Commercial Lines

For public companies navigating the continuing fallout from the global financial meltdown, dealing with regulatory investigations is about as inevitable as death and taxes. D&O insurance products are evolving to cover some of the costs.

When Southwest Airlines closed its $1 billion-plus deal to buy AirTran two weeks ago, it did so knowing that language of a tail-coverage endorsement it bought for AirTrans directors and officers would synch up with a worrisome provision of the merger indemnification agreement.

After initial fear that tax-sharing agreements of surplus-lines taxes could be doomed, there is new optimism that the vast majority of states will enter into some arrangement.

A prominent New York attorney known as the "Queen of Torts" for her defense of top companies like State Farm is tackling a vastly different job — running the $2.78 billion fund to compensate ground zero workers and others who say they were sickened by the Sept. 11, 2001, terror...

While at the RIMS 2011 conference in Vancouver, we talked pricing, emerging risks, competitive advantages and industry-wide challenges with Hank Watkins, president of Lloyd's North America, Tim McAuliffe, president of specialty casualty at Ironshore and Rudi Flunger, chief marketing officer of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions.

Will a California hotel union demand that employeres use flat instead of fitted sheets cause an increase in workers' comp claims? American Agent & Broker columnist Barry Zalma sounds off on this video from Fox Business News.