All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 2 2015 // Doctors and lawyers are taking up more space in the surplus lines professional liability (PL) markets, with growth and consolidation in the healthcare industry and real estate concerns among the legal field fostering...
Oct 23 2015 // Kevin Koehler has joined OneBeacon Insurance Group as president of its new Financial Institutions business unit.In this new role, Koehler will lead a specialty team focused on professional liability, management liability...
Oct 23 2015 // Insurance wholesaler, Founders Professional, has added Ryan Roth as a professional liability broker in the company’s new downtown Chicago office. Roth has nearly 10 years of professional liability experience. Prior...
Oct 21 2015 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has added new leadership to its Executive & Professional Lines as part of the company’s expansion of its dedicated underwriting capabilities in the U.S. According to...
Oct 21 2015 // NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company is now offering medical professional liability insurance to physicians and health care professionals in Arizona. This is the twelfth state to come under the parent company’s umbrella...
Oct 19 2015 // Ask errors and omissions (E&O) carriers about their results when dealing with commercial lines shops and most, if not all, would comment that heavy commercial lines agencies definitely generate their share of E&O...
Oct 14 2015 // IronHealth, the specialty healthcare unit of Ironshore Inc., has introduced its “LeadingEdge” policy for hospitals and integrated health care systems. IronHealth has developed the policy in response to the...
Oct 9 2015 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has launched two policies providing cyber liability and breach response coverage with risk management resources, the Professional First Network Security & Privacy Policy...
Oct 6 2015 // Irving, TX, October 6, 2015 – B2-USA, a leading insurance information and technology firm specializing in configurable policy administration applications, and Wipfli LLP, one of the leading consulting firms in the...
Oct 6 2015 // QBE North America and Jorgensen & Co., a specialist professional liability managing general underwriter, have formed an underwriting agreement to provide accountants and consultants professional liability insurance...
Oct 6 2015 // Allied World North America has introduced an updated policy for insurance agents and brokers with expanded definitions and coverage.According to Al Fantuzzi, senior vice president of the North American E&O Division at...
Oct 5 2015 // Surplus lines insurer General Star announced it is combining its contract Property/Casualty and Errors & Omissions divisions into a new delegated business division under the leadership of Matt Brown. The new division...
Oct 5 2015 // Markel Global Insurance, a division of Markel Corporation, has launched new product offerings and leadership for captive agents and securities broker-dealers coverage.The captive agents product covers the professional...
Oct 5 2015 // On Aug. 5, 2015 an environmental contractor acting under the EPA’s authority breached a bulkhead at the entrance to the Gold King Mine in Southwestern Colorado. As a result, 3 million gallons of heavy metal laced...
Sep 29 2015 // The medical professional liability insurance market continued its years-long decline in 2014 in terms of net written premium volume, hammered by forces including worsening accident-year results and a rapidly evolving...
Sep 23 2015 // John Iannotti has joined OneBeacon Insurance Group as president of Professional Liability. Iannotti will oversee OneBeacon’s financial services, management liability and design professional liability business units,...
Sep 9 2015 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property/casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, hired Jeff Connelly as senior vice president/client executive in EPIC’s Greyling Insurance...
Sep 8 2015 // ACE Limited today revealed the leadership teams for the company’s North American business units, including national accounts, middle market, small commercial, high net worth personal lines, wholesale/excess and...
Aug 25 2015 // ANV Underwriters, the international managing general underwriter (MGU) segment of global specialty insurance group ANV, has appointed Christina Lippert as professional lines underwriting manager for Europe.Based in...
Aug 20 2015 // ACE Commercial Risk Services (ACE CRS) announced several new products that expand its suite of specialty commercial products for small businesses.The products are available through ACE Solutions Fast Track, an online small...