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New Aon Professional Liability Coverage Available for 300-Plus Small Business Classes

Jun 16 2017 // Aon Affinity, the affinity business of Aon plc, has launched Aon Professional Liability Plus, a nationwide program that provides malpractice insurance to more than 300 classes of traditionally hard-to-place small...

Founders Professional Adds Porter to Florida Team

Jun 13 2017 // National professional liability and management liability wholesale brokerage, Founders Professional, has added Adrienne Porter to its Miscellaneous Professional Liability team.Porter will be joining the team in St....

Goldberg Joins Ryan Specialty Group’s Sapphire Blue in Chicago

Jun 9 2017 // Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) announced that Debra Goldberg has joined RSG’s managing general underwriting company, Sapphire Blue, as chief underwriting officer. Goldberg is based at Sapphire Blue’s headquarters...

MiniCo Launches Miscellaneous Professional Liability Program

Jun 6 2017 // MiniCo Insurance Agency has launched a miscellaneous professional liability insurance program to provide errors and omissions (E&O) coverage for a range of professional service providers.Rick Paladino will manage the...

Dreaming of Selling Your Agency? Here’s How to Avoid Costly Mistakes

Jun 5 2017 // “I’m being bought out!”“We’re merging with an agency five times our size that will take our revenue to a whole new level!” While expressions of excitement like the ones above might be...

A Few E&O Tips to Watch: Certificates, Carrier Ratings and Alternative Markets

Jun 5 2017 // It seems agencies today have more challenges than ever. Below are three tips to reduce errors and omissions (E&O) exposures.I would love to share with you a story regarding a multinational company that demanded they be...

Medical Professional Insurance Market in Good Health for Now: A.M. Best

May 12 2017 // The U.S. medical professional liability (MPL) insurance sector is stable, with strong capitalization and profitable, albeit declining, operating performance, plus the prospect of positive earnings in the medium term,...

Private Firms Lose Privacy When Liability Battles Reach Courtroom

Apr 21 2017 // “It’s like a Kardashian episode.”That outburst from an unidentified person spoke to the fact that private companies can make their affairs very public in bitter courtroom battles over management...

Pioneer Expands Miscellaneous E&O Division with 2 Pennsylvania Appointments

Apr 20 2017 // Pioneer Underwriters (Pioneer) has appointed Milan Devetak as senior underwriter and Andrew Nowlan as underwriter in the Miscellaneous E&O, Technology & Cyber division of its U.S. underwriting platform, Pioneer...

Connecticut’s Business Risk Partners Hires Stein and Rathore

Apr 19 2017 // Specialty underwriter and program administrator Business Risk Partners (BRP), headquartered in Windsor, Conn., has added two new members to its Professional Liability (E&O) and Operations team.Jennifer Stein was named...

Insurance Rates for Architects, Engineers Stabilize or Decline in 2016: Survey

Apr 17 2017 // Although a slim majority of insurance companies providing architects and engineers professional liability insurance saw their rates stabilize in 2016, nearly one in three experienced modest rate decreases, according to a...

Understanding the Needs of the Hybrid Nonprofit Organization

Apr 17 2017 // The nonprofit of yesterday has evolved, and a new, hybrid nonprofit model has emerged, bringing with it an array of complexities.Human services agencies and nonprofits across the country have recognized crucial needs in...

Cyber Losses Testing Insurance Policy Boundaries

Apr 13 2017 // Now that cyber attacks and data breaches have become common, insurers and risk managers are struggling to assign the resulting costs and losses among different types of insurance.On the one hand, there are traditional...

Insurance Rates for Architects, Engineers Stabilize or Decline in 2016: Survey

Apr 7 2017 // Although a slim majority of insurance companies providing architects and engineers professional liability insurance saw their rates stabilize in 2016, nearly one in three experienced modest decreases in rates.That’s...

Pennsylvania’s V3 Insurance Partners Hires 2, Promotes 1

Apr 7 2017 // V3 Insurance Partners LLC (V3), a Newtown, Penn.-based specialty program administrator offering insurance programs targeted at middle market companies, has added two senior executives to its professional lines practice –...

Beazley Forms ‘Anything Lineslip’ for Hard-To-Place Professional Liability Risks

Apr 6 2017 // Beazley has launched the new Anything Lineslip in London offering terms for all U.S. management, professional, cyber and healthcare liability risks.The Anything Lineslip is led by Beazley, supported by a number of other...

Wilson Named National Accounts Director for Big ‘I’ Professional Liability Program

Apr 4 2017 // Marianna Wilson has been hired to serve as professional liability director for national accounts for the Big ‘I’ Advantage program of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America. The organization...

Brokers Beware: Data Breach Lawsuit Without the Breach

Apr 3 2017 // In December 2016, it came to light that the Chicago-based law firm of Johnson & Bell had been sued in a purported class action lawsuit brought in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.The...

Underwriting Profits Now Imperative for Medical Liability Insurers: PLUS Report

Apr 3 2017 // For all the changes in healthcare in the past 10 years, the principal challenges facing medical professional liability (MPL) insurance remain much the same as they did during the crisis in the mid-2000s: a high level of...

The Hanover Launches Professional Liability Risk Management Portal

Mar 27 2017 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has launched a new online portal featuring risk management tools for the professional liability industry.HanoverProRisk offers articles, templates, risk bulletins and seminars focused on...