Latest Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
INSUREtrust of Georgia Adds Kinkade as Professional Lines Account Manager
May 8 2018 // INSUREtrust has added Brady Kinkade as a Professional Lines account manager on the production team of Executive Vice President Christiaan Durdaller. Kinkade’s experience in the insurance industry comes from his...
Insurers Broadening Architects, Engineers Liability Coverage: Survey
Apr 24 2018 // While the market for architects and engineers professional liability insurance remains intensely competitive, many insurers providing this coverage are weighing new policy enhancements that offer expanded protection. A new...
Business Risk Partners Teams With Aspen on Agents Professional Liability Coverage
Apr 20 2018 // Program administrator Business Risk Partners (BRP) has released an expanded professional liability form for insurance agents and brokers through Aspen American Insurance Co., part of Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited. The...
Marsh Appoints Denny as UK Financial & Professional Practice Leader
Apr 18 2018 // Marsh announced the appointment of Paul Denny as UK Financial and Professional Practice (FINPRO) Leader. Denny reports to Paul Moody, CEO of Marsh’s UK Specialties Division. Denny joined Marsh in 1989 and held senior...
Senefsky Joins IIAT as E&O Sales Executive
Apr 17 2018 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has added Cari Senefsky as E&O sales executive. Senefsky has more than a decade of insurance sales experience and success, with five of those years dedicated to...
Maximum Adds Johannsen in Professional Lines on West Coast
Apr 9 2018 // Maximum has hired Clancy Johannsen to add to its professional lines presence to the West Coast. Johannsen has nearly two decades of professional liability experience. She began her career in general liability and has since...
XL Catlin Enhances Design Professionals Professional Liability Platform
Apr 4 2018 // XL Catlin has enhanced its online underwriting platform for design professional brokers to offer capabilities for quick, single-point access to rate, bind and issue professional liability insurance coverage for architects,...
Worldwide Facilities Acquires Connecticut’s Tennant Risk Services Insurance Agency
Apr 3 2018 // Worldwide Facilities has acquired Tennant Risk Services Insurance Agency LLC. Worldwide Facilities is a Los Angeles, Calif.-headquartered, national wholesale insurance brokerage and managing general agency. Tennant Risk...
Agency E&O: To Win a Lawsuit or Prevent One?
Apr 2 2018 // Insurance agents and brokers have long been targets of error and omission lawsuits. It’s also true that most of them have sought advice of counsel as to how to win a lawsuit. They will often be told that the duty of...
Agency Best Practices for Avoiding, Rather Than Winning, E&O Suits
Mar 21 2018 // Insurance agents and brokers have long been targets of error and omission lawsuits. It’s also true that most agents and brokers have sought advice of counsel as to how to win a lawsuit. They will often be told that...
For U.S. Doctors, Being Sued Is Common Ailment
Mar 19 2018 // Getting sued is not an uncommon event for physicians. More than a third of physicians (34 percent) have had a claim filed against them at some point in their careers. Also, according to research from the American Medical...
Trump Administration, McDonald’s Rush to Avoid Employer Liability Trial
Mar 18 2018 // The National Labor Relations Board is ignoring its own guidelines and rushing to settle a major workplace action involving McDonald’s Corp., lawyers for employees involved in the litigation alleged. If the workers...
Maximum Taps Smid to Lead Florida Professional Lines Practice Expansion
Mar 13 2018 // Maximum, an independent, Chicago-based excess and surplus lines wholesaler, is expanding its professional lines practice with the addition of a Tampa, Fla. office. Gary Smid Gary Smid has been hired to fill a production...
Hiscox Launches Mental Health Professional Liability Policy
Mar 9 2018 // Hiscox has added new coverages to its insurance policy for U.S. businesses in the mental health industry. Hiscox PRO Outpatient Mental Healthcare Professional Liability offers a variety of specialized benefits for mental...
Validus Specialty Expands Commercial D&O Portfolio; Zurich’s McAdams Named Sr. U/W
Mar 8 2018 // Validus Specialty Underwriting Services Inc. announced the expansion of its product portfolio with an admitted, private company commercial directors and officers (D&O) policy. With broad coverage, the new form provides...
For U.S. Doctors, Being Sued Is Common Ailment
Mar 7 2018 // Getting sued is not an uncommon event for physicians. More than a third of physicians (34 percent) have had a claim filed against them at some point in their careers. Also, according to research from the American Medical...
Y-Risk Approved as Lloyd’s Coverholder for Cyber, Technology E&O Product
Mar 7 2018 // Y-Risk, LLC, a specialty underwriting management company, has been approved as a Lloyd’s coverholder with authority for cyber and technology E&O insurance on behalf of certain Lloyd’s syndicates. Y-Risk is...
Sompo International to Launch Specialty Operation in Spain; Executive Team Named
Mar 6 2018 // Sompo International announced it will launch a specialty insurance underwriting operation in Barcelona, Spain. Sompo currently has a London-based operation but must open EU-based headquarters in order to conduct business...
Former Swett Exec Vogle Joins Worldwide Facilities as SVP in Atlanta
Feb 23 2018 // National wholesale insurance brokerage and managing general agent Worldwide Facilities has added George Vogle to its Atlanta office as a senior vice president specializing in professional liability. Vogle began his career...
Ryan Specialty Group to Acquire New Jersey’s New Day Underwriting Managers
Feb 22 2018 // Ryan Specialty Group LLC (RSG) has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the assets and operations of New Day Underwriting Managers LLC (New Day), a specialty intermediary with offices in Hamilton, N.J. New Day will...
