All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 7 2022 // Applied Financial Lines Names Noble, Owen and DauNebraska-headquartered specialty insurer Applied Underwriters has expanded its Applied Financial Lines unit with several key appointments. Kim Noble has been named vice...
Mar 7 2022 // Insurance rating agency AM Best said it expects the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry to record an increase in surplus in 2021 thanks to investment income and capital gains improvements despite booking an...
Mar 4 2022 // Take1 Introduces Coverage for Documentary, Industrial, Commercial, and Educational Film ProducersThanks to the growing number of broadcast, cable and streaming platforms, the market demand for recorded filmed content has...
Feb 24 2022 // Insurance rating agency AM Best said it expects the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry to record an increase in surplus in 2021 thanks to investment income and capital gains improvements despite booking an...
Feb 9 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), RiverStone International and broker Tysers.A summary of these new hires follows here. BHSI Promotes...
Jan 27 2022 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Norman-Spencer is growing its current real estate errors & omissions (E&O) program by creating an exclusive Risk Purchasing Group (RPG) with The Hanover Insurance Group. Exclusive coverages...
Dec 16 2021 // Fox Point Programs is expanding its professional liability insurance offerings for small businesses in more than 2,000 professional categories through the introduction of its FoxPro Defender series errors and omissions...
Nov 30 2021 // Exclusive product for Amwins brokers will focus on excess D&ONovember 30, 2021 — Amwins Special Risk Underwriters today announced the launch of an Executive D&O Liability product. This product marks the...
Nov 18 2021 // Bernstein brings 24 years of wholesale insurance expertise to his new positionSHERMAN OAKS, CA – November 9, 2021: Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers (WSS), an XPT Partners company, is pleased to announce the...
Nov 1 2021 // Errors & omissions claims against agencies related to the COVID-19 pandemic have not materialized as feared a year ago. Overall, E&O claims against agencies actually dropped in 2020.That’s basically good news...
Nov 1 2021 // According to Insurance Journal’s 2021 Agency E&O survey, 58.4% of respondents saw an increase in their E&O renewal premium from 2020 to 2021, up from 50.2% in last year’s survey. And 61.8% expect...
Oct 21 2021 // Castel Underwriting Agencies Ltd. has launched a new underwriting cell, North American Professional Liability (NAPL), to focus on professional service firms’ business in the U.S.The cell is writing both primary and...
Oct 14 2021 // Skyward Specialty Insurance Group is broadening its professional and management liability offerings for the U.S. legal cannabis market by adding cannabis-related risk to multiple coverage classes. The company’s...
Oct 8 2021 // Insurance Journal invites buyers of agency errors and omissions insurance to participate in this year’s Agency Errors & Omissions Survey.The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete, and will...
Jun 7 2021 // Almost a year ago, I wrote an article, asking the question, Do Police Officers Need to Buy Professional Liability? It’s still a good question and I’d like to explore it again from another direction. What might...
May 20 2021 // Anderson Benson, a Nashville-based independent insurance and risk management broker, has been appointed as a coverholder by Lloyd’s of London for a worldwide media liability errors and omissions (E&O) program...
May 13 2021 // Despite a slight improvement in net income in 2020, U.S. medical professional liability (MPL) insurers saw their sixth consecutive year of underwriting losses, according to a new AM Best report.According to the new...
May 12 2021 // First Indemnity Insurance Group, a specialty insurance agency providing professional liability products for lawyers and law firms, has launched Excess Protect insurance coverage for law firms of one to 750 attorneys.Excess...
May 4 2021 // Core Specialty Insurance Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries has formed an underwriting arrangement with DUAL Commercial, LLC to provide primary and excess professional liability limits for qualified classes of business....
Apr 28 2021 // Houston-based Skyward Specialty Insurance Group Inc. (Skyward Specialty) has launched its Healthcare Professional Liability practice led by Brenda Craig, April Gilcreast and Chantelle Burton.Underwriting will focus on...