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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.
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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.
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.
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
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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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