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Directors and Officers Liability Insurance


Total Credits: 3 including 3 CE Credits

Average Rating:
   100
Categories:
Commercial Lines |  Commercial Lines - Specialty Policies
Speaker:
Richard Pitts
Course Levels:
All Levels
Duration:
3 Hours
Format:
Audio and Video
License:
Product Setting: Expires 30 day(s) after program date.

Dates


Description

This seminar is in three parts.  The first addresses the corporate law principles that govern the standard of care for directors and officers.  Simply put, what is the nature of the underlying liability that we are seeking to insure?  After this, the seminar turns to a practical application of the first principles discussed.  What are the current issues directors and officers face, and what are the trends with regard to claims?

This forms the basis of the next section: a discussion of the statistics on severity and frequency of directors and officers claims, along with a few statistics on what actually does drive D&O purchasers and what should drive them to the purchasing decision.  The purchasing decision has to confront the costs in the marketplace as it exists today, and the section concludes with some observations about price and capacity.

The final section is extensive.  It is devoted entirely to the D&O policy forms that producers are likely to encounter.  It also contains an extended discussion on the structural transition from for-profit to non-profit organizations (along with a discussion of why nonprofit directors and officers to consider D&O insurance).

    With claims-made being the predominant form in the D&O world, the seminar detours into what may be a reminder for many insurance professionals – the difference between claims-made and occurrence products and the impact of retroactive dates.  The seminar concludes with a few of the conditions of the standard policy form and some points which may be subject to being negotiated for larger risks.
 

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives
  • Corporate Law Principles
  • Putting those Principles to Work
  • The Marketplace and The Profile of a D&O Purchaser
  • Industry standard D&O forms:  Limits, Conditions and Exclusions

Major Subjects
  • Corporate Law Principles and putting those Principles to work
  • The Marketplace and the profile of a D&O Purchaser
  • Industry Standard D&O forms 

Course Materials

Speaker

Richard Pitts's Profile

Richard Pitts Related Seminars and Products

Vice President and General Counsel

Arlington Roe


Richard S. Pitts is a private practice attorney in the insurance industry.  Rick serves as Vice-President and General Counsel to Arlington/Roe & Co., Inc., an insurance brokerage and managing general agent headquartered in Indianapolis.  Rick also serves as general counsel to the Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana, Inc., as well as its sister organization in Kentucky.  Rick speaks annually at the “Roadshows” in Kentucky and Indiana’s Agency Compliance Seminars and presents various seminars on insurance and employment related matters.  Pitts has also presented continuing education seminars to insurance professionals nationally through industry groups including the National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research.

Rick is a 1983 graduate of Wabash College and a 1986 graduate of Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis.  Pitts clerked for the Honorable Patrick D. Sullivan, a judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals in 1986-87.  Rick is admitted to practice before Indiana state and federal courts, the United States Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and is a member of local, state and national bar associations.  Pitts has tried multiple cases and participated in over seventy appeals.

Pitts is the recipient of the “Excellence in Continuing Legal Education Award” from the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (ICLEF), having served as a panelist and lecturer on a variety of continuing education subjects.  Pitts has co-authored two articles appearing in the Indiana Law Review.       

rpitts@arlingtonroe.com


Dates

Tue, Nov 12, 2024 - 01:00pm to 03:56pm CST
Fri, Nov 22, 2024 - 07:00am to 09:56am CST
Wed, Dec 04, 2024 - 10:00am to 12:56pm CST
Tue, Dec 17, 2024 - 01:00pm to 03:56pm CST
Tue, Jan 14, 2025 - 08:00am to 10:56am CST
Thu, Jan 30, 2025 - 10:00am to 12:56pm CST
Mon, Feb 10, 2025 - 12:00pm to 02:56pm CST
Tue, Feb 18, 2025 - 02:00pm to 04:56pm CST
Mon, Mar 03, 2025 - 08:00am to 10:56am CST
Tue, Mar 18, 2025 - 10:00am to 12:56pm CDT
Fri, Apr 11, 2025 - 12:00pm to 02:56pm CDT
Wed, Apr 30, 2025 - 02:00pm to 04:56pm CDT
Tue, May 13, 2025 - 08:00am to 10:56am CDT
Fri, May 30, 2025 - 10:00am to 12:56pm CDT
Mon, Jun 09, 2025 - 12:00pm to 02:56pm CDT
Tue, Jun 24, 2025 - 02:00pm to 04:56pm CDT
Tue, Jul 15, 2025 - 08:00am to 10:56am CDT
Thu, Jul 31, 2025 - 10:00am to 12:56pm CDT
Fri, Aug 01, 2025 - 12:00pm to 02:56pm CDT
Mon, Aug 18, 2025 - 02:00pm to 04:56pm CDT
Fri, Sep 12, 2025 - 08:00am to 10:56am CDT
Mon, Sep 29, 2025 - 10:00am to 12:56pm CDT
Mon, Oct 13, 2025 - 12:00pm to 02:56pm CDT
Wed, Oct 29, 2025 - 02:00pm to 04:56pm CDT
Mon, Nov 10, 2025 - 08:00am to 10:56am CST
Fri, Nov 14, 2025 - 10:00am to 12:56pm CST
Thu, Dec 11, 2025 - 12:00pm to 02:56pm CST
Tue, Dec 30, 2025 - 02:00pm to 04:56pm CST

State Specific Details

State Approval Information Details TN - This course is approved for 3 hours of credit - #34155

Basic Course Information

Designed For Insurance Agents

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