directors and officers News
Whistleblower Tips Up in 2014: SEC
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission received more than 3,500 tips from whistleblowers in fiscal year 2014, the largest number received since the program went into effect three years ago. The ...
Primary, Excess Layer D&O Pricing Still Moving in Opposite Directions: Aon
Overall price declines for directors and officers liability insurance programs of publicly traded companies continue to be driven by excess-layer price drops, Aon's Financial Services Group concluded ...
Top 25 D&O Insurers Show Healthy Growth: SNL
Direct premiums written for the directors and officers liability insurance industry grew 7.35 percent year over year in the first half of 2014, rising to $2.91 billion, according to an SNL Financial ...
Business Urging Delaware Lawmakers Not to Block ‘Loser-Pays’ Bylaws
Big Business is lobbying Delaware lawmakers for corporate bylaws to shift legal fees to shareholders who sue and lose, which legal experts say could curtail a booming type of investor class actions. ...
Why Credit Suisse Got a Bigger Penalty than UBS: Lack of Cooperation Tied to Swiss Laws
U.S. prosecutors first raised the specter of a criminal plea by Credit Suisse Group AG more than two years after starting an investigation into whether the Swiss bank had helped wealthy Americans ...
Hiscox, Beazley Join Forces to Offer $50M of D&O Capacity
Lloyd's of London insurers Beazley and Hiscox have partnered to offer brokers and clients a D&O consortium through which the syndicates will provide materially higher limits and offer additional ...
Judge Strine Nominated to Lead Delaware’s Supreme Court
Leo Strine, the outspoken chief judge of Delaware's nationally important business court, has been nominated to lead the state's Supreme Court, Delaware Governor Jack Markell said last Wednesday. The ...
Wall Street Broker Contests SEC’s Probe with Harassment Lawsuit
Companies usually keep a low profile when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigates them. Robert DePalo decided to sue. DePalo is accusing the SEC of asking investors "leading and ...