Latest Professional Liability Headlines

All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.

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Nov 7 2011 // Westfield Insurance, headquartered in Westfield, Ohio, selected Dennis Baus to lead the company’s surety operations. Baus assumes the national surety leader responsibilities on Jan. 1, 2012, replacing Rick Kinnaird...

2011 Agency E&O Survey

Nov 7 2011 // Agency owners have a lot to protect. Of course, first and foremost they must protect their clients.But they must also protect their book of business. They must protect their relationships. They must protect their...

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Nov 7 2011 // Jim Donelon has been re-elected commissioner at the Louisiana Department of Insurance. Donelon, a Republican from Metairie, on Oct. 22 defeated Democrat Donald Hodge. Donelon has been insurance commissioner since...

Procedural Consistency: A Good Defense for Agency E&O

Nov 7 2011 // I have often been asked why procedural consistency is important for reducing errors and omissions (E&O) exposures. Another way of asking the question is, “Why is inconsistency an issue?”Let’s first...

Argo Launches New Management Liability Policy for Private Companies

Nov 3 2011 // Argo Insurance, a member of Argo Group International Holdings Ltd. has introduced Private Playbook, a management liability package policy offering private companies access to various professional lines coverages, including...

Why Real Estate Professionals Need E&O Coverage

Oct 31 2011 // As real estate professionals know well, most signs point to slow progress in real estate industry growth. Professionals are left to manage their costs, make cuts where possible, keep up-to-date on industry trends, fight...

Aspen U.S., V3 Insurance to Offer Misc. E&O, Optional Premises Liability Program

Oct 31 2011 // Aspen U.S. Insurance has partnered with V3 Insurance Partners LLC, a managing general underwriting agency, to offer Vantage360 MPL+, a miscellaneous professional liability and optional premises liability program available...

EBRM Launches BCS Errors & Omissions Insurance

Oct 27 2011 // EBRM has launched a new BCS errors & omissions policy available only to authorized agents of EBRM, a general agency of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois. The policy is a guaranteed issue insurance plan that...

Last Chance to Participate in IJ’s Agency E&O Survey

Oct 21 2011 // Don’t miss your chance to find out what’s been going on with insurance agents’ errors and omissions (E&O) insurance.The deadline to participate is Monday, Oct. 24. This annual survey solicits the...

Gumtree Wholesale Insurance Hires Cota in Missouri Office

Oct 20 2011 // Vicki Cota has been named underwriter/broker at Gumtree Wholesale Insurance Brokers Inc. in its Springfield, Mo., office. She previously served as professional liability underwriter for Bohrer-Croxdale & McAdoo...

Don’t Miss This Year’s Agency E&O Survey

Oct 18 2011 // Once again, Insurance Journal is polling its readers asking for their thoughts on today’s agency errors and omissions market. Don’t miss your chance to find out what’s been going on with insurance...

Kephart Joins IIAT as E&O Marketing Specialist

Oct 17 2011 // Gunnar Kephart has joined The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas as E&O marketing specialist. In this newly created role, Kephart will advise agents on errors and omissions issues and assist with their E&O...

IronHealth Expands Government E&O Products to Managed Care Organizations

Oct 17 2011 // IronHealth, the specialty healthcare unit of Ironshore Inc., has expanded its government billing errors & omissions product suite to include a policy form tailored to meet the needs of managed care organizations (MCO)....

Real Estate Professionals: Exposed & Unaware

Oct 17 2011 // As real estate professionals know well, most signs point to slow progress in real estate industry growth. Professionals are left to manage their costs, make cuts where possible, keep up-to-date on industry trends, fight...

More Optimism, but Plenty of Controversy Surrounds Mortgage Broker Errors and Omissions Market Segment

Oct 17 2011 // Insurance agents serving the mortgage broker marketplace see some signs of improvement but they aren’t yet jumping for joy.The mortgage brokers error and omissions (E&O) market became severely strained when the...

E&O Spotlight: Insuring Commercial Properties? Important Issues to Watch For

Oct 17 2011 // Most agencies write some degree of commercial insurance. There is a good chance that insuring the building is part of the overall program for these commercial exposures. Unfortunately, as demonstrated by the following...

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Oct 17 2011 // Wells Publishing Inc. has named Don Jergler as its new West editor for its flagship Insurance Journal online and print property/casualty insurance publications.Jergler, based in California, will cover the western states...

RSG Announces New Leadership at ThinkRisk Agency

Oct 13 2011 // Chicago-based Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) announced leadership changes at ThinkRisk Underwriting Agency, one of RSG’s underwriting companies.Nicole Haggerty has been named president and Reza Khan executive vice...

NAS Launches Medical Billers, Coders E&O Program

Oct 12 2011 // NAS Insurance Services has launched a new program for medical billers and coders. NAS’ Medical Billers and Coders E&O includes: coverage for third party claims arising out of a wrongful act in the performance of...

What Do YOU Want in Agency E&O? Take the Survey Now

Oct 11 2011 // Don’t miss your chance to find out what’s been going on with insurance agents’ errors and omissions (E&O) insurance. Insurance Journal’s annual survey solicits the experiences and opinions of...