Zurich focuses on midsize technologycustomers
Zurich is providing a range of coverages designed specifically formidsize technology accounts and businesses with risks inelectronics manufacturing, information technology, digital andelectronic communications, factory automation and medicaltechnology. Coverages include the Property Portfolio Protection(P3) form and E&O insurance, as well as standard policies forgeneral liability, business auto, umbrella and workerscompensation.

The P3 form's options include coverage for restoring vitalproprietary business information stored on various media, lossesinvolving research and development activities, and contingentbusiness interruption of subcontracted operations anywhere in theworld. The E&O coverage addresses specific needs, such asclaims that hardware or software failed to perform as expected,causing economic loss.
For more information, visit www.zurichna.com.Zurich enhances D&O coverage for middle-marketcompanies
Zurich announced an expanded D&O liability insurance policy forNorth American middle-market companies. The product, which includesseveral management liability coverages under one form, targetsprivate and not-for-profit companies with up to $750 million inassets and fewer than 1,500 employees.
The carrier's recently enhanced risk management tools include ahotline service offering customers advice from senior-levelattorneys, and complimentary memberships in the Society for HumanResource Professionals and HR Care, an online employmentresource.
For more information, visit www.zurichna.com.Philadelphia Insurance announces new museumproduct
Philadelphia Insurance Co. announced a new product designed formuseums. The product's property insurance includes cost provisionsand provides ordinance or law coverage. General liability risksaddressed include abuse and molestation, special events and daycamps. The carrier also provides comprehensive management liabilityinsurance for museums with its Flexi Plus Five product, whichincludes D&O, employment practices, fiduciary, Internetliability, employed lawyers, crime and workplace violencecoverages. The form addresses unique exposures such as third-partyliability, publishing liability and Internet-based risks. Numerouscoverage options are available.
Eligible classes of museums include history, art and science,children's, cultural and ethnic, military and maritime, media andphotography, science, technology, sports, textile andtransportation, plus historic sites and buildings, historicalsocieties, planetariums and observatories, and libraries.
For more information, call Paula Negro at (800) 873-4552, Ext.3227, or visit www.phly.com.AIG Executive Liability introduces not-for-profit liabilitycoverage
AIG Executive Liability, a division of the property-casualtysubsidiaries of American International Group Inc., announcedNot-for-Profit Risk Protector, a modular package of managementliability coverages for not-for-profit organizations. The coveragesinclude D&O, EPL, fiduciary liability, fidelity and crime,employed lawyers professional liability and kidnap andransom/extortion provided in conjunction with AIG WorldSource.Organizations can purchase some or all of the coverage options andcombine them into one program having shared or separate limits.Coverage includes access to AIG Executive Liability's panelcounsel, comprised of employment practices attorneys.
For more information, e-mail [email protected]or visit www.aignationalunion.com.CNA announces D&O, E&O coverage for private equity,venture capital firms
CNA Specialty announced D&O and E&O coverage designedspecifically for private equity and venture capital firms whosefunds range up to $5 billion in committed capital. Highlightsinclude entity coverage for securities, professional services andEPL claims; outside entity executive liability coverage for privateand nonprofit companies; formal investigations coverage; andpunitive damages coverage.
For more information, visit www.cnapro.com/html/Our_Products/OurProducts_DO.html.Markel Insurance Co. expands social servicesprogram
Markel Insurance Co. expanded its social services program toinclude the following classes:
–Community housing: Housing facilities for the physically ormentally handicapped, seniors, and supervised and independentliving.
–Health-care clinics: Neighborhood free clinics, non-emergencyoutpatient clinics, drug screening and testing, familyplanning/pregnancy, health assessments, HIV testing, immunizationsand physical rehabilitation.
–Substance abuse recovery clinics: Counseling, halfway houses andgroup homes, and substance abuse recovery on an outpatient orinpatient basis.
Coverage includes general liability ($1 million/$3 million), andumbrella liability (up to $10 million). Liability risks coveredinclude sexual abuse/molestation, professional liability, childabduction, special events, D&O and actions of volunteers. Thepackage also includes commercial property extension endorsements,and coverage for systems breakdown and key employee replacement.Auto, accident medical, business income, crime and inland marineinsurance also are provided.
For more information, visit www.markelinsurance.com.Progressive Group extends first-party auto coverage topets
The Progressive Group of Insurance Cos.announced that its auto policy with collision coverage will coverits customers' pet dogs and cats in most states. The policy willpay up to $500 if a pet is hurt or dies as a result of an autoaccident. Typically in the event of an accident, the insured'spolicy provides benefits only for pets in the other person's car,not the insured's own pets.
For more information, visit www.progressive.com.America First grows commercial lines
AmericaFirst Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, expanded itscommercial lines offering to include commercial generalcontractors, restaurants and monoline workers compensation. Allappointed agents in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas haveaccess to these new classes of business.
In the commercial general contracting class, the company will focuson contractors with annual gross receipts of up to $25 million thatprimarily construct office buildings with fewer than five stories,retail strip centers, churches, schools and prefabricatedbuildings. In the new restaurant class, the carrier seeks to writefine dining establishments located in ISO Protection Classes 1-7,with ISO Construction Class ratings of 2 or higher. Agents can alsooffer workers compensation insurance on a monoline basis, subjectto a $50,000 minimum premium, or continue to offer any size workerscompensation policies as part of a package.
For more information, visit www.americafirst-ins.com.Philadelphia Insurance Cos. introduces day spaproduct
Philadelphia Insurance Cos. introduced a day spa product forindependently operated facilities. The policy offers comprehensivegeneral liability and commercial auto insurance. Property coveragefeatures include pollutant cleanup and removal, personal effects,property of others, accounts receivable, business income and extraexpense, ordinance or law, and EDP equipment and media. Eligibleoperations include massages, facials, manicures and pedicures,microdermabrasion, waxing, tanning and hydrotherapy.
For more information, call Paula Negro at (800) 873-4552, Ext.3227, or visit www.phly.com.