All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 27 2008 // Chartwell Independent Insurance Brokers LLC, a wholesale and specialty insurance broker focusing on high-risk, hard-to-place coverage, announced that it has added an Excess & Surplus (E&S) Casualty Division to...
Mar 24 2008 // When I sold my agency in 2001, I moved to Florida and started buying shopping centers. Hurricane Frances almost destroyed the center I acquired across from the beach one day after my first renewal. My agent had originally...
Mar 24 2008 // The public views insurance agents and brokers as professionals, experienced and knowledgeable in a complicated and specialized field. Negligence focuses on the principle that people who hold themselves out to the public as...
Mar 20 2008 // New York, NY- March 20, 2008: Pacific Underwriters announced that it has partnered with Darwin Professional Underwriters to place management liability insurance for private company and not-for-profit risks utilizing...
Mar 14 2008 // Lockton Cos. has expanded its insurance services for law firms and other professional service organizations in the Chicago office with the addition of Alaina Walls as its new vice president and account executive.Walls is...
Mar 10 2008 // Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker reports it has extended the employment agreement with Joseph J. Plumeri, its chairman and chief executive officer.The agreement, which was originally scheduled to expire...
Mar 10 2008 // Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker, reports it has extended the employment agreement with Joseph J. Plumeri, its chairman and chief executive officer.The agreement, which was originally scheduled to expire...
Mar 10 2008 // Hedge funds manage financial risk every day. Managers constantly seek out new strategies and investments, and then weigh the potential reward of each investment against its risk and the fund’s ability to bear that...
Mar 6 2008 // San Diego, CA, 03/06/2008 – ARROWHEAD General Insurance Agency, Inc. has announced its independent property and casualty insurance agents errors and omissions product will be underwritten with an “A”...
Mar 4 2008 // XL Insurance announced the availability of excess professional liability coverage, with limits up to $25 million, for architectural and engineering (A/E) firms. John Glancy, chief underwriting officer of XL...
Feb 24 2008 // The new medium of blogging is changing the way communication is done today with respect to both individuals and the corporate world, says Leib Dodell, president and CEO of Media/Professional Insurance.While blogs pose...
Feb 24 2008 // Hedge funds manage financial risk every day. Managers constantly seek out new strategies and investments, and then weigh the potential reward of each investment against its risk and the fund’s ability to bear that...
Feb 24 2008 // The anti-aging and medi-spa revolution is here to stay some experts say. Just look at celebrities such as 70-year-old actress Jane Fonda or 68-year-old singer Tina Turner to see what transformations can be achieved through...
Feb 24 2008 // San Diego-based Barney & Barney LLC named Jim O’Connell principal. He also will serve as director of development for programs, specialty insurance solutions. In that role, he is responsible for both regional and...
Feb 24 2008 // The crisis in the subprime mortgage market has had little impact on availability, cost or policy conditions of directors and officers liability (D&O) and errors and omissions liability (E&O) insurance policies,...
Feb 24 2008 // If anything is certain in the world of technology, it’s that it is always changing — rapidly. Electronic and Internet communication devices that were unheard of 10 years ago, maybe even five years ago, are so...
Feb 22 2008 // Lockton Companies added Mary Guzman to its Atlanta brokerage team as senior vice president and producer for all property and casualty lines.The addition of Guzman expands Lockton’s Atlanta-based professional...
Feb 21 2008 // Willis Re, the reinsurance operations of Willis Group Holdings, has released new research analyzing the risk to the underwriting portfolios of professional liability re/insurance Underwriters stemming from the sub-prime...
Feb 21 2008 // New York-based Valiant Insurance Group Inc. has hired Adrian Scott as senior vice president and head of the group’s professional liability practice. Scott is the former managing director of the global professional...
Feb 14 2008 // Farmington, Conn.-based Darwin Professional Underwriters, Inc. reports it has signed a marketing relationship with Agency Specialty Product Network Insurance Services, Inc. (ASPN).Under the arrangement, ASPN’s...