Increasing claim frequency could easily be a result of the economy’s drag on insureds and their clients. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and an insurance policy can look like easy pickin’s.
Some contractual requirements are nearly impossible to fulfill, and others are in conflict with each other. What’s an agent to do?
Continue reading about Your Insureds’ Contractual Requirements – Part 2
Agents are frequently provided insureds’ contract requirements in order to determine insurance needed. But contract requirements can go well beyond limits and Additional Insured status. Does an agent owe a duty to their insured to provide the coverage required by the contract? Or even more frightening — does the agent owe a duty to the insured’s client?
Continue reading about Your Insureds’ Contractual Requirements
Agents frequently insure entities on whose boards they serve. There are inherent conflicts and dangers in this business-building approach. Exercise Caution!
Continue reading about Caution! — Agents on Boards – 2/4/10 Knowledge Knugget
Many agents serve on boards of directors, frequently non-profit, sometimes for-profit, and end up writing the entity’s insurance. From a D&O perspective, this creates an inherent conflict of interest, and from an Agents E&O perspective, often creates an uncovered cause of loss, should a claim arise. I think most agents who write insurance under these [...]
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