Latest Professional Liability Headlines

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BHSI Creates Excess Integrated Follow Form for Contractors

Nov 6 2017 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has unveiled the Excess Integrated Follow Form, a single excess policy that sits atop multiple first- and third-party insurance policies, for contractors in the U.S. and...

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Nov 6 2017 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Worldwide Facilities has named Cameron Kelly its chief operating officer.Kelly will be responsible for managing the company’s production offices, compliance, and acquisition integration. He...

CMI in California Names Witherspoon Lawyers Professional Liability Leader

Nov 2 2017 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Cooper & McCloskey Inc. Insurance Brokers has named Jack Witherspoon the lawyers professional liability team leader. Witherspoon will be responsible for leading and managing the CMI LPL...

QBE North America Forms Alliance with MGA Professional Risk Facilities

Nov 1 2017 // QBE North America, an operating division of QBE Insurance Group Ltd., announced a strategic program underwriting alliance with managing general agent Professional Risk Facilities (PRF), designed to offer coverage for...

Summerville to Head Swiss Re Casualty, Financial and Professional Services for North America

Oct 31 2017 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has appointed Jeff Summerville as head of Casualty, Financial & Professional Services North America, effective immediately. Summerville will oversee the North American Casualty business in...

AssuredPartners Acquires New Jersey’s Synergy Professional Associates

Oct 31 2017 // AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired Synergy Professional Associates of Fairfield, N.J. Synergy is a managing general agent and wholesale insurance intermediary devoted to professional liability and program development.It was...

Founders Professional Adds Kodikian to New San Francisco Office

Oct 24 2017 // Founders Professional has named Raffi Kodikian to the role of lawyers professional liability practice leader, marking the brokerage’s first West Coast hire. Kodikian will focus on the placement of lawyer’s...

Zurich’s Mulligan to Lead Aon Benfield’s U.S. Cyber Practice Group

Oct 20 2017 // Reinsurance intermediary Aon Benfield has appointed Catherine Mulligan as managing director and U.S. Cyber Practice Group leader.Mulligan brings underwriting, policy form and product knowledge to Aon’s cyber...

Massachusetts’ Morrison Mahoney Elects Six New Partners

Oct 20 2017 // Morrison Mahoney LLP, a Boston, Mass.-headquartered law firm, has announced the election of six new partners.The partners represent a range of practice areas including appeals, insurance coverage, construction litigation,...

Ironshore Hong Kong Offers Legal Event Expense Cover in Hong Kong Market

Oct 18 2017 // Ironshore Hong Kong has introduced a specialty professional lines product that offers protection for after-the-event legal expenses following commercial litigation.Ironshore’s After-the-Event Legal Expenses product...

INSUREtrust of Georgia Promotes Tschetter to Professional Lines Broker

Oct 16 2017 // INSUREtrust has promoted Will Tschetter to Professional Lines broker.In his new role, Tschetter will specifically focus on new broker production, and will be brokering cyber insurance, technology errors and omissions...

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Oct 2 2017 // Former Florida State Senator John M. McKay has been appointed to the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation Board of Governors by Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, according to an announcement from the Florida...

XL Catlin Adds EPLI, Cyber Coverage for Design Professionals in Canada

Sep 20 2017 // XL Catlin has added two optional coverages to its professional liability insurance for architects, engineers and other design businesses in Canada: employment practices liability (EPL) Insurance and cyber insurance...

After the Storm: Insurance Agents E&O Lessons Learned

Sep 20 2017 // Editor’s Note: This is a republication of a January, 2013 article by Sally Coombs, who was then with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co, which is now integrated into Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty...

Agency E&O in a Disaster: How to Avoid Errors While Helping Insureds

Sep 20 2017 // Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance announced an exclusive online discussion called “After the Storm: Preventing Agent E&O Claims in a Disaster” to be held on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017 at 1:30...

Markel Enhances Professional Liability Coverage for Hard-to-Place Law Firms

Sep 19 2017 // Markel Corporation has enhanced its policy form and protections for hard-to-insure law firms which can no longer secure coverage in the admitted markets.This coverage is available on an excess and surplus (E&S) lines...

Berkley to Offer Per Project Primary Limits for Design Firms

Sep 18 2017 // Berkley Design Professional (Berkley DP), a division of Berkley Alliance Managers, a Berkley Company, has enhanced its coverage for the architects & engineers professional liability segment with a new “Per...

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Sep 18 2017 // Marsh has named Lou Ann Layton as its Southeast Zone leader. In this role, Layton is responsible for client initiatives, new business and talent development across the District of Columbia and eight states: Florida,...

INSUREtrust Adds Hoeflinger as Professional Lines Broker in Atlanta

Sep 15 2017 // INSUREtrust has added Hannah Hoeflinger to the company as Professional Lines broker.In this role, Hoeflinger will further grow INSUREtrust’s multi-city Cyber Boot Camps, build broker relations, and manage cyber,...

New Construction Coverage From Liberty Mutual, Ironshore Targets Integrated Projects

Sep 14 2017 // Liberty Mutual and Ironshore’s dedicated construction practices have introduced an Integrated Primary Wrap Up/Project Specific program offering general liability (GL) and professional liability (PL) protection for...