Vermont Faces New Challenges.
ABROMSON, ELLEN J. Following in Vermont's footsteps, a number of new U.S. jurisdictions are entering the captive insurance market. Will they challenge Vermont's dominance in the captive market? For those who have contemplated them at all, U.S.-domiciled captive insurance companies and Vermont captive insurance companies...

E-commerce And D&O.
E-commerce companies have to address their directors' and officers' liability issues before going public, when there is less risk and the advantage of lower premiums for insurance coverage. With the explosive growth of the Internet, both big businesses and small entrepreneurs, young and old, have entered a...

The high price of misconduct: financial services firms are settling record fines with regulators and this is helping to make directors and officers liability insurance very hard to find at a reasonable price. Buyers will eventually be stuck with higher rates and more restrictions.
In recent years there has been a proliferation of lawsuits and administrative proceedings involving financial institutions. Some involve alleged misconduct of financial institutions, such as the allocation of IPO shares to favorite clients, conflicted research analysts and rapid-fire trading by mutual funds. Others involve activities relating to specific clients...

Emerging e-Business Insurance.
INSUREtrust and Legion Indemnity Co. are offering an insurance coverage for emerging e-business risks. The Electronic Information Errors and Omissions Liability Policy provided by Legion allows insureds to choose from a menu of cover-ages that apply to their operations, such as technology errors and omissions, media or intellectual property...

Healthcare First Offers Internet Policy for Managed Care Organizations.
Policy Underwritten by RLI Insurance Company URAC Accreditation Required to Qualify for Coverage WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare First, a Division of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., announced today the development of the first professional liability insurance policy in the United States...

The E&S market softens up: the E&S market is softening, but a consensus as to whether it's gone soft is lacking. The biggest profits are expected to come from property-catastrophe areas.
The overall property/casualty insurance market has been showing signs of softening, but insiders in the excess and surplus lines market are cautiously optimistic about the state of the industry for 2007. In 2005, the surplus lines market remained fairly stable, despite the decline of the bull market...

The 'cyber' risks of outsourcing: outsourcing does not mean out of mind when it comes to cyberliabilities. Instead, companies with databases full of client and employee information should be even more wary.
Summary * Outsourcing does not mean cyberliability is out of mind. * Instead, companies who outsource are still responsible for the security of confidential customer and employee information. * Mitigation can be provided through vendor management as well as proper insurance. ...

Medical malpractice.
Policies provide professional liability coverage for physicians and other medical professionals against lawsuits alleging negligence or errors and omissions during the care of patients. [GRAPHICS OMITTED] Top U.S. Writers Direct Premiums Written 2007 ($ Millions) Berkshire Hathaway Insurance Group [00811] American international Group Inc [18540]...

Power brokers: entertainment: now you see them, now you don't. Delivering services to meet the needs of commercial buyers in the changing landscape of the media industry belongs to brokers who are swift and shrewd. In the industry of illusion and fantasy, there's no telling where new risks are going to pop up, or disappear.
LeConte Moore Last year, broker LeConte Moore made the big jump from heading up Marsh's Entertainment and Media practice to joining Dewitt Stern, which had been a stately, long-established firm with its roots in insuring New York theater. Moore has now added a slew of...

Joint Venture Goss LLC to Offer Coverage for Automotive Suppliers.
Comprehensive Insurance Package Satisfies Auto Manufacturers' Requirements for Minority Participation TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Goss Group, Inc., Marsh Inc. and the GMAC Insurance Group today announced they have established a joint venture company, Goss LLC, to serve the specific...