Latest Directors Officers Headlines
All the headlines from our Directors Officers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Outside on the Professional Liability Playground
Dec 6 2004 // The PLUS 17th Annual International Conference held in San Diego, Calif., Nov. 3-5, opened with an insightful panel discussion of well-known “outside the industry” professionals who routinely play the game of...
Small Business Enhancements
Dec 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. is now offering a package of eight key coverages tailored to the needs of small businesses with enhancements to Chubb’s “ForeFront Portfolio.” The...
Small Business Enhancements
Dec 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. is offering a package of eight key coverages tailored small businesses with enhancements to Chubb’s “ForeFront Portfolio.” The changes include a lower...
Expanded D&O
Dec 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The professional lines insurance operation of XL Insurance added fiduciary liability coverage to its directors and officers policy. The expanded policy, “a-plus D&O,” replaces XL’s...
Small Business Enhancements
Dec 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. is now offering a package of eight key coverages tailored to the needs of small businesses with enhancements to Chubb’s “ForeFront Portfolio.” The...
Expanded D&O
Dec 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The professional lines insurance operation of XL Insurance added fiduciary liability coverage to its directors and officers policy. The expanded policy, known as ‘a-plus D&O,’ replaces...
Philadelphia Insurance Cos. Finalizes Deal to Purchase Fireman’s Fund NDO Renewal Rights
Nov 15 2004 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies has finalized an agreement with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company to purchase the renewal rights on Fireman’s Fund’s non-profit D&O book of business. The agreement is...
D&O Coverage
Nov 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has created Priority Protection, a new D&O product that protects individual directors and officers. Lawsuits are generally filed against the company and...
The Professional Liability Maelstrom
Oct 25 2004 // Service Providers at Risk As the United States, Europe, Japan and other developed countries turn from industrial-based to service-based economies, more and more people are engaged in providing services, and the more they...
Directors & Officers
Oct 11 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has created Priority Protection, a new D&O product that protects individual directors and officers. Lawsuits are generally filed against the company and...
D&O Coverage
Oct 11 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has created Priority Protection, a new D&O product that protects individual directors and officers. The company said Priority Protection is a highly...
Survey: Increased Stand-Alone A-Side D&O Purchasing
Sep 23 2004 // A recent survey of directors and officers (D&O) insurance buying trends at Fortune 1000 companies shows an increased emphasis on liability insurance designed specifically to protect executives’ personal assets....
Fiduciary Liability: The Most Misunderstood of Management Exposures
Sep 20 2004 // In the early 1960s, life in the United States was lived at a slower pace. Transportation and communication required more time (and patience) and employees were more inclined to trust employers on issues relating to...
The Hartford Unveils New D&O Coverage
Sep 14 2004 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has created Priority Protection, a new D&O product that protects the individual directors and officers. “Directors and officers (D&O) coverage was originally...
Crump Opens National Financial Lines Practice Centered on D&O, Other Lines of Professional Liability
Sep 10 2004 // Crump Insurance Services Inc., a provider of wholesale insurance brokerage services, is launching a national Financial Lines practice to serve the specialty insurance market for management and professional liability. Janet...
CNA’s Revised D&O Product Includes Personal Asset Coverage
Aug 26 2004 // Chicago-based commercial insurer CNA announced a revised product for directors and officers (D&O) to help reduce the risks associated with inadequate protection. CNA said its Individual Solutions policy has been...
Fiduciary Liability: The Most Misunderstood of Management Exposures
Aug 23 2004 // In the early 1960s, life in the United States was lived at a slower pace. Transportation and communication required more time (and patience) and employees were more inclined to trust employers on issues relating to...
Freeburg Joins Noodle Specialty Brokers, Will Underwrite D&O and EPLI
Aug 19 2004 // Chicago-based online wholesaler Noodle Specialty Brokers (NSB) announced that Jonathan Freeburg, 44, has joined the company as a senior underwriter focusing on private company directors’ and officers’ liability...
HCC Subs Assigned ‘AA’ Ratings
Aug 16 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services assigned its “AA” financial strength ratings to American Contractors Indemnity Co. (ACIC) and HCC Reinsurance Co. Ltd. (HCC Re), both subsidiaries of Houston-based...
‘Round and ‘Round the Cycle Goes, Where it Stops Nobody Knows
Aug 9 2004 // Like the wheels of Lance Armstrong’s bike—a blur of perpetual motion as he powered up mountain after mountain in the Tour de France—the non-stop cycle of the property/casualty insurance market continues on its...
