Nurse's professional liability insurance was not applicable.
CASE ON POINT: Wentzvill Park Associates, L.P. v. American Casulty Ins. Co., (09/02/2008) S.W.3d--MO (2008) ISSUE: No nurse should practice nursing without their own private, professional liability insurance. There are a panoply of situations in which nurse's employer's professional liability insurance policies do not apply.! In such...

OneBeacon Professional Partners Introduces Employed Lawyers Professional Liability Insurance.
CANTON, Mass., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OneBeacon Professional Partners, a member of OneBeacon Insurance Group , today announced a new Employed Lawyers Professional Liability product. Said Paul Ablan, OneBeacon Professional Partners' senior vice president and managing director of professional liability, "In today's highly regulated and ever-changing environment,...

PIMS Debuts New Data Privacy and Network Risk Liability Insurance Coverage.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-19 August 2008-PIMS Debuts New Data Privacy and Network Risk Liability Insurance Coverage(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Responding to the escalating risks posed by the growing use of technology, including the transmission, and storing of confidential medical and financial information, Premier Management Services (PIMS)...

Rules To Change Regarding Employer Liability Insurance Certificates.
As of 1 October 2008, employers will be allowed to display their employers' liability certificate in an electronic format, so long as it remains readily accessible by all employees. In addition, the requirement for employers to retain copies of their certificates for 40 years will be removed. These changes...

Is the credit crisis a black hole for D&O liability insurance?
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2008 issue of AKO'S Policyholder Advisor Will the credit crisis, like a black hole, draw most financial institutions—including major insurance companies —inwards towards crushing destruction? Have we passed a "point of no return" in the credit crisis and will the...

Employers' Liability Insurance: "Exposure" Basis For Mesothelioma Claims.
On Friday, the High Court ruled in the Employers' Liability Policy "Triggers" Litigation that employers' liability insurers remained liable to pay compensation for mesothelioma caused by exposure to asbestos in the work place if they insured the employer at the time the exposure occurred. Traditionally, EL Insurers'...

FL: ambiguities in professional liability policy: ambiguities construed against insurance cos.
CASE FACTS: Sara Campbell was a patient at the podiatric practice of Drs. Beth Pearce and Brett Cutler. On March 27, 2002, Campbell complained of heel pain and Dr. Pearce ordered an x-ray of her foot. While a certified x-ray technician was positioning Campbell's foot to take the x-ray,...

Risk on the rails: America's railroads are required to transport hazardous materials--but liability insurance is expensive and limited.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Early on Jan. 6, 2005, a Norfolk Southern freight train with 42 cars slammed into another train parked on a side track next to a textile mill in Graniteville, S.C. Three locomotives and 17 cars derailed, including three pressurized tank cars. One of the tank...

Florida Supreme Court Favorably Revises Its Prior Ruling That Certain Commercial General Liability Insurance Policies Cover Repair Or Replacement Of Property Damage That Results From The Defective Work Of Subcontractors.
This is an update to our January 2008 Client Alert, informing you about two important cases decided by the Florida Supreme Court. These two decisions, U.S. Fire Ins. Co. v. J.S.U.B., Inc. and Auto-Owners Ins. Co. v. PozziWindow Co., resolved previously conflicting Florida law to provide coverage for third-party...

Combining ANP and TOPSIS concepts for evaluation the performance of property-liability insurance companies.
INTRODUCTION According to Sweden Reinsurance sigma 2007 global insurance industry statistical data, North America total premium income shares rate is 35.66%, the Europe premium income is 33.55%. Regarding the ratios of premium income derived from property-liability versus life insurance: in North America the ratio was about 1:0.82,...