All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 10 2008 // The new medium of blogging is changing the way communication is done today with respect to both individuals and the corporate universe, according to Leib Dodell, president and CEO of Media/Professional Insurance.While...
Feb 10 2008 // The Nonprofits Insurance Alliance Group in Santa Cruz, Calif., appointed Kim Aday to vice president finance/treasurer. Aday joined the group in 1997 in the position of accountant. In early 2001, she was promoted to...
Feb 5 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 4 2008 // Mercator Risk Services, a specialty wholesale insurance broker, acquired Tennant Risk Services Insurance Agency LLC, a Hartford, Conn.-based wholesale broker and underwriting manager. Terms of the transaction were not...
Jan 29 2008 // AIG Executive LiabilitySM Announces AIG PrivateEdge PlusSM Modular Package of Seven Coverages Available for All Private CompaniesAIG Executive Liability, a division of the property-casualty insurance subsidiaries of...
Jan 27 2008 // As insurance companies face larger, more frequent catastrophe losses, they are increasingly playing hardball with their insureds. Hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes can put pressure on a...
Jan 3 2008 // R.E.Chaix & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. has agreed to purchase Katie Freeman Insurance Services Inc., according to Timothy Chaix, president of R.E.Chaix & Associates and Katie Freeman. Neither...
Dec 17 2007 // Rockwood Programs Inc. has expanded its life, accident and health insurance agent’s E&O product offering to include two new endorsements. One enhancement expands coverage to include incidental property and...
Dec 17 2007 // Editor’s Note: The original version of this story incorrectly identified Mark Solomon, Jr. as being associated with All Auto Insurance Agency Inc. in Richardson and a TIP Board member. Mark Solomon, Jr. is head of...
Dec 13 2007 // Texas Insurance Professionals recently received the Outstanding Sales Achievement Award from the Utica National Insurance Group.Utica Special Programs Vice President/Director Curtis Pearsall praised Mark Solomon Jr., of...
Nov 28 2007 // Darwin Professional Underwriters, Inc. has joined with the lawyers professional liability experts at Wolf Professional Risk in Tampa, Florida to acquire Agency Marketing Services, Inc. of St. Petersburg, Florida.The...
Nov 18 2007 // Munich Reinsurance America Inc. announced that John P. Phelan will retire as planned on Dec. 31, 2007, after serving nearly six years as chairman and CEO. Anthony J. Kuczinski, who is president of Munich Re America’s...
Nov 18 2007 // Despite a rosier outlook in the agents’ errors and omissions (E&O) insurance market compared with years past, many insurance agents still faced rate increases in their E&O coverage in 2007 and anticipate...
Nov 13 2007 // OneBeacon Insurance Group has enhanced its professional liability coverages for information technology businesses. The company’s @vantage for Information Technology product now combines technology errors and...
Nov 13 2007 // Carpenter Moore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., announced the addition of two broker-executives to its errors and omission liability practice. Ted Doolittle has been named managing director,...
Nov 12 2007 // The Marquis Agency of Woodbridge, N.J., acquired Lucas & Dake Co. Inc. of Rochester, N.Y. The new agency will be called Marquis Lucas Dake. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.The Marquis Agency is a...
Nov 7 2007 // The Hartford Financial Services Group announced that it is expanding its existing international professional liability underwriting capabilities with the opening of a new office in London.Following the success of its U.S....
Nov 7 2007 // Three industry executives, including two from AIG, have joined IronPro, the professional liability facility of Bermuda’s Ironshore, Inc.Tom Leahy joins as senior vice president of Underwriting and will manage the New...
Nov 4 2007 // The market for management liability coverages is soft. Premiums are down, which means revenues are down. Yet there still are tremendous opportunities for proactive agents and brokers to sell the coverages, according to...
Nov 4 2007 // Attorneys are singularly aware of liability exposures and the impact of litigation in modern society. Accordingly, attorneys are adroit and meticulous about the insurance coverage they purchase. Insurance must fulfill...