D&O News
SEC, CFTC Penalties More Than $92M Greater With Whistleblower Tipoffs
Promoting and maintaining financial fraud whistleblower programs, such as those of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), is costly. Cases ...
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 ...
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Introduces Side A DIC D&O Liability Policy
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance is rolling out a new executive liability insurance products focused on the D&O space. The Side A DIC Directors & Officers Liability Policy provides ...
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 ...
Three Years Later, Some MF Global Creditors Getting Paid
A large group of creditors of MF Global Holdings Ltd.'s bankrupt brokerage unit will soon receive their first payout, as $518.7 million of checks start to be mailed out on Friday, the third ...
SEC Paying $30M-Plus to Whistleblower in Largest Award Yet
An anonymous tipster living abroad will be receiving more than $30 million, in the largest whistleblower award ever doled out by U.S. securities regulators as part of a program that aims to ...
Willis’ Longmore Joins Marsh’s FINPRO
Marsh has announced that Ann Longmore will join the firm's FINPRO practice in New York as its new multinational practice leader effective July 7. Longmore will be responsible for helping Marsh ...