Latest Directors Officers Headlines
All the headlines from our Directors Officers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insider Trading Plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?
Apr 23 2007 // For several years, directors and officers underwriters have viewed corporate insiders’ adoption of so-called “Rule 10b5-1 plans” as evidence of good corporate governance and as a positive underwriting...
Globalization of directors and officers coverage
Apr 23 2007 // Globalization of directors and officers (D&O) liability products has opened up a whole new world of “what ifs” and “spiraling concerns” for the insurance industry. For starters, insurers,...
Top 10 myths of D&O liability insurance
Apr 9 2007 // In today’s soft directors and officers market, the importance of a long term approach can often be lost in the process of securing coverage. However, history has proven in the past 15-plus years that the D&O...
Top 10 myths of D&O liability insurance
Apr 9 2007 // In today’s soft directors and officers market, the importance of a long term approach can often be lost in the process of securing coverage. However, history has proven in the past 15-plus years that the D&O...
PLUS, CPCU To Host D&O Seminar in San Francisco on April 11
Mar 27 2007 // The Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) of Northern California and the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Society (CPCU) Golden Gate Chapter will present their first joint program, “Directors and...
Top 10 myths of D&O liability insurance
Mar 26 2007 // Squelching frequent misconceptions of this valuable protection. In today’s soft directors and officers market, the importance of a long term approach can often be lost in the process of securing coverage. However,...
Recent “opt-out” settlements challenge D&O severity, limits assumptions
Mar 26 2007 // A recent wave of individual institutional investor securities lawsuit “opt-out” settlements is raising troubling new questions about both D&O carriers’ claims severity assumptions and D&O...
Recent “opt-out” settlements challenge D&O severity, limits assumptions
Mar 26 2007 // A recent wave of individual institutional in-vestor securities lawsuit “opt-out” settlements is raising troubling new questions about both D&O carriers’ claims severity assumptions and D&O...
Top 10 myths of D&O liability insurance
Mar 26 2007 // In today’s soft directors and officers market, the importance of a long term approach can often be lost in the process of securing coverage. However, history has proven in the past 15-plus years that the D&O...
Recent “opt-out” settlements challenge D&O severity, limits assumptions
Mar 26 2007 // A recent wave of individual institutional in-vestor securities lawsuit “opt-out” settlements is raising troubling new questions about both D&O carriers’ claims severity assumptions and D&O...
Should D&O insurers have a loss prevention role?
Mar 12 2007 // Why don’t directors and officers insurers insist on corporate governance reform from their insureds as a precondition of coverage, the way property and workers’ compensation insurers condition their coverage on...
Marsh Sees ‘Demand Surge’ in Romania’s Compulsory D&O Law
Mar 2 2007 // “Changes to Romanian corporate law, making it compulsory for companies to purchase directors’ & officers’ liability insurance (D&O), are creating a surge in demand for cover,” according to...
Declarations
Feb 26 2007 // Stellar statistic “This is the most remarkable statistic of all. The combined ratio we estimate to be about 94 for the year. That would be the best result since 1955.” — Dr. Robert Hartwig, president and...
Corporate governance, capital drive D&O liability prices down
Feb 26 2007 // Changing corporate governance practices and excess capital in the insurance market have made directors’ and officers’ liability premiums drop in recent years, and rate level erosion in almost every line of...
Should D&O insurers have a loss prevention role?
Feb 26 2007 // Why don’t directors and officers insurers insist on corporate governance reform from their insureds as a precondition of coverage, the way property and workers’ compensation insurers condition their coverage on...
D&O experts show little tendency to drink from a glass ‘half full’
Feb 26 2007 // Corporate governance, stockholder activism, pricing discipline, a surprise event to define next D&O cycle Things are about as good as they can get right now in the directors and officers liability environment but that...
A new direction for directors and officers coverage
Feb 26 2007 // Changes in attitudes, lawsuits, statutes worldwide force global companies to buy locally-admitted D&O A company that acquires a new property in a foreign country will usually review its property and casualty insurance...
8 La.’s Blanco: Industry over-reacting to hurricanes
Feb 25 2007 // Governor says state is making headway on storm protection 9 Ark. auto insurance fraud suspect turns self in Fraud ring allegedly scammed hundreds of thousands of dollars 10 New Orleans couple drops suit against Allstate No...
Declarations
Feb 25 2007 // Stellar statistic “This is the most remarkable statistic of all. The combined ratio we estimate to be about 94 for the year. That would be the best result since 1955.” — Dr. Robert Hartwig, president and...
Corporate governance, capital drive D&O liability prices down
Feb 25 2007 // Changing corporate governance practices and excess capital in the insurance market have made directors’ and officers’ liability premiums drop in recent years, and rate level erosion in almost every line of...
