NU Online News Service, May 7, 12:14 p.m. EDT

Practicing what they preach in terms of personal risk management, more than 96 percent of independent agents and brokers responding to a recent online survey said they carried errors and omissions insurance.

Additionally, many were carrying more comprehensive coverage--including prior acts (69 percent), first-dollar defense (58 percent), aggregate deductibles (51 percent), carrier insolvency (50 percent), and defense outside the limit (47 percent).

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