Latest Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NSM Acquires New York Manager of Dentist, Lawyer Programs
Sep 7 2011 // NSM Insurance Group has acquired AFPD, a New York-based program administrator for lawyers and dentists errors and omissions programs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. NSM is a national program manager based in...
NSM Insurance Group Acquires AFPD
Sep 7 2011 // Geof McKernan, CEO of Philadelphia-based NSM Insurance Group, announced the acquisition of AFPD, a national program administrator for Lawyers and Dentist E&O programs, headquartered on Long Island, NY. AFPD is a...
Insurance Noodle to Offer ACE D&O, E&O Coverage Through Online Hub
Sep 6 2011 // Insurance Noodle, part of Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, has added has added the management and professional liability products of ACE Commercial Risk Services to the offerings of its online quoting...
Monitor Liability Managers Introduces Employed Lawyers E&O Insurance
Aug 23 2011 // Monitor Liability Managers, LLC has introduced a new employed lawyers professional liability (ELP) insurance program. The product provides attorneys and their staff working as corporate counsel with coverage for claims...
Business Risk Partners Launches Lloyd’s-Backed Miscellaneous E&O Form
Aug 19 2011 // Business Risk Partners (BRP) now offers a new standard professional liability (E&O) policy form for hundreds of service professions. Policies will be underwritten by Lloyd’s of London, the company’s partner...
Wright USA Creates Career Protector E&O Plan for Government Personnel
Aug 17 2011 // Wright USA has launched a professional liability product tailored to United States government personnel who are responsible for managing the activities of others. The product – branded as the Career Protector Plan – is...
XL Names 6 to North America Construction Team
Aug 17 2011 // XL Insurance has made six key appointments to its North America Construction team that it established a year ago. The latest additions to XL Insurance’s North America Construction team include: Lawrence Lejfer...
E&O Insights: 15 Ways to Guarantee an Agency E&O Claim
Aug 15 2011 // Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Insurance Journal’s Satire Issue, August 15, 2011. The content in this issue is not real and is not to be taken seriously. It’s supposed to be humorous....
Easy Ways to Increase Revenue and Profits with Little and Preferably No Effort
Aug 15 2011 // Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Insurance Journal’s Satire Issue, August 15, 2011. The content in this issue is not real and is not to be taken seriously. It’s supposed to be humorous....
People
Jul 18 2011 // Barbara Zito has been named senior vice president of Marketing at Founders Insurance Co. in Des Plaines, Ill. Founders is a member company of the Utica National Insurance Group of New Hartford, N.Y. Zito is responsible for...
E&O Insights: E&S Market Requires Attention to Detail
Jul 18 2011 // The excess and surplus lines (E&S) marketplace fulfills a huge role in our industry. The exposures it can entertain are virtually limitless. Without this segment of our industry, many risks might very well have gone...
People
Jul 4 2011 // Anthony A. Ambrose has been promoted to vice president and senior broker at New York-based wholesale broker Russell Bond. Ambrose joined Russell Bond in 1994 and is currently responsible for financial institutions, medical...
Driven to Teach and Armed with Knowledge
Jul 4 2011 // Chris Christian, CIC, RPLU, has, in her own words, “a compulsion to teach,” to go with her 26 years of insurance experience. Christian’s passion for teaching began in the Marine Corps. “One of the...
Insurance Journal Academy of Insurance 2011 Third Quarter Schedule
Jul 4 2011 // July 7 Identifying Professional Liability Exposures July 13 Five Claims Secrets No Lawyer Wants You to Know July 14 Understanding Lawyers Professional Liability July 20 Understanding and Explaining Ordinance or Law...
Survey: Law Firms Face Rising Number of Malpractice Claims
Jun 30 2011 // The recent economic recession and prolonged real estate market slump are triggering a rise in the number of malpractice or professional liability claims lodged against law firms this year. A new study by insurance broker...
Align Adds Abram to Professional Liability Unit
Jun 28 2011 // Align Financial Group Inc. has added Jeffrey Abram as a broker in the San Diego Office of the company’s newly acquired professional liability subsidiary, E.L.M. Insurance Brokers. Abram was previously a senior broker...
Erger and Miller Join Lockton in Kansas City
Jun 22 2011 // Kansas City, Mo.-based independent insurance broker Lockton Companies LLC has expanded its construction and design team with the addition of Karen Erger and Tom Miller. Erger joins Lockton’s Design and Construction...
Grise Joins The Keating Group
Jun 22 2011 // Massachusetts-based broker The Keating Group (tKg) has appointed John M. Grise vice president of professional liability. Grise, based in Southborough, will lead tKg’s professional liability team in the New England...
4 Things Agents Should Do to Avoid E&O Claims
Jun 21 2011 // After handling insurance coverage claims for years, a distinct pattern has emerged: sometimes the insurance agent gets “caught in the middle” of a dispute between the policy holder and the insured. Often,...
The Nap Defense
Jun 20 2011 // Have you ever had your attention wander during a client presentation, forgotten to recommend a coverage, left an account folder at a restaurant or fallen asleep at the wheel on the way to a meeting? Those might be the...
