Latest Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
BHSI Launches Network Security & Privacy Liability Insurance in Canada
Nov 16 2017 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has unveiled its Professional First Network Security & Privacy Liability Policy in Canada. The product combines cyber liability and breach response coverage with risk...
Alera Group Acquires Illinois Professional Liability Broker, Flagship Healthcare
Nov 14 2017 // Deerfield, Illinois-based Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property and casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, has acquired Flagship Healthcare, a physician-owned insurance brokerage specializing...
ISMIE Expanding Medical Professional Liability Insurance Offerings in Wisconsin
Nov 8 2017 // ISMIE Mutual Insurance Co. and ISMIE Indemnity plan to expand their medical professional liability coverage for health professionals, groups and health care facilities in Wisconsin. With a recently updated state rate...
CRC Group Hires Blair to Midtown Manhattan Office
Nov 8 2017 // CRC Group has hired Carol Blair as a professional lines broker for the CRC Midtown Manhattan office, effective October 1, 2017. Carol brings more than 16 years of experience in brokerage to CRC in professional risks in...
Insurtech-Led TPA, Advent Claims, to Administer Claims for Principia Underwriting
Nov 8 2017 // Advent Claims, the insurtech-led claims third party administrator (TPA), announced it has signed an agreement to administer all claims for Aquila Underwriting-backed MGA, Principia Underwriting. Principia, which previously...
Allianz to Offer Small Business Cyber Risk Management Services Through Zeguro
Nov 8 2017 // Allianz Group’s specialist corporate insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has partnered with Silicon Valley-based software company Zeguro, to address cyber security and risk management for small to...
BHSI Creates Excess Integrated Follow Form for Contractors
Nov 6 2017 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has unveiled the Excess Integrated Follow Form, a single excess policy that sits atop multiple first- and third-party insurance policies, for contractors in the U.S. and...
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Nov 6 2017 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Worldwide Facilities has named Cameron Kelly its chief operating officer. Kelly will be responsible for managing the company’s production offices, compliance, and acquisition integration. He...
CMI in California Names Witherspoon Lawyers Professional Liability Leader
Nov 2 2017 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Cooper & McCloskey Inc. Insurance Brokers has named Jack Witherspoon the lawyers professional liability team leader. Witherspoon will be responsible for leading and managing the CMI LPL...
QBE North America Forms Alliance with MGA Professional Risk Facilities
Nov 1 2017 // QBE North America, an operating division of QBE Insurance Group Ltd., announced a strategic program underwriting alliance with managing general agent Professional Risk Facilities (PRF), designed to offer coverage for...
Summerville to Head Swiss Re Casualty, Financial and Professional Services for North America
Oct 31 2017 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has appointed Jeff Summerville as head of Casualty, Financial & Professional Services North America, effective immediately. Summerville will oversee the North American Casualty business in...
AssuredPartners Acquires New Jersey’s Synergy Professional Associates
Oct 31 2017 // AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired Synergy Professional Associates of Fairfield, N.J. Synergy is a managing general agent and wholesale insurance intermediary devoted to professional liability and program development. It...
Founders Professional Adds Kodikian to New San Francisco Office
Oct 24 2017 // Founders Professional has named Raffi Kodikian to the role of lawyers professional liability practice leader, marking the brokerage’s first West Coast hire. Kodikian will focus on the placement of lawyer’s...
Zurich’s Mulligan to Lead Aon Benfield’s U.S. Cyber Practice Group
Oct 20 2017 // Reinsurance intermediary Aon Benfield has appointed Catherine Mulligan as managing director and U.S. Cyber Practice Group leader. Mulligan brings underwriting, policy form and product knowledge to Aon’s cyber...
Massachusetts’ Morrison Mahoney Elects Six New Partners
Oct 20 2017 // Morrison Mahoney LLP, a Boston, Mass.-headquartered law firm, has announced the election of six new partners. The partners represent a range of practice areas including appeals, insurance coverage, construction litigation,...
Ironshore Hong Kong Offers Legal Event Expense Cover in Hong Kong Market
Oct 18 2017 // Ironshore Hong Kong has introduced a specialty professional lines product that offers protection for after-the-event legal expenses following commercial litigation. Ironshore’s After-the-Event Legal Expenses product...
INSUREtrust of Georgia Promotes Tschetter to Professional Lines Broker
Oct 16 2017 // INSUREtrust has promoted Will Tschetter to Professional Lines broker. In his new role, Tschetter will specifically focus on new broker production, and will be brokering cyber insurance, technology errors and omissions...
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Oct 2 2017 // Former Florida State Senator John M. McKay has been appointed to the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation Board of Governors by Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, according to an announcement from the Florida...
XL Catlin Adds EPLI, Cyber Coverage for Design Professionals in Canada
Sep 20 2017 // XL Catlin has added two optional coverages to its professional liability insurance for architects, engineers and other design businesses in Canada: employment practices liability (EPL) Insurance and cyber insurance...
After the Storm: Insurance Agents E&O Lessons Learned
Sep 20 2017 // Editor’s Note: This is a republication of a January, 2013 article by Sally Coombs, who was then with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co, which is now integrated into Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty...
