Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance stepped up to help insure pop-up COVID clinics, playing a small but critical role in battling the pandemic.

2021 is set to be a pivotal year for the professional liability insurance markets.

As workplaces attempt to reopen following COVID-19 shutdowns, employers need to take EPLI coverage into consideration.

A variety of factors, including COVID-19 losses, Nat CATS and social inflation, are driving rate increases.

Senior leadership must begin to rethink youth protection by building systems that create a clear path of accountability.

Professional liability, health care and casualty are the three primary underwriting focuses of Bowhead Specialty, founded by serial insurance entrepreneur Stephen Sills.

Allied World’s Kelly Doherty Schaffner discusses her career, the trends in general and professional liability claims and the effects of social inflation.

Perhaps not surprisingly, trusts and estate law are where malpractice claims seen to becoming more painful. It’s too soon to say how much of an impact on claims costs the pandemic will have.

Allied World’s Joyce Duarte talks to Risk & Insurance about opportunity within professional lines management and what risks are proving difficult for underwriters. 

Nonprofit management liability veteran Keith Freid talks to Risk & Insurance about trends in underwriting the sector.

When professional services firms are sued by clients, the likelihood of an insurance claim increases when the client suffers a significant loss. Now’s the time to get a grip on the claims landscape and prepare risk management tools to assess and address exposures.

Experts say D&O capacity will continue to be constrained for the foreseeable future. Rates can also be expected to continue their rise.

AIG-veteran Glenn Clark has built an enviable career in commercial insurance. The founder of Target Markets, he is now owner of Rockwood Programs, a specialist in the management and professional liability space.

After a damaging winter storm in 2011, officials in Texas received recommendations on weatherizing the state’s grid. Those recommendations were not followed, and in 2021, Texans paid a big price.

Telehealth is likely to remain a main avenue for receiving health consultations. It is also likely to experience hiccups along the way. Insurers need to accept both realities. 

Many workers are celebrating an extensive work-from-home option, but physical and mental injuries may go undetected.

As patients and providers become more digitally connected, greater dependency on technology increases privacy and security concerns.

It seems clear that telemedicine is here to stay, which means the insurance industry has a need to fill to match this emerging exposure with policy language to suit and coverage to follow.

While avoiding the risk of community spread by having classes exclusively online is not feasible for many colleges, the risk of spreading the virus can be reduced by banning all mass gatherings, including college football practices, on campus.

Wholesale brokers are seeing a surge in D&O submissions thanks to the hard market and punishing price increases in the primary market.