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Worldwide Facilities to Offer CBIC Design Professionals Program

Worldwide Facilities has been appointed by CBIC, an RLI Company, to offer its insurance program for design professionals. The program’s target classes include architectural firms, landscape architects, civil and structural engineers, surveyors, and interior designers. Construction and project management consultants …

Ironshore Expands Liability Coverages for Designers, Contractors

Ironshore’s Construction Industry Vertical, in conjunction with Ironshore Specialty Casualty, has expanded its coverage for the designers and contractors sector with a new combination policy covering contractors professional liability, contractors pollution liability and pollution mitigation in a single product suite. …

XL Catlin Updates Coverage for Design Professionals to Address Emerging Risks

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 Strong, chief underwriting officer of XL Catlin’s Design Professional insurance business in North America, …

XL Catlin Enhances Professional Liability Insurance for Small A&E Firms

XL Catlin’s design professional insurance business has increased the limits of its smartADVANTAGE professional liability insurance policy and improved policy terms for architectural and engineering firms in the U.S. with annual fees of $2 million or less. The smartADVANTAGE policy …

XL Catlin Expands Architects & Engineers Product to Cover Drones, Technology Risks

XL Catlin’s Design Professional insurance business has enhanced its professional liability insurance for architects and engineers (A&E) as well as other design professionals. XL Catlin’s newest Design Professional insurance enhancements include: Professional liability protection for a firm’s use of drones …

Schinnerer Unveils New Architects & Engineers Professional Liability Form

Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, an underwriting manager, has launched a new professional liability policy form for design professionals. The new form includes a variety of policy enhancements for large, mid-size, and small architecture, engineering, surveying, and design consultant clients. …

Hill Program Managers, Berkley Custom Insurance Form Underwriting Agreement

Denver-based Hill Program Managers, LLC has formed an agreement to underwrite design professional liability coverage in conjunction with Berkley Custom Insurance Managers, a member company of W. R. Berkley Corp. Hill Programs will underwrite professional liability for architects, engineers, surveyors, …

W. R. Berkley Corp. Creates Berkley Design Professional Underwriters

W. R. Berkley Corp. has launched Berkley Design Professional Underwriters to focus on liability coverage for architects and engineers, nationwide. Products will be distributed through independent agents and underwritten on an admitted basis on behalf of W. R. Berkley Corp. …