Latest Directors Officers Headlines
All the headlines from our Directors Officers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Price Scare
May 3 2010 // Seven years and running, the soft market shows few signs of loosening its grip on commercial insurance pricing, according to a new industry study. Average premiums in every line tracked by the RIMS Benchmark Survey fell in...
Price Scare
May 3 2010 // Seven years and running, the soft market shows few signs of loosening its grip on commercial insurance pricing, according to a new industry study. Average premiums in every line tracked by the RIMS Benchmark Survey fell in...
Chartis Introduces Next Generation D&O Policy for Public Companies
Apr 28 2010 // Chartis has launched Executive Edge, a policy developed by its Executive Liability Division to address the unprecedented risks facing directors and officers of public companies. Executive Edge provides coverage for public...
Directors & Officers Liability Renewals: A Tale of Two Markets
Apr 27 2010 // Your client’s directors and officers liability policy is coming up for renewal. What can you expect from the market? Like the Dickens classic, this is a tale of two markets. The Best of Times For companies with...
CAA Members See Uptick in D&O, E&O and EPLI Policies
Apr 21 2010 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) members see a growing appetite among businesses and non-profits for directors and officers liability insurance (D&O), error and omissions insurance (E&O),...
Risk Managers Continue to Report Soft Market Pricing
Apr 15 2010 // Seven years and running, the soft market shows few signs of loosening its grip on commercial insurance pricing, according to a new industry study. Average premiums in every line tracked by the RIMS Benchmark Survey, fell...
Private Company Directors and Officers Coverage
Apr 5 2010 // Should It Be First on Your List Rather Than Last? But we are a private company,” is a typical response when trying to open a conversation about directors and officers (D&O) liability coverage with a prospect or...
Private Company Directors and Officers Coverage
Apr 5 2010 // Should It Be First on Your List Rather Than Last? But we are a private company,” is a typical response when trying to open a conversation about directors and officers (D&O) liability coverage with a prospect or...
Are Special Litigation Committee Expenses Covered Costs?
Apr 5 2010 // A Recurring D&O Coverage Issue Heats Up Among perennial directors and officers insurance issues are questions whether policy coverage is available for the costs associated with special litigation committees. A Dec. 30,...
U.S. Prosecutors Targeting Mid-Level, Senior Corporate Officers in Foreign Bribery Cases
Apr 5 2010 // Woodruff Sawyer’s Amantea Advises Adding Specific D&O Endorsement to Ensure Coverage Directors and officers will be the target of more federal prosecutions under the U.S. anti-bribery statute, said a top U.S....
D&O Coverage as a Partner in Crime (and Fidelity)
Apr 5 2010 // While high-profile crimes like Bernie Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme generate headlines, employees at companies across the county are committing smaller, low profile crimes every day. Many employee theft schemes...
A Tale of Two Markets
Apr 5 2010 // What to Expect in the D&O Liability Renewal Market Your client’s directors and officers liability policy is coming up for renewal. What can you expect from the market? Like the Dickens classic, this is a tale of...
Woodruff-Sawyer Protects Independent Directors with Personal Policy
Apr 1 2010 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has crafted a new personal protection solution called Wealth Security Policy for independent board members through a collaboration with an A+ XV rated Insurer. Independent directors of...
Zurich Targets Emerging Public Companies With Management Liability
Mar 26 2010 // Zurich’s Specialties’ Management Solutions Group has created a new practice aimed at offering management liability insurance to public emerging growth companies with revenues under $500 million. The new...
Petros Joins Marsh’s Financial and Professional Practice
Feb 9 2010 // Marsh announced that Eleni Petros has been appointed as a Senior Vice President in its Financial and Professional (FINPRO) Practice in London. She specialises in Directors’ and Officers’ (D&O) insurance for...
Navigators Replacing CNA on Schinnerer Non-Profit D&O Program
Jan 14 2010 // CNA and Victor O. Schinnerer & Co., Inc. are ending their carrier and managing general underwriter relationship in the non-profit directors and officers (D&O) program. The split, which the firms said is amicable,...
Aon: P/C Market and D&O Market to Further Stabilize in 2010
Dec 10 2009 // Property, casualty and directors’ and officers’ (D&O) liability insurance rates will continue to stabilize in 2010, according to Aon Corp.’s U.S. Q3 ’09 Quarterly Market Overview. Highlights of...
Options Backdating Settlement Has Important D&O Insurance Implications
Dec 6 2009 // In what may be a watershed event for the directors and officers (D&O) insurance industry, the parties to the consolidated federal options backdating-related shareholders’ derivative lawsuit involving Broadcom...
Stanford Sues Lloyd’s of London for Defense Fees Under D&O Policy
Nov 25 2009 // Allen Stanford, who faces U.S. criminal and civil charges for allegedly leading a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, is suing Lloyd’s of London for defense costs. Lloyd’s had advanced some legal fees under a directors...
Forecast: Still Soft
Nov 1 2009 // Analysts Forecast Healthy Q3 Reports from Insurers promised the headline on Insurance Journal Oct.22. Reuters was reporting that third-quarter earnings reports from insurers would look a lot better than they did a year ago...
