Brokers Face Biggest Pro Liability Challenge Spitzer suit will impact business practices, but effect on pricing seen as limited

How can participants in the professional liability industry possibly hold themselves out to directors and officers, professional firms and large organizations as being knowledgeable about managing and addressing their exposures in the wake of the broker-insurer bid-rigging scandal? “How can we expect our clients to have confidence in us when it?s so clear that we have neither business sense nor an ethical compass?”

Those were the rhetorical questions that one professional liability insurance expert raised in a discussion with National Underwriter about the implications of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's investigation and lawsuit against Marsh & McLennan.

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