Latest Professional Liability Headlines

All the headlines from our Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.

LIG Schedules Four One-Day Marine Contractors’ Workshops, Seminars

Feb 2 2006 // Four one-day seminars on commercial marine insurance including a Marine Contractors’ Workshop, navigating interlocking coverages, navigating commercial marine liabilities and navigating marine workers’...

Arrowhead Professional Liability Div. Names Senior Program Underwriter

Feb 1 2006 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency’s Inc. Professional Liability Division, Torrance, Calif., has appointed Anita Bryant senior program underwriter for the employment professional liability insurance, private company...

Live Today on IJ: Watch Professional Liability Underwriters Ring Closing NASDAQ Bell at 3:50 PM EST

Jan 31 2006 // The president of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society will ring the closing bell at The NASDAQ Stock Market in Times Square today to kick-off the group’s annual Directors & Officers insurance...

Specialty Global Unveils Miscellaneous E&O Program with Everest

Jan 31 2006 // Specialty Global Insurance has launched its nationwide miscellaneous E&O program with Everest Indemnity Insurance Company, a member of the Everest Re Group Ltd. As Everest’s underwriting and claims manager for...

Fireman’s Fund Specialty Expands Freight Forwarders Program

Jan 26 2006 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company has introduced a new insurance package offering combinations of shippers interest, bailee, legal liability, and errors and omissions (E&O) coverages for freight forwarders. The...

Specialty Global Unveils Travel Agents E&O Program

Jan 24 2006 // Specialty Global Insurance is launching a nationwide Travel Agents E&O program. The new program is designed for travel agents and tour operators with gross written receipts of $5,000,000 or more. Specialty Global...

Surplus Line Market: Speculations for 2006

Jan 23 2006 // AUTHOR: By Susan McKenna Experts agree. The surplus lines market remains alive, healthy and stable. Who can argue with the success of this niche-based market that has risen from 4 percent in 1984 to almost 15 percent of...

Producers’ own liability grows as they and their clients expand

Jan 23 2006 // Property and casualty insurance agents and brokers are being exposed to more lawsuits as they move into unfamiliar products, states and technologies, and as their clients do the same. Cus-tomers and juries see agents and...

Only your E&O carrier and your boss care how smart you are

Jan 23 2006 // We insure some local rural water districts. One of our customers called and asked if I would call one of their friends, another rural water district. On my visit to the prospect, I found out their current agent, from...

Surplus Lines Market: Speculation for 2006

Jan 23 2006 // Experts agree. The surplus lines market remains alive, healthy and stable. Who can argue with the success of this niche-based market that has risen from 4 percent in 1984 to almost 15 percent of the insurance market in...

Producers’ own liability grows as they and their clients expand

Jan 23 2006 // There is increased pressure to be an answer or expert to the evolving risks that change with companies as they grow and become diverse,” notes Mark Ruggles of Calsurance. Ruggles moderated a panel on the subject of...

Keeping up with increasing liability as clients expand

Jan 23 2006 // Property/casualty insurance agents and brokers are being exposed to more lawsuits as they move into unfamiliar products, states and technologies, and as their own clients do the same. In the eyes of customers and juries,...

Errors & Omissions

Jan 22 2006 // Property casualty insurance agents and brokers are being exposed to more lawsuits as they move into unfamiliar products, states and technologies and as their own clients do the same. In the eyes of customers and juries,...

Errors & Omissions

Jan 22 2006 // There is increased pressure to be an answer or expert to the evolving risks that change with companies as they grow and become diverse,” notes Mark Ruggles of Calsurance. Ruggles moderated a panel on the subject of...

Aging baby boomers will mean more

Jan 22 2006 // rehabilitation centers. E&S market ready for some uncertainty Some price hardening possible due to hurricanes; new opportunities seen in housing and health care markets Experts agree. The surplus lines market remains...

Excess, Surplus & Specialty

Jan 22 2006 // Speculations for surplus lines market in 2006 Experts agree. The surplus lines market remains alive, healthy and stable. Who can argue with the success of this niche-based market that has risen from 4 percent in 1984 to...

News Currents

Jan 22 2006 // Surplus Line Market: Speculations for 2006 Experts agree. The surplus lines market remains alive, healthy and stable. Who can argue with the success of this niche-based market that has risen from 4 percent in 1984 to...

Producers’ own liability grows as they and their clients expand

Jan 22 2006 // News Currents Property and casualty insurance agents and brokers are being exposed to more lawsuits as they move into unfamiliar products, states and technologies, and as their clients do the same. Cus-tomers and juries...

Only your E&O carrier and your boss care how smart you are

Jan 22 2006 // Different cus-tomers need different styles of presentation, and one way doesn’t work for every account. Recently I won a large account the old fashioned way. I earned it. We insure some local rural water districts....

How to Write: Lawyers Liability

Jan 22 2006 // With more than a quarter million law firms in the United States, the lawyers’ professional liability market represents a huge opportunity for retail agents and wholesale brokers seeking to grow their business. In any...