Delaware News

Liberty International Offers Travel Professionals’ E&O Program

Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), a division of Liberty Mutual Group, and Travel Professionals Insurance Network (TPIN), a service of MPP Co. Inc., have partnered to offer a new travel professionals errors and omissions insurance product, which is available in 32 …

N.Y. Adds $25 Million in Flood Aid

New York State announced another $25 million in aid is being made available to residents and businesses in flood-stricken communities. That money is in addition to a $35 million aid package Gov. George Pataki announced last week to help flood …

Del. Chief Hails Anti-Fraud, Med Mal Bills; Vows Retry on Credit Score Ban

According to Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn, the 2006 Delaware General Assembly session produced some positive accomplishments, but also left some of what he says are his pro-consumer initiatives undone. “There are a few we won and a few we didn’t,” …

The right time to begin

Nearly five years ago, a group of program specialists gathered in Tempe, Ariz., for the first summit meeting of a budding industry organization called the Target Markets Program Administrators Association. The brainchild of Glenn Clark, owner and president of Wilmington, …

Lawyers Overseeing Lawyers: Can lawyers police themselves? A new look at self-regulation

No country has as many lawyers as the United States – more than 152,000 in California alone – three times as many as in all of France. Nor does any other country rely as heavily on the legal profession to …

New Markets

Outdoor Sports Nuts & Bolts: Markel’s Outdoors is a niche program for guide and outfitting professionals, private sporting clubs and hunting/fishing lodges. Marketed through select retail insurance agents. Dollars: Limits $300 to $1 million. Minimum premiums based on $1 million …

New Markets

Equipment Policies Nuts & Bolts: Britt Paulk Insurance Agency Inc. is offering an equipment policy program that includes agriculture, forestry, construction and lawn and garden. The coverage is first party physical damage for contractors’ equipment. Classes include contractors, agricultural, forestry, …

Lawyers Overseeing Layers

No country has as many lawyers as the United States — more than 152,000 in California alone — three times as many as in all of France. Nor does any other country rely as heavily on the legal profession to …

New Markets

Outdoor Sports Nuts & Bolts: Markel’s Outdoors is a niche program for guide and outfitting professionals, private sporting clubs and hunting/fishing lodges. Marketed through select retail insurance agents. Dollars: Limits $300 to $1 million. Minimum premiums based on $1 million …

CWI Holdings Issues $20 Million Trust Preferred Securities

CWI Holdings Inc., the parent organization of CompWest Insurance Co., announced the issuance of $20 million of trust preferred securities in a private placement by CWI Holdings 2006 Statutory Trust I, a Delaware statutory trust that is wholly-owned by the …