Latest Professional Liability Headlines

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...

Darwin Adds Managed Care E&O Risk Management Program

Feb 5 2007 // Darwin Professional Underwriters Inc. has established a comprehensive risk management and loss control program for its managed care errors and omissions (E&O) liability policyholders at no additional cost. The...

Pateras Joins Integro (Bermuda) Healthcare Professional Liability Team

Jan 31 2007 // Integro (Bermuda) Ltd. announced that Susan N. Pateras has joined the firm as a Principal in the Healthcare Practice, and will lead the Bermuda Healthcare initiative. “Ms. Pateras has more than a decade of experience...

Chicago Park Group Promotes Peter Upjohn, Creates New Department

Jan 30 2007 // Chicago-based The Park Group, a wholesale insurance brokerage has announced the promotion of Peter Upjohn to the position of manager of the newly established Professional Liability Brokerage Department. Upjohn is...

Burns & Wilcox Adds Ebert in Baltimore

Jan 29 2007 // Burns & Wilcox, the Farmington Hills, Mich.-based national specialty insurance wholesaler, announced the addition of Jennifer Ebert, who joins the company’s Baltimore office in the position of senior commercial...

Montfort Named VP with Willis LegalGuard Team in Fla.

Jan 29 2007 // Willis Group Holdings, Ltd. named J. Norman Monfort, CIC, as vice president in its LawyerGuard Program to expand the company’s programs for the legal sector. Monfort and the LawyerGuard team are based in Tampa,...

Allied medical professional liability: healthy growth to continue

Jan 28 2007 // Allied Medical Professional Liability insurance provides coverage for those risks associated with the use of Allied Health care Providers (AHPs), commonly known as “nonphysician clinicians.” This coverage is...

Don’t be guilty of ignoring the lawyers’ E&O marketplace

Jan 28 2007 // Every day hundreds of thousands of lawyers throughout the U.S. provide legal advice, depose witnesses, prepare and file various legal documents, negotiate contracts and settlements, make court appearances, attend...

PGU Introduces New Professional Liability Policies for Public and Educational Entities

Jan 26 2007 // Richmond, Virginia – Professional Governmental Underwriters, Inc. (PGU) today announces the introduction of new, enhanced public entity errors and omissions (E&O) liability insurance products, with policies...

Darwin Enhances Public Entity E&O Products

Jan 26 2007 // Darwin Professional Underwriters, Inc. is making available enhanced public entity errors and omissions (E&O) liability insurance products, with policies to address educators professional liability risks, police...

Willis Strengthens Montreal Presence

Jan 19 2007 // Global insurance broker, Willis Group Holdings is strengthening its presence in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with several new appointments. Luc Brunet and Jacques Simard have been named to the positions of Sr. VP and Account...

AXIS Reorganizes; Reding Named COO

Jan 18 2007 // Bermuda’s AXIS Capital has announced a strategic reorganization “to further strengthen the global operations of AXIS Insurance,” starting with the appointment of Dennis Reding, currently that...

Shand Morahan Revamps Lawyers Professional Liability Program

Jan 12 2007 // Shand Morahan & Company Inc., underwriting manager of Evanston Insurance Company, revamped its lawyers professional liability program, now called Designed Protection for Law Firms. Targeted to hard-to-place attorneys...

Ill. The Park Group Adds Senior Vice President

Jan 10 2007 // The Park Group (AVRECO), a wholesale insurance brokerage in Chicago, has announced the hiring of Sarah Dore, CPCU, to the position of senior vice president within the Healthcare department. Prior to joining AVRECO, Dore...

Dissecting a claims made policy

Jan 8 2007 // You’ve heard the phrase: “If I could predict the future, I would be wealthy.” If our industry truly could do that, underwriting, rating and pricing would become the easiest tasks on the planet. Short of...