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Master the Nuances of Specialty Lines

Specialty lines encompasses multiple coverages that are crucial to companies, including cyber insurance, professional liability insurance, and management liability insurance, which encompasses D&O liability insurance, EPL insurance, and fiduciary liability insurance.

We're here to give you guidance on mitigating the exposures companies face and insuring these risks. We also analyze these policies to explain coverage nuances, identify potential coverage gaps or limitations, and offer suggestions. You can also access market survey reports analyzing the critical differences in professional liability insurers' coverage, market appetite, and capacity.


Featured Expert Commentary

Professional, D and O, and Fiduciary Liability

Courts Limit Insurer Liability and Increase Agent Responsibilities

February 29, 2024 | Frederick J Fisher

Cyber and Privacy Risk and Insurance

Considerations on AI and Insurance

December 20, 2023 | Mark Lanterman

Cyber and Privacy Risk and Insurance

Data Retention Policies as Proactive Breach Mitigation

October 06, 2023 | Mark Lanterman

Insurance Agent E and O

Agents: Reach Out to Your "E&O Tag Team"

September 29, 2023 | Brent Winans


Webinar: D&O Insurance Issues for Privately Held Middle Market Companies

D&O expert Mike Rossi will begin with a brief overview of why every private company should buy D&O insurance, and then move quickly into wording and coverage issues to consider when structuring a D&O insurance program for a privately held middle market company. He will cover wording changes to try to negotiate in Primary and Excess policies to improve off-the-shelf coverage. Because most D&O insurers do not negotiate wordings for their private company offerings as readily as they do for their public company offerings, he will also suggest program structure strategies to maximally protect the personal assets of a private company’s directors and officers. For example, one such strategy is buying Excess/DIC Side A insurance. Another strategy to use once Excess/DIC Side A is purchased, is adding the Side A Match coverage feature on the Primary and Excess ABC policies. Both strategies will be explained in detail.

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Professional Liability Insurance

This reference empowers you to confidently evaluate, negotiate, and arrange almost any type of professional, errors and omissions (E&O), or management liability insurance program. You'll get actionable recommendations and useful insight into E&O, medical and nonmedical professional, and management liability exposures and insurance.

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D&O MAPS

D&O MAPS provides a comprehensive analysis of more than 300 available D&O liability policies by company and category. Each analysis highlights policy provisions that are broader or more restrictive than standard. This allows for fast, easy comparison of forms and quickly reveals both strengths and weaknesses in every insurer's policy. 

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Free Specialty Lines Newsletter

Subscribe to the free Specialty Lines Compass newsletter and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in D&O, along with professional, cyber, and EPL coverages.

Employment Practices Liability Consultant

Employment Practices Liability Consultant (EPLiC) addresses the legal, regulatory, human resources, and insurance coverage issues you need to develop leading-edge risk management and insurance solutions for these daunting loss exposures.

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The Betterley Report

The Betterley Report provides a series of highly acclaimed market survey reports on six specialty insurance products, including technology E&O and cyber/privacy liability. Each report features exhibits of the critical differences in insurers' coverage, market appetite, capacity, and many other product features.

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