NU Online News Service, Nov. 19, 9:43 a.m EST

CHICAGO–Insurers may have contributed to the credit crisis, because misbehaving company management increasingly believes their liability insurance policies protect them, a lawyer suggested at an industry conference last week.

Richard Bortnick, a coverage attorney for Cozen O'Connor in West Conshohocken, Pa. made his remarks at the international conference of the Minneapolis-based Professional Liability Underwriting Society.

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