E&S/Specialty

The Texas Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Association (TPCIGA), which pays covered claims when an insurer becomes insolvent, announced the re-election of Lee Ann Alexander as chair of its board of directors.

Eighteen Democratic senators have written congressional leaders and the White House urging that the final health care reform bill draft include language repealing the antitrust exemption afforded health and medical liability insurers.

Insurance companies with finance arms and $50 billion in assets would be subject to a federal tax on liabilities under a proposal unveiled today by the Obama administration.

The International Insurance Society announced that Frank O'Halloran, chief executive officer of Sidney-based QBE Insurance Group, is the 2010 Insurance Hall of Fame winner.

When contractors are in the market for insurance, they may focus solely on cost and coverage level.

Professional liability brokers repeatedly receive requests from insureds to add the insureds' clients onto their errors and omissions policies as additional insureds. As outsourcing has become more prevalent, so has this request.