Latest Directors Officers Headlines
All the headlines from our Directors Officers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Bankruptcy and D&O Claims Settlements
Jul 23 2007 // Ever since “entity coverage” became a part of the standard directors’ and officers’ policy, bankruptcy courts have wrestled with the question of whether D&O policy proceeds are property of the...
Guy Carp Issues UK Liability Survey
Jul 5 2007 // Guy Carpenter & Company, the global risk and reinsurance specialist of the Marsh & McLennan Companies, has published “A Year in Review – 2006 Update,” its fourth annual review of the liability...
Managing D&O claims expense
Jun 18 2007 // One of the standard features of the typical directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policy is the provision allowing the insureds to select their own defense counsel, subject only to the insurance...
R&M Adds UK D&O Report
Jun 11 2007 // Dublin-based Research and Markets has added a report on UK Directors and Officers Insurance 2007 to their offering. R&M described the study as providing “a detailed discussion of the state of the UK directors...
Climate Change: Directors’ and officers’ risk ahead?
Jun 4 2007 // For years, environmental issues, including issues arising from global warming, have hovered on the periphery of concerns affecting directors’ and officers’ liability exposure. But an April 2, 2007, decision by...
Business Risk Partners, Praetorian Offer Small-Middle Market D&O
May 23 2007 // Business Risk Partners and Praetorian Financial Group are launching insurance products: Private Accord and Excess Guardian. Private Accord is a directors and officers liability package product for small and middle market...
Insider trading plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?
May 21 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...
Insider trading plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?
May 21 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...
D&O, workers’ comp lead downhill pricing parade, according to risk managers’ survey
May 21 2007 // Directors and officers insurance continues to be a highly competitive line. In the first quarter of 2007, D&O prices decreased by 7.7 percent and by more than 12 percent in the last two quarters of 2006 combined,...
The rest of the story: directors and officers coverage for independents
May 21 2007 // The historic out-of-pocket payments made in recent years by independent directors of publicly traded firms are enough to instill fear in board members everywhere, not to mention their insurance brokers. But is the fear...
Minding Your Business
May 7 2007 // Executive risk exposures producers should know Every day, corporate executives are expected to make the perfect business decisions on all issues. Obviously, this does not happen all the time. The best one can truly expect...
Insider trading plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?
May 7 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...
Executive risk exposures producers should know
May 7 2007 // Every day, corporate executives are expected to make the perfect business decisions on all issues. Obviously, this does not happen all the time. The best one can truly expect is for the executives to make the best decision...
Executive risk exposures producers should know
May 7 2007 // The true insurance professional will understand that there exists a complex world of executive risk losses that can range from shareholder litigation against the board of directors, human resource related claims, lawsuits...
Towers Perrin D&O Report: Spike in Demand for Personal Cover, Higher Limits, Enhancements
May 3 2007 // Public and private companies — more than 66% of respondents — have received a record number of inquiries from potential board members who are concerned about their current directors and officers (D&O)...
ACE Europe Offers Online Environmental Cover
Apr 30 2007 // ACE European Group announced from its London office that its Commercial Premises Pollution Liability (PPL) product is available online via its fully automated e-commerce platform – ACE Online. ACE said it is...
New Chubb D&O Form Addresses Trends Outside the U.S.
Apr 30 2007 // In response to changes in insurance regulations and more stringent corporate governance requirements worldwide, the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has introduced a Difference in Limits/Difference in Conditions...
D&O, Workers’ Comp Lead Downhill Pricing Parade, According to RIMS
Apr 30 2007 // Directors and officers insurance continues to be a highly competitive line. In the first quarter of 2007, D&O prices decreased by 7.7 percent and by more than 12 percent in the last two quarters of 2006 combined,...
Navigators Pro Enhances D&O for Companies Offering Securities
Apr 26 2007 // Navigators Pro has enhanced its primary directors and officers liability policy for publicly traded corporations offering securities in the event of a securities class action lawsuit with the Offering InNAVation...
Globalization of directors and officers coverage
Apr 23 2007 // International business expansions deliver new exposures, new concerns Globalization of directors and officers (D&O) liability products has opened up a whole new world of “what ifs” and “spiraling...
