With new coverages evolving and the SEC setting its sights on increased enforcement activities, specialty insurance coverage for regulatory investigations is a hot topic among buyers and sellers of management liability insurance. Brokers assess the options and price trends.

The details of the fine print of a merger agreement—or a D&O liability insurance policy—can be daunting. But when Southwest Airlines closed its $1 billion-plus deal to buy AirTran two weeks ago, it did so knowing that language of a tail-coverage endorsement it bought for AirTran’s directors and officers would...

Late last month, I received an e-mail with an unusual subject line: “1947 Commemorative 50th anniversary edition.”

Using his firm’s scoring method to gauge insurers’ financial strength, ALIRT Principal David Paul notes that specialty-insurer composite scores are less volatile than composites for the entire commercial-insurance industry over the long term.

The recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan are spurring interest in the earthquake Difference In Conditions (DIC) product at V3 Insurance Partner, according to President and CEO Susan Rivera.

During a week that had an abundance of news stories directly impacting property and casualty insurers, NU’s editors had a choice to make regarding what to feature on the cover of this edition.

In spite of competitive conditions in the specialty program business segment, an insurance industry analyst doesn’t see any flashing red alerts signaling major troubles ahead for program carriers so far in 2011.

It may have seemed like horrible timing when Susan Rivera was starting up a program business-focused MGA in late 2009, but there were several advantages to launching in the wake of a global financial crisis and about six years into a soft property and casualty insurance market, she says.