Brokers See More Work, Less Cover On D&O

No matter what line of insurance an agentturns to the story is the same: the only thing certain about thefuture is that premiums are going up. The situation is no differentfor director and officers liability insurance.

Driving increases in D&O, say executives, are the combinedfactors of uncertainty over how much January reinsurance treatyrenewals will increase and the growing number of claims againstcorporations as the economy flounders. Corporations are findingthat merger investments are not turning out as well as they thoughtthey would or accounting changes are causing restatements ofearningsand either event can cause a complaint, one insuranceexecutive said.

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