Latest Professional Liability Headlines

Midwest Surplus Lines: A Market Unto Itself

Sep 5 2005 // Gone are the days when the Midwest’s surplus lines market saw all sorts of business, from high-liability risks to garden variety commercial property coverage. For the region’s surplus lines business, the...

People

Sep 5 2005 // Ronald L. Alexander has been named president and managing partner of Willis Group Holdings Ltd.’s Tennessee operations in Knoxville, Tenn. Alexander was formerly executive vice president and chief operating officer...

IJ Exclusive: Shand Morahan’s ‘How to Write’ Professional Liability

Sep 5 2005 // In the ongoing “How to Write” broadcast series from the Insurance Journal studios in San Diego, Calif., Carol Murphy and Mary Sanders of Shand Morahan & Co. discussed errors and omissions insurance,...

Strategies to Tap into Profitable, New Business Accounts

Sep 5 2005 // Developing new business is an integral part of every insurance agent’s regimen. There are endless ways to go about looking for new business, however, successful agents know how to focus their efforts to engage in the...

Strategies to Tap into Profitable, New Business Accounts

Sep 5 2005 // Developing new business is an integral part of every insurance agent’s regimen. There are endless ways to go about looking for new business, however, successful agents know how to focus their efforts to engage in the...

Sep 5 2005 // Harleysville Group Inc. has appointed Robert G. Whitlock Jr. as senior vice president and chief underwriting officer. He will assume senior management responsibility for Harleysville’s commercial lines and personal...

Allied World Announces Three Management Changes

Aug 25 2005 // Allied World Assurance Company, Ltd. [AWAC] has announced the following management changes: — Daniel Brandon has been promoted to the position of senior vice president, Professional-Specialty Lines Treaty...

DVUA Names Rigsby to Lead Professional Liability Division

Aug 22 2005 // Edward Levy, president and chief executive officer of Delaware Valley Underwriting Agency, Inc. in Hatboro, Pa., announced the appointment of Rob C. Rigsby to the position of professional liability manager. Rigsby will be...

E&O Liability Product

Aug 22 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Kansas City-based underwriting manager and claims administrator Euclid Managers LLC launched ProtoType, an insurance product for manufacturers. The product features errors and omissions, Web site...

AVRECO Appoints Gloppe Professional Liability Underwriter

Aug 17 2005 // AVRECO, a wholesale insurance brokerage based in Chicago, has announced the appointment of Marcia Gloppe as an underwriter in the professional liability underwriting department, headed by Linda Deiss. Gloppe began her...

Ames & Gough Adds Pair of Construction and Design Firm Execs

Aug 10 2005 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving architects, engineers, lawyers and the managed care industry, announced the hiring of two former senior Marsh USA executives...

AmPro Launches New Professional Liability Program in Four S.E. States

Aug 5 2005 // Miami, Fla.-based American Professional Liability Underwriters Inc. (AmPro), wholesale brokers and managing general agents, dealing exclusively in professional liability, have been appointed as managers for a new program...

NAS Introduces New Social Services Professional Liability Coverage

Jul 27 2005 // Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has just introduced its new Social Services Professional Liability coverage. Eligible classes are quite extensive, ranging from Mental Health Facilities to Alcohol and Drug Rehab...

Teachers’ Professional Liability

Jul 18 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: THOMCO added teachers’ professional liability to its “Childcare Choice” program, endorsed by the National Child Care Association. Coverage is offered automatically and at no charge on...

Alliance Files Court Briefs On Behalf of Agents, Brokers in E&O Case

Jul 18 2005 // The American Agents Alliance has filed two briefs with the California Supreme Court in an attempt to protect insurance producers from fallout resulting from a recent Appellate Court ruling. On June 30 the state Supreme...

Education Essential

Jul 18 2005 // Frequent CE Classes Keep Agents Informed Efforts to provide first-quality education at its annual convention, insurance day programs and at regular errors and omissions education programs puts the Professional Independent...

D.C. Department Approves ProAssurance Acquisition of NCRIC Inc.; Aug. 2 Vote Scheduled

Jul 14 2005 // Medical malpractice insurers writers NCRIC Group Inc. and ProAssurance Corporation announced that the District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking has approved the proposed acquisition of NCRIC,...

Liberty International Underwriters Now Offers Accountants’ Professional Liability In 34 States and D.C.

Jul 8 2005 // Boston, MA and Dallas, TX – Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), a division of Liberty Mutual Group, and ProTexn, Inc. announce that CPAEssential(SM), an accountants’ professional liability policy designed...

XL Expects Negative Q2 Results Following Reserve Strengthening

Jul 8 2005 // Bermuda’s XL Capital Ltd. has announced today that its second quarter 2005 results will be adversely impacted by an increase in net reserves in its North American reinsurance operations of $191 million...

ABI Hails Adoption of Employers Liability (Workers Comp) Attorney Fee Schedule

Jul 5 2005 // The Association of British Insurers (ABI) applauded the announcement that the U.K.’s Civil Justice Council has reached an agreement “on the level of success fees in employers’ liability disease...