All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 22 2010 // Laura McCormick has joined Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Burns & Wilcox as a professional lines broker specializing in miscellaneous professional, environmental consultants, E&O and non-profit D&O.McCormick has...
Mar 18 2010 // NAS Insurance Services, Inc. has enhanced its miscellaneous and technology errors and omissions (E&O) insurance by adding general liability coverage with a $1,000,000 limit for each occurrence and a $2,000,000 general...
Mar 18 2010 // Zurich North America has introduced Employed Lawyers Select, a new errors and omissions (E&O) policy that gives in-house counsel coverage against negligence claims.“Without negligence coverage, in-house attorneys...
Mar 17 2010 // Bermuda-based Allied World Assurance Company Holdings has announced a number of senior-level promotions effective March 1, 2010.In Bermuda, Tracey Gibbons was promoted from Vice President, Casualty Treaty Reinsurance to...
Mar 9 2010 // OneBeacon Professional Insurance (OBPI) has a new technology errors and omissions (E&O) product targeted to technology firms, including application service providers, software developers, technology consulting firms,...
Mar 9 2010 // Navigators Management Co. Inc., has expanded its professional liability division by hiring several industry experts in the Architects & Engineers Professional Liability arena.Bill Farran has been hired to lead this new...
Mar 8 2010 // Steve Peeters, who most recently was president and chief operating officer of Jacksonville, Fla.-based Zurich Insurance Services, joined The Main Street America Group as vice president, commercial lines product.Peeters...
Mar 7 2010 // Although heavy personal lines accounts are generally more favorable from an errors and omissions (E&O) standpoint, there is no doubt the potential for some significant claim activity — both in frequency and severity...
Mar 3 2010 // Laura McCormick has joined Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Burns & Wilcox as a professional lines broker specializing in miscellaneous professional, environmental consultants, E&O and non-profit D&O. McCormick...
Feb 22 2010 // Consulting and actuarial firm Milliman Inc. says a study it conducted in response to the Illinois Supreme Court’s overturn of caps on non-economic damages in medical liability cases will increase overall claim...
Feb 22 2010 // Free-standing legislation introduced by Reps. Betsy Markey of Colorado and Thomas Perriello of Virginia to amend the McCarran-Ferguson Act for health insurers no longer includes text to remove the limited antitrust...
Feb 21 2010 // Insurance giant Liberty Mutual Insurance is suing nine former employees and their new employer, Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Holdings, alleging they have plotted to steal professional liability insurance business from its...
Feb 21 2010 // The current economic turmoil is wreaking havoc across the board. Businesses are downsizing or going out of business. Families are suffering from lost jobs and financial woes. The insurance industry has taken its own hits....
Feb 19 2010 // Victor O. Schinnerer & Co., Inc. will decrease rates and expand coverage in the state of California for its real estate errors and omissions program.Beginning April 1, 2010, the following rating changes take effect: 20...
Feb 19 2010 // Lee & Mason Financial Services, Inc. has increased its limits for insurance agents’ errors and omissions coverage from $5 million to $10 million. Insurance agents E&O coverage, with limits of up to $10...
Feb 12 2010 // Zurich has introduced Zurich Pro Plus, an enhanced Errors & Omissions (E&O) coverage to address the needs of a range of business professionals, including consultants, and media and information technology...
Feb 7 2010 // Ask any agent who has suffered through an errors and omissions (E&O) suit, and he or she will provide sage-like insight into the professional and even personal trials created by such an ordeal.I recently met an agent...
Feb 5 2010 // Insurance giant Liberty Mutual Insurance is suing nine former employees and their new employer, Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Holdings, alleging they have plotted to steal professional liability insurance business from its...
Feb 3 2010 // In its fourth annual Ohio Medical Professional Liability Closed Claim Report the Ohio Insurance Department shows a total of 3,080 medical professional liability claims were closed in 2008. The amount of compensation paid...
Jan 28 2010 // Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), a division of Liberty Mutual Group, restructured its U.S. Specialty Casualty unit. The following organizational changes are effective immediately:Carl Pursiano has been named chief...