D&O News
Tower Group, Meadowbrook Filing Delays Prompt Shareholder Investigations
After two property/casualty insurers—Tower Group International Ltd. and Meadowbrook Insurance Group—said they would delay scheduled Securities and Exchange (SEC) filings last week, law firms set ...
SEC Bans Gupta From Director, Officer Roles; Imposes $13.9M Fine
Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director Rajat Gupta was ordered to pay a $13.9 million civil penalty and banned from serving as an officer or director of a public company for having illegally passed ...
UK Fraud Prosecutor Charges Two Brokers In LIBOR Probe
Britain's fraud prosecutor on Monday charged two former brokers at interdealer broker RP Martin with rigging LIBOR benchmark interest rates, broadening the scope of the investigation into the scandal ...
Countrywide Board, CEO Mozilo Should Face Investors’ Claims, Court Told
Former Countrywide Financial Corp. directors, including ex-Chief Executive Officer Angelo Mozilo, should be forced to face claims that they misled investors about the quality of the mortgage-lender's ...
EPLI in Southern California Playing ‘Hard’ to Get
Employment practices liability in California is a growing concern for insurers, agents and employers, and that concern has some carriers ramping up rates dramatically or quietly pulling back from the ...
IPO-Seeking China Companies Pay More to Avoid Boards Going Naked
Stephen Markscheid holds one of the riskiest jobs in the world—or so say directors and officers liability insurers. The 59-year-old former banker, a Mandarin-speaking American, sits on the boards ...
How They Rank: Fitch Reports On Top D&O Insurers
Directors and officers liability insurance premium rates were previously lagging the market recovery in the broader commercial lines segment, but pricing trends are now catching up, Fitch Ratings ...
D&O Pricing Catching Up To Loss Trends: Fitch
Direct written premiums for the directors and officers liability insurance line rose 6.9 percent last year, according to a recent analysis by Fitch Ratings, which also shows that direct loss ratios ...