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Financial Firms Facing Highest D&O Premiums as Market Hardens
Feb 26 2009 // Financial services companies now pay the highest average premiums for directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance, surpassing rates paid by life sciences and technology firms, according to a report from Carpenter...
How Securities Lawsuits Will Affect D&O Pricing
Feb 22 2009 // Litigation May Result in Higher D&O Prices But Not Right Away The pace of securities lawsuit filings increased significantly in 2008 compared to recent years. There were 226 new securities lawsuits filed in 2008,...
How Securities Lawsuits Will Affect D&O Pricing
Feb 22 2009 // Litigation May Result in Higher D&O Prices But Not Right Away The pace of securities lawsuit filings increased significantly in 2008 compared to recent years. There were 226 new securities lawsuits filed in 2008,...
Insurance in Times of Financial Crisis
Jan 28 2009 // The current financial crisis affects almost every aspect of our business life. That includes insurance. Businesses need to be wise consumers and aware of the legal issues covered by their coverages. Let’s take a look...
Insurance in Times of Financial Crisis
Jan 25 2009 // Fiduciary liability typically involves an employee suing an employer for not offering employee options for investing in a 401K plan, and the law weighs heavily in favor of the employee in these cases. The current financial...
London’s Reach Bolsters U.S. Specialty Lines
Jan 25 2009 // Insurers Catlin, Beazley, Amlin, Hiscox and Newcomer Torus Find Their Niche in U.S. Market Find a need, then fill it,” is a hoary business principle, but making it work is often harder than it looks. However, a...
Survey: Risk Managers Report Modest Premium Decreases in Q4
Jan 21 2009 // Insurance premiums for businesses continued a five-year trend of falling rates during the fourth quarter of 2008, but recent data suggest a reversal of this trend may soon be underway. Rates for property, general...
Estimating Insurance Losses From the Credit Crisis
Jan 11 2009 // On Nov. 5, 2008, the insurance information firm Advisen issued an updated forecast of insurance losses likely to arise from the credit crisis, estimating aggregate directors and officers (D&O), and errors and...
2008: Top Stories of the Year
Jan 5 2009 // 2008 can be described as a year like no other in the property/casualty insurance world. This year we saw the near death of the world’s largest and most successful insurance company, AIG. The soft market continued to...
2008: A Year of Financial Storms
Dec 21 2008 // 2008 can be described as a year like no other in the property/casualty insurance world. This year, the industry witnessed the near death of the world’s largest and most successful insurance company, AIG. The soft...
D&O Insurance Marketplace Entering a Transitional Phase
Nov 30 2008 // As Credit Crisis Ripples Through Economy, Competitive Conditions Could Be Shifting The growing wave of subprime-related litigation is among the many side effects of the subprime mortgage meltdown. The litigation wave has...
Estimating the Credit Crisis Insurance Losses
Nov 30 2008 // On Nov. 5, 2008, the insurance information firm Advisen issued an updated forecast of insurance losses likely to arise from the credit crisis. Advisen is now estimating aggregate directors and officers, and errors and...
Estimating the Credit Crisis Insurance Losses
Nov 30 2008 // On Nov. 5, 2008, the insurance information firm Advisen issued an updated forecast of insurance losses likely to arise from the credit crisis. Advisen is now estimating aggregate directors and officers, and errors and...
Has the Credit Crisis Litigation Wave Reached an Inflection Point?
Nov 2 2008 // D&O Insurance Marketplace Entering a Transitional Phase The growing wave of subprime-related litigation is among the many side effects of the subprime mortgage meltdown. The litigation wave has changed, too, as the...
Has the Credit Crisis Litigation Wave Reached an Inflection Point?
Nov 2 2008 // D&O Insurance Marketplace Entering a Transitional Phase The growing wave of subprime-related litigation is among the many side effects of the subprime mortgage meltdown. The litigation wave has changed, too, as the...
More Lawsuits, Firmer Prices on the Horizon for Executive Liability
Nov 2 2008 // Property Premiums Fall Sharply; P/C Insurers Post Q3 Losses; Some Sell Stock to Raise Cash for Surplus Woes More lawsuits and firmer rates for directors and officers liability coverage are almost certainly ahead as a...
Increased Vulnerability of Executive Suite Makes D&O a Critical Coverage
Nov 2 2008 // Public, Private and Non-Profits Cannot Afford To Be Without Management Liability Coverage Today
BRP, QBE Offer Packaged Liability Policy for Small, Mid-Sized Firms
Oct 23 2008 // Companies of all sizes are vulnerable to potentially devastating management, employment and fiduciary liability lawsuits. Even claims filed without merit can result in defense expenses that are financially draining....
Towers Perrin Sees P/C Insurer Surplus Decline of 8% for Q3
Oct 22 2008 // The U.S. property/ casualty industry’s reported statutory surplus at the end of the third quarter is projected to decline as much as $42 billion, or 8 percent, from the beginning of the year, according to estimates...
ACE Extends Commercial D&O Offering into Lloyd’s
Oct 17 2008 // ACE Europe announced that it has extended broker access to its market-leading Directors & Officers (D&O) portfolio by writing commercial D&O risks at Lloyd’s. Commercial D&O is now available...
