Latest Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Darwin Launches New Clinical Research Liability Product, Team
Apr 5 2007 // Farmington, Conn.-based specialty insurer Darwin Professional Underwriters, Inc. is now making available a new specialty liability coverage with the addition of clinical research liability insurance (CRLI). Darwin...
AXIS Capital to Acquire Aon’s Media/Professional Insurance
Mar 29 2007 // AXIS Capital, a global specialty commercial property and casualty insurer and reinsurer, has agreed to acquire the assets and operations of Media/Professional Insurance (Media/Pro), a managing general underwriter...
Euclid’s BusinessWare Packages Liability for Service Professionals
Mar 29 2007 // Euclid Managers, LLC, an underwriting manager based in Kansas City, announced a new insurance product for service professionals. This new product, BusinessWare, packs a variety of professional liability coverages into one...
Court ruling indicates claims made policy language ambiguous
Mar 26 2007 // A recent San Diego Superior Court ruling serves as a potential warning to legal malpractice insurers to review policy language to ensure their claims made policies can’t be more broadly construed as occurrence...
As hedge fund industry matures, so do its liability risks
Mar 26 2007 // Hedge funds are exposed to increasing risks from regulators, market conditions and the public There are three things you can be sure will happen during your time on earth: death, taxes and plaintiff’s attorneys...
The New Frontier
Mar 26 2007 // Information technology companies may explore the new frontier everyday, but do they know where their exposures lie? Will they be ready for the next big liability risk close encounter? “Owners and or creators of IT...
The New Frontier: Hidden exposures and brewing claims in the tech liability field
Mar 26 2007 // Information technology companies may explore the new frontier everyday, but do they know where their exposures lie? Will they be ready for the next big liability risk close encounter? “Owners and or creators of IT...
Top 10 ways for California surplus line brokers to avoid E&O exposures
Mar 26 2007 // Editor’s note: Although this article is geared toward California surplus line brokers, with small variations the same advice may be of help to surplus line and retail brokers in other states. Surplus line brokers...
Court ruling indicates claims made policy language ambiguous
Mar 26 2007 // A recent San Diego Superior Court ruling serves as a potential warning to legal malpractice insurers to review policy language to ensure their claims made policies can’t be more broadly construed as occurrence...
Top 10 ways for California surplus line brokers to avoid E&O exposures
Mar 26 2007 // Editor’s note: Although this article is geared toward California surplus line brokers, with small variations the same advice may be of help to surplus line and retail brokers in other states. Surplus line brokers...
As hedge fund industry matures, so do its liability risks
Mar 26 2007 // There are three things you can be sure will happen during your time on earth: death, taxes and plaintiff’s attorneys chasing the money. Hedge funds have the money! However, hedge fund managers are the epitome of...
Judge Rules Claims Made Policy Language Ambiguous
Mar 23 2007 // A recent San Diego Superior Court ruling serves as a potential warning to legal malpractice insurers to review policy language to ensure their claims made policies can’t be more broadly construed as occurrence...
Beazley Acquires Health Care Specialist Sapphire Blue
Mar 13 2007 // Beazley Group has agreed to acquire Sapphire Blue, an agency specializing in professional liability insurance for U.S. health care institutions, particularly long term care facilities. The transaction significantly...
Coverage or price? Package or mono-line?
Mar 12 2007 // Weighing the options on purchasing public officials’ and educators’ professional liability It’s an age-old insurance question, whether talking property, casualty, auto or professional liability. As a...
Mar 12 2007 // People Markel Insurance Co. named Thomas K. “Smitty” Smith as vice president of marketing. Smith joins Markel after three years as senior vice president and managing director of the Richmond branch of Riggs,...
Coverage or price? Package or mono-line?
Mar 12 2007 // It’s an age-old insurance question, whether talking property, casualty, auto or professional liability. As a buyer, how much coverage can you afford to live without in order to get the premium number that fits nicely...
London American Professional Liability, LLC introduces a new Accountants Professional Liability Program
Feb 28 2007 // Fort Lee, New Jersey – London American Professional Liability, LLC (LAPL), a Program Administrator and MGA, introduces a new program for Accountants Professional Liability. The program is being offered in most states...
WKF&C Adds Insurance Agents’ Professional Liability Coverage
Feb 15 2007 // WKF&C Agency, Inc. has expanded its professional liability facility to include coverage for insurance agents and brokers. The nationwide managing general agency for excess and surplus lines said the coverage, written...
Guy Carpenter Appoints Hanke Senior V.P.-Treaty
Feb 15 2007 // Guy Carpenter & Co., LLC, the risk and reinsurance specialist and part of the Marsh & McLennan Companies, named Steven Hanke as senior vice president- treaty for the Eastern Region of North America. Hanke will be...
New Wholesale Broker, Camford National, Opens in N.J.
Feb 13 2007 // Lebanon, N.J.-based Camford National Insurance Brokers LLC, has opened as a specialty lines wholesale insurance brokerage serving property/casualty agents and brokers both nationally and internationally. Camford National...
