In a detailed presentation to close the workshops at last week's AIRMIC Conference in Edinburgh, broker HSBC and law firm K&L Gates gave a serious lesson about how the devil is in the details for companies and their Ds & Os looking for the right form of coverage.
Adrian Jenner, who heads HSBC’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Management Liability practices out of London, talked about the evolving D&O structure saying that most companies are pulling back on excess entity coverage for the company’s securities and instead focusing premium spends on coverage for the Directors and Officers themselves as well as for the company.
Adrian further noted that HSBC has just placed D&O policies for 3 clients where there was specific DIC D&O coverage for individual directors, and that all of these clients had taken audit committee Side A coverage as well.
This talk of evolving D&O program structures reminds me that in the PLUS Bermuda D&O Symposium that Dan Bailey suggested separate sublimits for defense claims and expect Advisen to issue a report shortly on rising defense costs and why the end of the Lerach and Weiss era is not as warmly received among underwriters as you might expect.
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