Latest Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Want to Know More About Agency E&O? Participate Now.
Oct 21 2016 // Insurance Journal is asking for participation in its 2016 Agency Errors & Omissions Survey. This survey report will share key insights on today’s Agency E&O market. Participate now to learn more about the...
XL Catlin Adds Cyber Insurance For Design Professionals
Oct 14 2016 // To help architectural and engineering firms stave off the financial and reputation consequences of potential cyber incidents, XL Catlin has added cyber insurance as an optional coverage to its professional liability...
Ironshore International Offers PI & GL Cover for Engineers Based Outside U.S.
Oct 12 2016 // Ironshore International has introduced a packaged policy to provide combined professional indemnity and general liability insurance for specialist engineers. Bermuda-headquartered Ironshore said it will underwrite coverage...
BTIS announces partnership with Hiscox for new bind-online Small Business Program
Sep 28 2016 // Rocklin, CA, September 28, 2016- Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Services, Inc. (BTIS) is pleased to announce the launch of a new partnership with Hiscox providing access to small business solutions in 49...
What’s Ahead in Health Care Workers’ Compensation?
Sep 27 2016 // For the 2017 accident year, health care systems will face a complex environment of emerging risks that will have a direct impact on workers’ compensation, according to analysts at Aon Global Risk Consulting. The risk...
QBE North America Adds Manufacturing E&O Endorsement to Product Liability Coverage
Sep 23 2016 // QBE North America’s Commercial Insurance business has introduced a manufacturing E&O endorsement to its product liability product offering. The manufacturing E&O endorsement is a claims made coverage form...
New MGA Verve to Target Liability Market for Insurance Agents, Insurers in U.S.
Sep 22 2016 // Newly-launched managing general agency Verve Risk Partners plans to target U.S. professional and management liability risks, focusing on insurance companies and captives as well as insurance agents and brokers. The...
Hiscox USA Expands Allied Healthcare Coverage to Pharmacies
Sep 22 2016 // Hiscox has launched a new coverage designed specifically for pharmacies that will complement Hiscox’s existing tailored forms in Allied Healthcare, including ambulance and medical transportation, beauty salon and day...
Hiscox Launches Combined Cyber Risk, Professional Liability Coverage for Hospitals
Sep 19 2016 // Hiscox has combined the services of its healthcare and cyber underwriters to launch Healthcare Threat Protect to coordinate with a hospital’s professional and general liability as well as their growing cyber...
XL Catlin Updates Coverage for Design Professionals to Address Emerging Risks
Sep 16 2016 // XL Catlin has enhanced its design professional insurance policy form to address architects’, engineers’ and other design businesses’ changing professional liability insurance needs. According to Doug...
ProSight, Program Brokerage Corporation Launch Pest Control Program
Sep 15 2016 // ProSight Specialty Insurance has launched a new pest control program to be distributed by Program Brokerage Corporation (PBC), a wholesale insurance brokerage firm and the official endorsed broker of the National Pest...
Chicago Underwriting Group Rebrands as Old Republic Professional Liability
Sep 7 2016 // Chicago Underwriting Group Inc., the professional liability underwriting division of Old Republic Insurance Co., is changing its name to Old Republic Professional Liability Inc. The company said the new name more clearly...
Filling the Gap in Contractors Professional and Pollution Liability
Sep 6 2016 // Coverage Part A of the Commercial General Liability (CGL) policy is limited in scope, extending coverage to claims arising out of only bodily injury (BI) and/or property damage (PD). Couple Part A’s limited scope...
Expert Gives Agents C- on Understanding of Cyber Insurance
Sep 6 2016 // Eduard Goodman, chief privacy officer of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based IDT911, an identity theft protection firm, isn’t too high on the industry’s knowledge of cyber insurance, cybercrime and data theft. Goodman...
Allied World Bermuda Appoints Chow as Senior VP, Professional Lines
Aug 26 2016 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings announced that Dale Chow has been appointed to senior vice president, Professional Lines, for Allied World Bermuda. In this role, Chow will be responsible for the strategic...
Expert Gives Agents C- on Understanding of Cyber Insurance
Aug 23 2016 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Eduard Goodman, chief privacy officer of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based IDT911, an identity theft protection firm, isn’t too high on the industry’s knowledge of cyber insurance,...
Allianz Launches Cyber Coverage to Address Emerging Risks
Aug 10 2016 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has introduced its next generation cyber and professional liability coverage product called ACCEPT Protect designed exclusively for the North American market. The new product...
Professional Liability ‘Business Enterprise Exclusion’ Upheld in Wisconsin
Aug 8 2016 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court has put to a rest a case in which an insured alleged breach of faith when the insurance company that wrote his professional liability errors and omissions insurance policy denied coverage due to...
New MGA Founders Specialty Targets Professional Liability Risks
Aug 3 2016 // National wholesale insurance broker, Founders Professional, has opened a new managing general agency, Founders Specialty, which will focus on developing products primarily in the professional liability space with key...
Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds Professional Liability ‘Business Enterprise Exclusion’
Jul 29 2016 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court has put to a rest a case in which an insured alleged breach of faith when the insurance company that wrote his professional liability errors and omissions insurance policy denied coverage due to...
