Latest Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Pennsylvania’s V3 Insurance Partners Hires 2, Promotes 1
Apr 7 2017 // V3 Insurance Partners LLC (V3), a Newtown, Penn.-based specialty program administrator offering insurance programs targeted at middle market companies, has added two senior executives to its professional lines practice –...
Beazley Forms ‘Anything Lineslip’ for Hard-To-Place Professional Liability Risks
Apr 6 2017 // Beazley has launched the new Anything Lineslip in London offering terms for all U.S. management, professional, cyber and healthcare liability risks. The Anything Lineslip is led by Beazley, supported by a number of other...
Wilson Named National Accounts Director for Big ‘I’ Professional Liability Program
Apr 4 2017 // Marianna Wilson has been hired to serve as professional liability director for national accounts for the Big ‘I’ Advantage program of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America. The organization...
Brokers Beware: Data Breach Lawsuit Without the Breach
Apr 3 2017 // In December 2016, it came to light that the Chicago-based law firm of Johnson & Bell had been sued in a purported class action lawsuit brought in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The...
Underwriting Profits Now Imperative for Medical Liability Insurers: PLUS Report
Apr 3 2017 // For all the changes in healthcare in the past 10 years, the principal challenges facing medical professional liability (MPL) insurance remain much the same as they did during the crisis in the mid-2000s: a high level of...
The Hanover Launches Professional Liability Risk Management Portal
Mar 27 2017 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has launched a new online portal featuring risk management tools for the professional liability industry. HanoverProRisk offers articles, templates, risk bulletins and seminars focused on...
Argo Pro Enhances E&O Coverage for Professional Services Firms
Mar 24 2017 // Argo Pro, a member of Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd., has launched a new Argo PROtect line of products and enhanced errors & omissions (E&O) forms for four different classes of professional services. The...
BHSI Offers Professional Liability, Network Security & Privacy Cover in Canada
Mar 22 2017 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) introduced its Professional First Professional Liability and Network Security & Privacy Policy and announced it has appointed Geoffrey Kendrick as head of Professional...
How Medical Liability Insurers’ $30 Billion ‘Cushion’ Is Also Barrier to Profit
Mar 22 2017 // For all the changes in healthcare over the past 10 years, the principal challenges facing medical professional liability (MPL) insurance remain much the same as they have been since its crisis in the mid-2000s: a high...
Medical Professional Underwriters Weigh Impact of Republican Healthcare Changes
Mar 20 2017 // As they grapple with persistently soft market conditions, medical professional liability (MPL) underwriters must weigh the potential impact on their business of proposed changes in the U.S. healthcare financing system. As...
Everest Introduces New Environmental Policy Form with $10M in Capacity
Mar 14 2017 // Everest Insurance has expanded its environmental offering with the new Everest Environmental Apex policy form, which provides up to $10 million in capacity in a lead or excess position with the ability to schedule general...
Allied World Launches 3 Professional Liability Products in Australia
Mar 8 2017 // Allied World Assurance Co. Holdings AG announced it has launched three new professional liability products in Australia: Directors and Officers Liability Insurance, Architects and Engineers Professional Indemnity...
ProSpecialist Insurance Services, LLC Announces New Appointment for an Admitted Lawyers Professional Liability Product in New York
Mar 7 2017 // Newtown, PA, March 7, 2017– ProLawyer Insurance, LLC dba ProSpecialist Insurance Services, LLC is pleased to announce their appointment with an A.M. Best “A” (Excellent) rated carrier for Lawyers Professional...
The Competitive Advantage: Insurance is Losing the Battle of Public Relations
Mar 6 2017 // Flooding in southern Louisiana in the late summer of 2016 revealed 86 percent of flooded homes had no flood insurance. No flood insurance next door to one of our nation’s — and that state’s —...
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Mar 6 2017 // Bruce Carnegie-Brown will become the chairman of Lloyd’s following a meeting of the Council of Lloyd’s where his appointment as successor to John Nelson was approved unanimously. His appointment also was...
XL Catlin & PGU to Offer EPLI Cover for Public Officials, Educators & Police
Mar 3 2017 // XL Catlin’s insurance companies and Professional Governmental Underwriters Inc. (PGU) have entered into an underwriting agreement to offer public entity management and employment practices liability insurance (EPLI)...
Marsh Launches New Excess Medical Professional Liability Policy Form
Feb 27 2017 // Marsh has unveiled a new excess medical professional liability (MPL) policy form that combines industry favorable MPL terms and conditions into a single excess policy to be used by commercial insurers. Developed by...
Starr’s Pittinger Joins ANV Global Services as Underwriting Director
Feb 22 2017 // ANV Global Services Inc., the North American managing general underwriter (MGU) owned by AmTrust Financial Services Inc., has appointed James Pittinger to the role of underwriting director. Responsible for the North...
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Feb 6 2017 // International insurance brokerage and risk management services firm Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., based in Itasca, Ill., has promoted James W. Durkin Jr. and William F. Ziebell in its employee benefit division. Durkin,...
DeLong Named Managing Director, Gemini Risk Partners
Feb 3 2017 // Wholesale insurance broker Gemini Risk Partners, based in Chicago, has appointed Yosha DeLong as managing director. Prior to joining Gemini Risk Partners, DeLong was most recently the London regional executive for...
