TIPAAA Selects Darwin to Present Competitive, Top-Quality Health Care Solutions to TIPAAA Membership.
FARMINGTON, Conn., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Darwin National Assurance Company, a member company of Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd , announced today that it has been selected by The IPA Association of America (TIPAAA) to offer health care professional liability coverage to its membership of more than 300,000...

E&Q for Agents.
Insurance companies that sponsor agents who are involved in the sale and servicing of property/casualty insurance can now look to Zurich U.S. for errors and omissions coverage. The Zurich U.S. product is designed for property/casualty insurance agents with a contract agent force of at least 500. The coverage includes:...

Valuable new benefit option offered to ACFEI members: Forensic Testimony Liability coverage.
The American College of Forensic Examiners International (ACFEI) has recently partnered with The Krist Insurance Group LLC to offer Forensic Testimony Hability coverage to our members. The Krist Insurance Group has entered into an exclusive relationship with an A++ A.M. best rated insurance carrier to market this important liability...

Insurance: nurse's own policy will pay first $100,000, court says.
The parents filed a lawsuit against the hospital where their baby was born with cerebral palsy allegedly caused by the negligence of the physician and two labor and delivery nurses who were present for the mother's labor. One of the two nurses relieved the other at 3:00...

10 tips for reducing your E & O exposure.
Over the past 12 years, Liability Insurance Administrators has compiled a variety of Claim Alerts based on the breadth of errors and omissions claims it has received. The following is a quick overview of tips appraisers can keep in mind, and put into practice, to minimize their E &...

Talent and intensity in Beantown: a Regional Tale on a Global Scale.
Tom Slattery: Describe your business for us. Phil Edmundson: We're an insurance broker and benefits consultant for companies' high-severity risk exposures, with more complicated risk problems than the average business. For example, the life sciences, where companies are exposed to mass torts for product liability....

BPOs, IT cos scout for cyber insurance.
Byline: Debjoy Sengupta KOLKATA: Virtual crime is climbing. Cyber frauds, hacking and data theft by employees or outsiders in BPOs, IT & ITeS as well as e-commerce companies are on the rise. And this is exactly why more and more e-commerce entities , BPOs as well as...

IT cos seek insurance cover against virtual fraud.
Byline: Debjoy Sengupta (##include msid=2459375,type=9 ##) KOLKATA: Virtual crime is climbing. Cyber frauds, hacking and data theft by employees or outsiders in BPOs, IT & ITeS as well as e-commerce companies are on the rise. And this is exactly why more and more...

Power brokers: technology-software.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Yvonne Cho Vice President Marsh San Francisco In an industry where change is the only constant, brokers need to understand a company's current business but also how that business will change in the future. Yvonne Cho, a...

Patchwork silt: mending an existing legacy insurance policy with technology coverage is worth its weight in mud. Such patchwork is insufficient, and only a new approach recognizes the importance of computer systems and networks to the success of the enterprise.
A lot of attention has been focused on computer network liability and technology insurance lately, and with good reason. Rarely a week passes without a report of data loss from a carefully planned network security breach or identity-theft incident. Are stolen laptops a liability? Yes. But that's just one...