Directors and officers liability coverage is not uniform throughout the world, and insurance purchased for a multinational firm in the United States does not necessarily extend to other countries, brokerage executives said.

Their comments were delivered during a Marsh brokerage seminar on "The New Reality of Risk."

Nick Foord-Kelcey, a managing director of Marsh and head of D&O practice in Europe, and Stuart Hill, an attorney with the law firm Lovells LLP in London, said not all nations recognize nonadmitted D&O coverage and a close reading and understanding of local requirements is necessary to make sure executives have the right coverage where they work.

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