Insureds buying or selling businesses are beset with many exposures that can be dealt with very elegantly by a management liability (D&O) policy. This is especially important for privately-held businesses.
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 circumstances [...]
D&O policies are not intended to cover professional services, even though the entity and the employees are insured for their wrongful acts.
Continue reading about D&O Policy for Professional Exposures?
For most policies you will ever write, your insured is the entity that is the Named Insured. However, there are a couple of exceptions, and the nature of the exception can affect how you interact with your insureds.
The exception that’s weighing on my mind at the moment is D&O coverage. Even when you write an [...]
