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Healthcare Professional Liability Insurance

Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems' Challenges

Bonnie Boone | June 10, 2000

Bonnie Boone highlights some of the important issues that must be considered in managing health care delivery risks and structuring their insurance programs.

Reinsurance

Are Punitive Damage Awards Recoverable under Reinsurance Agreements?

Larry Schiffer | June 1, 2000

The reinsurability of punitive damages depends on the reinsurance contract and the public policy of the relevant jurisdiction, with extracontractual obligations clauses (ECOs) offering some coverage despite state restrictions. Larry Schiffer explains.

Cyber and Privacy Risk and Insurance

First-Party E-Commerce Risks

Michael A. Rossi | June 1, 2000

Mike Rossi examines the gaps in traditional insurance policies with respect to first-party e-commerce risks and discusses some ways to close those gaps.

Time Element

Who's Handling Your Claim? The Professionals Involved in a Business Interruption Claim

Daniel Torpey | June 1, 2000

Learn who your insurers will have on their team handling your company's business interruption claim and who you can recruit to best reciprocate.

Property Insurance

Breach of Policy Conditions and the "Severability of Interests" Doctrine

Douglas Berry | June 1, 2000

Doug Berry discuses what happens in the event of a breach of one or more property insurance policy conditions involving one insured corporation or insured location.

Design and Professional Liability

Project-Specific Professional Liability: Who Really Pays for Design Errors?

David H Collings | May 1, 2000

David Collings looks at professional liability arising out of project design and construction management services.

Cyber and Privacy Risk and Insurance

Bringing Order to Chaos: Insurance Issues for E-Commerce Activities

Michael A. Rossi | May 1, 2000

The insurance industry has developed insurance products expressly designed to insure third-party liability and first-party risks related to e-commerce activities. Other insurers counter that new policies are not needed or that it is impossible to underwrite the risks being underwritten by these new policies. Mike Rossi explains.

Environmental

The US Environmental Liability Insurance Market—Reaching New Frontiers

John Hannah | May 1, 2000

The number and types of environmental insurance markets and products offered has increased dramatically in recent years. This article looks at the trends and events surrounding the market and provides a snapshot of the current environmental insurance marketplace.

Additional Insured Issues

Planning Around the "Other Insurance" Clause in the Subcontractor's Policy

Joseph Postel | April 1, 2000

Joe Postel explains how the Illinois Supreme Court decided that when a general contractor's risk transfer plan is thwarted by the subcontractor's other insurance clause, the general contractor can neutralize the subcontractor's other insurance clause simply by making his own liability insurance 'unavailable.'

Risk and Insurance History

How Umbrella Policies Started Part 2: the First Umbrella Forms

Jim Robertson | April 1, 2000

Jim Robertson discusses developments in blanket liability, other concepts that led to the creation of the first umbrella coverage forms, and the development of the American market for umbrellas after 1957.

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