Kansas News

Euclid’s BusinessWare Packages Liability for Service Professionals

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 policy form. Some of the built-in protections include errors …

AXIS Capital to Acquire Aon’s Media/Professional Insurance

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 specializing in professional liability lines of business, from AON Underwriting Managers. Headquartered …

Media professionals want to know: what’s fair use of copyrighted video?

Viacom-YouTube lawsuit, breakthrough insurance product for docemantarians shine spotlight on media liability Media liability has taken center stage as the result of two recent developments, one a lawsuit by a media conglomerate challenging a new media company’s use of copyrighted …

My New Markets

Community Banks Nuts & Bolts: Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. has added a new coverage to its American Bankers Association-sponsored Financial Institution Program. The new coverage, Privacy Liability and Mitigation Expense, is designed to address banks’ liability arising from unauthorized access …

My New Markets

Social Service Organizations Nuts & Bolts: Riverport Insurance Co. provides property, general liability, professional liability, automobile, crime, and excess liability coverages for social service and nonprofit organizations with flexible premium payment plans. Riverport is a Berkley company. Limits vary. Carrier: …

The New Frontier

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 companies are inherently creative and …

Media professionals want to know: what’s fair use of copyrighted video?

Media liability has taken center stage as the result of two recent developments, one a lawsuit by a media conglomerate challenging a new media company’s use of copyrighted video clips and the other, an insurance product that provides protection for …

My New Markets

Community Banks Nuts & Bolts: Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. has added a new coverage to its American Bankers Association-sponsored Financial Institution Program. The new coverage, Privacy Liability and Mitigation Expense, is designed to address banks’ liability arising from unauthorized access …

Kansas State’s new lab on front lines of biosecurity

Randy Phebus, food microbiologist and professor of food safety and security at Kansas State University, didn’t get much of a response when he first proposed the idea of a new lab that would aim to protect the nation’s food supply. …

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Motorcycle Program Nuts & Bolts: Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc.’s Personal Lines Division has expanded its motorcycle program to Pennsylvania. Coverage is being provided by a carrier rated “A-” by A.M. Best. Coverages range from $15,000/$30,000 to $100,000/$300,000. There is …