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The Doctors Company, the nation's largest insurer of physician and surgeon medical professional liability, has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase FPIC Insurance Group of Jacksonville, Fla.

The Doctors Company, the nation's largest insurer of physician and surgeon medical professional liability, has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase FPIC Insurance Group of Jacksonville, Fla.

In today’s lending environment, nearly all small and midsize business owners sign a personal guarantee to secure bank financing. This uncomfortable reality—putting a house and other personal assets at risk—can now be mitigated with a new insurance product: personal guarantee insurance.

New rules that expose executives and directors of troubled financial-services institutions to unexpected negative consequences—including the possible loss of their salaries and other compensation—have sparked the creation a new insurance coverage.

with less than two months to go before NRRA becomes the law of the land, clarity and uniformity in regulation of the non-admitted or surplus lines industry seems as distant as it was before the landmark reform and modernization legislation was enacted by Congress as part of the Dodd-Frank financial-services...

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 AirTrans directors and officers would synch up with a worrisome provision of the merger indemnification agreement.