All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 2 2013 // Great American Insurance Group has launched a new professional liability division offering errors and omissions (E&O) liability insurance coverage for non-medical miscellaneous service providers as well as real estate...
Apr 2 2013 // Great American Insurance Group, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, announced the launch of a new professional liability division.This division will offer errors and omissions (E&O) liability insurance coverage for non-medical...
Mar 29 2013 // ProAssurance Corp., a specialty writer of professional liability insurance, and the Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc. (CAP) are partnering to offer a new liability protection product, CAPAssurance, for hospitals and...
Mar 27 2013 // Agency Catastrophe Plans. How to keep a catastrophe from becoming an even bigger catastrophe.I don’t know who said it, but they correctly concluded that the best E&O audit is a natural catastrophe because so many...
Mar 25 2013 // While the industry seemed to see a spike in mergers and acquisitions activity in 2012 due to some tax implications, many are projecting that 2013 will see some healthy buying and selling, too. While there are many issues...
Mar 25 2013 // Insurance Journal examined industries experiencing changes and expansions during the past year. Here are the top 10 market sectors that just might deliver hot opportunities for agents and brokers in the property/casualty...
Mar 20 2013 // Bond Specifications & Company Ratings. Do you check?When commercial clients need a bond, they almost always have a contract that requires the bond meet certain specifications. Among those specifications is the bond be...
Mar 19 2013 // For the second consecutive year, the insurance market for architects and engineers professional liability insurance continued its firming trend as a number of leading insurance companies providing this specialized coverage...
Mar 18 2013 // The Leavitt Group’s Los Angeles office named Amy Evans, James Kelly and Terri Peckinpauch to posts in the agency.Evans is a vice president in the employee benefits division with a focus on middle market clients in...
Mar 15 2013 // NOVATO, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. named Jay Dipasupil to vice president of programs, and Dan Reed to vice president of professional liability.Dipasupil will lead Fireman’s Fund’s programs...
Mar 12 2013 // American Resources Insurance Company (ARIC) has broadened its partnership arrangement with Rockwood Programs. The new relationship provides ARIC’s producer network with access to an array of management and...
Mar 11 2013 // A total of 3,094 medical professional liability claims were closed in 2011 in Ohio, according to data collected by the Ohio Department of Insurance from entities providing medical professional liability coverage to Ohio...
Mar 7 2013 // Minneapolis, Minn.-based medical malpractice insurer, MMIC, announced it has begun conducting business in Indiana. This brings the total number of states in MMIC’s core territory to nine.MMIC President and CEO Bill...
Mar 5 2013 // California-based Heffernan Insurance Brokers recently hired Brian Leidell to join its New York City office as vice president, professional lines practice. Leidell was most recently practicing insurance law for an...
Mar 5 2013 // Miramar, FL, 03/05/13 – “Our goals in creating this department are multifold”, states Corporate COO, Seth Johnson. “First, the creation of this department will help us better serve our customers by...
Mar 4 2013 // A total of 3,094 medical professional liability claims were closed in 2011 in Ohio, according to data collected by the Ohio Department of Insurance from entities providing medical professional liability coverage to Ohio...
Mar 2 2013 // Binder Knowledge. What is a binder?I ask this question of most agency staff and many producers I interview. Less than 10% of staff and probably less than 25% of the producers I interview know what a binder is. An amazing...
Feb 25 2013 // MarketScout Wholesale (MSW) has formed an exclusive independent agents errors & omissions program. In addition to professional liability, this program provides data breach/privacy protection as well as proactive risk...
Feb 25 2013 // It won’t be long before Mother Nature lets your customers know it’s time to get their boats out of storage and into the water. Other customers might decide it’s time to purchase that dream boat. Both of...
Feb 22 2013 // Out of Office ExpectationsDoes your voice mail tell callers you are out-of-office and will return their calls when you return? Of course it does. Does your email advise people emailing you when you are out that you are out...