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2012 Agency E&O Survey: Participate Now

Oct 11 2012 // Once again, Insurance Journal is polling its readers asking for their thoughts on today’s agency errors and omissions market. Don’t miss your chance to find out what’s been going on with insurance...

Schinnerer Adds Small Business Miscellaneous E&O Policy

Oct 11 2012 // Victor O. Schinnerer & Co., a managing general underwriter, is adding to its professional liability offerings with a new miscellaneous professional liability (MPL) insurance program for small businesses. Schinnerer...

Burand’s Agency E&O Blog: Tip #12

Oct 10 2012 // Discussing Claims with Insureds. A common and often key personality trait of CSRs and producers is that they are people pleasers, especially relative to customers. When it comes to claims, being a people pleaser can get...

Markel Updates IT Professional Policy

Oct 9 2012 // Markel has launched a revamped IT professional policy, with a complete overhaul of the existing form. In addition to basic professional liability, the policy now includes configurable first and third party data privacy and...

Academy of Insurance’s 2012 Fourth Quarter Schedule

Oct 8 2012 // October 11, 2012 The Real Meaning of the Property Damage Exclusion in the CGL Mary Anne Medina, Vale Training Solutions October 17, 2012 Insurance Distribution and Marketing Chris Burand, Burand & Associates...

ACE USA Expands Health, Managed Care Privacy Protection

Oct 7 2012 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of the ACE Group, has introduced the privacy and network security liability endorsement to both the healthcare facilities and managed care organization policies. This endorsement...

Supreme Court to Hear Employer Liability, Class Certification in New Term

Oct 1 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review close to 40 cases in its new term that begins on Monday, roughly half the number the court is expected to hear this year. Below are some of the more prominent cases that the...

Burand’s Agency E&O Blog: Tip #11

Sep 26 2012 // Unexpected Staffing Issues do cause E&O claims. Staffing is not usually the title of a PowerPoint slide in an E&O class but staffing is at the heart of many E&O claims. The simplest way in which staffing causes...

E&O Insights: Know the Details When Insuring Cargo

Sep 24 2012 // It’s important to know all of the details when looking to insure risks with a cargo exposure. Because no two risks are the same, the underwriter will look to the agency to provide those details to fully understand...

Burand’s Agency E&O Blog: Tip #10

Sep 19 2012 // Staff Licensing. Staff licensing may seem like such an obvious topic that it does not deserve even to be discussed in a blog. However, many facets exist to staff licensing that can and do create E&O exposures, and even...

Burand’s Agency E&O Blog: Tip #9

Sep 12 2012 // Certificates of Insurance, Part 2.Last week’s blog covered the reason certificates cause so many E&O mistakes due to processing errors. This week’s blog covers the second reason certificates of insurance...

Mitsui Sumitomo Promotes Wood to Class Underwriter-Professional Indemnity

Sep 6 2012 // Mitsui Sumitomo at Lloyd’s announced the promotion of Stuart Wood to Class Underwriter for Professional Indemnity (PI) within its Professional Lines operation. Wood joined Mitsui Sumitomo at Lloyd’s in 2009. He...

Burand’s Agency E&O Blog: Tip #8

Sep 5 2012 // Certificates of Insurance. Certificates are probably the most frustrating aspect of processing commercial insurance today. A blog is not the place to detail the entire universe of certificate E&O exposures and...

All Risks, General Star Enhance Insurance Agents E&O Program

Aug 30 2012 // All Risks, Ltd. has enhanced its exclusive insurance agents errors & omissions program through General Star Management Co. Specialized coverage now features additional insolvency options, revised rates, no minimum...

NAS Launches Enhanced E&O Coverage for Healthcare Consultants

Aug 30 2012 // NAS Insurance Services has enhanced their E&O program for healthcare facilities with more coverages for consultants. The E&O product for healthcare consultants now includes: Ÿ Cyber liability coverage Ÿ...

Hard Market Generates New E&O Challenges for Insurance Agents

Aug 22 2012 // The soft market has made the job of insurance agents very difficult the last few years. Competition has been extremely fierce, and premiums so low that agents have had to fight for business and write more accounts just to...

Business Risk Partners to Offer LIU-Backed E&O, D&O Coverage

Aug 20 2012 // Program administrator Business Risk Partners (BRP) will underwrite three additional programs in professional and management liability offered through Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), the global specialty lines...

Want to Experience an E&O Claim? Here’s How

Aug 20 2012 // Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Insurance Journal’s Satire Issue, August 20, 2012. The content in this issue is not real and is not to be taken seriously. It’s supposed to be humorous....

Catlin Names Curran to Head London Casualty Operations

Aug 15 2012 // The Bermuda-based Catlin Group Limited announced that Daniel Curran has been appointed Head of Casualty for Catlin’s London based underwriting operations. He will have responsibility for “a wide range of...

R K Harrison Hires Rees to Lead New Cyber Risk Practice

Aug 14 2012 // Employee-owned, London-based insurance broker R K Harrison announced that David Rees has joined the firm to “head a dedicated cyber practice within its specialist casualty team, responding to the increasingly...