Group family and a division of RSG Underwriting Managers, has expanded its insurance agents and brokers professional liability program, [In]fuse to include new coverage and less...

U.S. Risk Acquires Houston’s U.S. E&O Brokers

Aug 5 2019 // Dallas-based property/casualty insurance wholesaler and managing general agent (MGA), U.S. Risk LLC, has acquired U.S. E&O Brokers (U.S. E&O), a wholesale broker and MGA.U.S. E&O is headquartered in Houston,...

People

Aug 5 2019 // The Vertafore technology users network, NetVU, has named Linda Dodson as executive director. Dodson’s career has included work in an insurance agency and with agency carriers. She began her insurance career with Rand...

Nexus Buys Specialist Financial and Professional Lines MGA, Plus Risk Ltd.

Jul 29 2019 // Independent specialty managing general agent Nexus Group has acquired Plus Risk Ltd. (PRL), a London-based financial and professional lines MGA, providing management liability and niche professional indemnity...

Risk Placement Services Expands Lawyers Liability Program to New York, Texas

Jul 19 2019 // Rolling Meadows, Illinois-based Risk Placement Services (RPS) has expanded its exclusive admitted lawyers professional liability program into New York and Texas, states considered to have the largest number of attorneys in...

How ‘You Have a Duty to Read Your Policy’ Language Can Wreck a Life

Jul 1 2019 // I have seen and heard seemingly an infinite number of agents, agents’ associations, and errors and omissions (E&O) attorneys advise that agents should have a low standard of care and rely on the insured having...

Career Sense: Reverse, Prioritize, Partner, Attack

Jun 17 2019 // Gone are the days of insurers and brokers offering multiline and multi-divisional training to their new staff.People entering the workforce today will start their careers with an insurance carrier or brokerage firm within...

ISMIE Mutual OK’d Offer Medical Professional Liability Coverage in Texas

Jun 7 2019 // Medical professional liability insurer, ISMIE Mutual Insurance Co., has been approved as an admitted carrier in Texas.The company said Texas regulators have approved its rate and forms filing, so ISMIE is now able to offer...

Beazley Updates MediaTech Policy with E&O, Cyber Coverage

Jun 6 2019 // Specialist insurer Beazley has streamlined its MediaTech insurance policy to provide clear and concise wording and combined comprehensive errors and omissions (E&O) and media liability insurance with cyber...

Everest Insurance Adds Three Members to Its Professional Liability Group

Jun 5 2019 // Everest Insurance has added three members to its Professional Liability group. This segment within the Everest Insurance Financial Lines unit provides coverage for architects and engineers, lawyers, accountants as well as...

Argo Pro Launches Private Company Management Liability Product

Jun 4 2019 // Argo Pro, a member of Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd., has released Private Company PROtect – a packaged professional liability product designed to give private companies access to a range of coverage, including...

Lawyers Professional Liability Insurance Claims Grow in Severity, Complexity, Cost

May 31 2019 // The number of legal malpractice claims resulting in larger multimillion dollar payouts – as well as the dollar amounts involved – has surged in the past year, with at least two settlements exceeding $250...

Sompo International Taps Pützer from Amlin as Head of Financial Lines in Germany

May 21 2019 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty re/insurance, announced that Udo Pützer has joined the company’s European insurance platform as head of Financial Lines...

Cyber Confusion: What’s Needed to Create a Sustainable Cyber Market

May 20 2019 // There has been plenty of talk about how cyber continues to evolve in an ever-changing technology landscape, how cyber risks have become increasingly sophisticated and how the insurance industry needs to keep...

CorRisk Solutions Hires Belvedere to Professional Liability Team in New York

May 15 2019 // CorRisk Solutions has hired Donna A. Belvedere to lead its professional liability team.In this role, Belvedere will be based at CorRisk Solutions’ headquarters in Melville, N.Y. She joins CorRisk with more than three...

Driggers to Lead J.M. Wilson Florida Branch

May 15 2019 // J.M. Wilson has added Keith Driggers as branch manager of its newly renamed Hollywood, Fla., office.Located at 5555 Hollywood Blvd, Ste. 200, the former “Enright & Wilson” office became an official J.M....

The Need for Agents (to Do Their Jobs)

May 6 2019 // I received a nice notice from my commercial GL carrier advising the coverages at renewal would materially change. Admitted carriers have to provide such notices (E&O point: exceptions to this rule do exist, even for...

Everest Launches Lawyers Professional Liability Policy

Apr 23 2019 // Everest Insurance has released a new lawyers professional liability policy – Everest Elevation – designed to provide law firms with liability coverage for financial loss suffered by third parties arising from acts,...