Professional Liability Underwriting Society

• IQ: Torus Surveys PLUS About Market Trends

  By Industry IQ  |  January 1, 2013

  According to a recent Torus survey, 87 percent of Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) members believe management liability will increase in 2013.

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  In Social Media Age, Liability for Small- & Mid-Size Cos. Growing

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  December 4, 2012

  Because more small- and medium-size companies are incorporating social media into their businesses, insurance professionals believe their clients’ risk exposure will grow in the coming year, according to a survey released by specialty-insurer Torus.

• Professional Liability Rates Expected to Increase in 2013

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  November 27, 2012

  Professional and management liability rates are expected to increase in 2013 by up to 10 percent, says the majority of industry professionals in a recent survey.

• Former Aon CEO: Specialty Skills Key to Success

  By Mark E. Ruquet  |  February 24, 2012

  Develop a specialty in the insurance business and you will never have to worry about staying employed, Patrick G. Ryan, founder and former chief executive of the insurance-brokerage firm Aon, declared during a Feb. 16 address in New York.

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  Ryan: Specialty Skills Key to Success

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 17, 2012

  Develop a specialty in the insurance business and you will never have to worry about staying employed, declared Patrick G. Ryan, the founder and former chief executive of the insurance-brokerage firm Aon in an address in New York yesterday.

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  Survey Reveals a Professional Lines Market in Flux: Torus

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  November 17, 2011

  Nearly of a third of participants in a Torus survey say pricing uncertainty is a major concern for the management and professional liability insurance market.

• NRAA Grows Up Fast

  By Louie Castoria  |  September 1, 2011

  FIO may rescue gaps left in the Dodd-Frank Act

• D&O Insurers Scrutinize Regulatory Exclusions

  February 21, 2011

  For directors and officers liability insurers facing a potential influx of claims arising from lawsuits that banking regulators are filing against their insureds, a key question is whether regulatory exclusions in their policies will hold up.

• Did Government Bailouts Save D&O Market From Side-A Debacle?

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 21, 2011

  The combination of corporate bankruptcies, high-dollar shareholder derivative lawsuit settlements and declines in Side-A pricing may soon turn a profitable niche of the directors and officers liability insurance market into a money loser, carrier executives say.

• D&O Insurers Getting Notices For FDIC Claims; Lawsuits Expected To Mushroom

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 21, 2011

  The long-anticipated flood of FDIC lawsuits against directors and officers of failed banks has started, according to experts who explained the delay and the coverage issues during two recent seminars.

• Were Reg Exclusions Added In Time?

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 21, 2011

  For directors and officers liability insurers facing a potential influx of claims arising from lawsuits that banking regulators are filing against their insureds, a key question is whether regulatory exclusions in their policies will hold up.

• Change In ‘Market Psyche’ Could Fuel Near-Term Turn, Marsh CEO Says

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 14, 2011

  Market psyche change, not cat event, needed to turn the market, Marsh CEO Duperreault says, predicting one will come sooner rather than later.

• Dodd-Frank Would Not Have Prevented AIG Bailout, Former Fin’l Regulators Say

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 14, 2011

  If the Dodd-Frank Act had been in place years ago, regulators probably still would not have intervened to stop problems at American International Group’s Financial Products unit, three former U.S. financial regulators said earlier this month.

• D&O Insurers Getting Notices For FDIC Claims; Lawsuits Expected To Mushroom

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 11, 2011

  The long-anticipated flood of FDIC lawsuits against directors and officers of failed banks has started, according to experts who explained the delay and the coverage issues during two recent seminars.

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  Dodd-Frank Would Not Have Prevented AIG Bailout, Former Fin’l Regulators Say

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 7, 2011

  If the Dodd-Frank Act had been in place years ago, regulators probably still would not have intervened to stop problems at American International Group’s Financial Products unit, three former U.S. financial regulators said last week.

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  Duperreault: Major Event Not The Only Way To Turn Market

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 3, 2011

  The insurance cycle is not dead, and the return to a hard market could come without a multibillion-dollar catastrophic event driving the turn, a broker executive said yesterday.