All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 21 2010 // American Safety Insurance (ASI) announces the launch of its professional liability unit, providing directors and officers (D&O) and errors and omissions (E&O) coverage for specialty risks. The team, lead by Peter...
Oct 20 2010 // Global specialty insurer Torus has appointed Jeffery S. Grange as senior vice president and head of U.S. professional lines. Based in Torus’ Jersey City, N.J. office He reports to Chief Underwriting Officer Dermot...
Oct 18 2010 // Co-insurance penalty. Trust me these are not the words you want to hear from your customer right after a claim. How confident are you that your customers know: 1) if they have a co-insurance provision in their property...
Oct 18 2010 // They go by many names — networks, alliances, franchises, clusters and aggregators — but all have similar goals. Aggregator groups have been around the insurance industry for more than three decades but in the past few...
Oct 14 2010 // Agents, there’s just one more day to participate in Insurance Journal’s Agency E&O Survey. The deadline to take the survey is Friday, Oct. 15.Don’t miss your chance to find out what’s been going...
Oct 12 2010 // The deadline to complete Insurance Journal’s Agency E&O Survey is Friday, Oct. 15.Don’t miss your chance to find out what’s been going on with insurance agents’ errors and omissions insurance....
Oct 8 2010 // The Arizona component of The American Institute of Architects (AIA Arizona) has awarded Stuckey Insurance as the 2010 recipient of the Affiliate Award. AIA Arizona promotes the architectural profession through the strength...
Oct 7 2010 // Aubie W. Knight has assumed the role of chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia (IIAG).Knight has been with IIAG since 1996. During his tenure, he has been responsible for most of...
Oct 7 2010 // It’s time again for Insurance Journal to find out what’s been going on with Insurance Agents’ Errors & Omissions Insurance. IJ’s annual survey solicits the experiences and opinions of...
Oct 6 2010 // New Jersey-based wholesaler Jimcor Agencies has hired Frazier J. Tharpe as professional liability specialist. Tharpe has 25 years of experience having worked on the carrier, wholesaler and claims sides of the insurance...
Oct 6 2010 // I believe the future of independent insurance agencies is at a tipping point. A number of forces are pushing agencies toward the precipice of major change. A few of those forces include: legislation, case law, the Web,...
Oct 4 2010 // New Jersey-based wholesaler Crump Property & Casualty Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Target Underwriting Management Corp., a managing general underwriter and program administrator headquartered in Connecticut.The...
Oct 1 2010 // Enrollment for the United Farmers Agents Association’s Errors and Omissions Plan for all qualified agents will begin 10/1/2010 for the coverage period beginning 1/1/2011. Premium will be collected in January when the...
Sep 28 2010 // The man who started the online insurance exchange MarketScout in 2000 is on the lookout for innovators and innovations in the insurance industry. Richard Kerr recently hosted more than 400 insurance entrepreneurs and...
Sep 28 2010 // Attorneys and law firms in Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C. seeking professional liability insurance from Zurich will now be able to purchase the insurance protection from Couch Braunsdorf Insurance Group. Zurich and...
Sep 21 2010 // Medical professional liability insurance provider, MMIC Group, recently announced its entry into the Kansas/Missouri marketplace.According to MMIC President and CEO Bill McDonough, “As consolidation of healthcare...
Sep 21 2010 // Brown & Brown, Inc. announced that Rob Roth has been named director and practice leader of Professional Liability for the company’s wholesale brokerage division. Roth began his career with ECC Insurance Brokers,...
Sep 20 2010 // Proactively Manage Your Future and Be Ready for Change I believe the future of independent insurance agencies is at a tipping point. A number of forces are pushing agencies toward the precipice of major change. A few of...
Sep 20 2010 // Real estate errors and omissions (E&O) liability coverage is big business. Although the recent property debacle has focused attention on single home sales, they are only part of the market, even if transactions...
Sep 20 2010 // When reviewing errors and omissions (E&O) claims frequency by line of business, homeowners ranks third behind two commercial lines products (casualty and property). Focusing strictly on personal lines makes homeowners...