The Rise and Fall of Bill Lerach, a documentary created for the 2008 PLUS International Conference and then again played at the 2009 PLUS D&O Symposium, has been posted online for viewing by PLUS Members.

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Would adoption of a single policy form for multicarrier excess liability coverage give Bermuda a competitive advantage, or commoditize the product and dilute the value individual insurers bring to the table? That was a key point of contention earlier this week here at the Professional Liability Underwriting Society’s “Bermuda Perspective” conference.

In struggling to differentiate Bermuda as a market, while striving to standardize coverage terms and conditions to save time and money, some Bermuda players are backing the single-form concept for multiple layers of coverage provided by a group of excess insurance carriers.

Read the National Underwriter article drawn from a panel at the PLUS Bermuda Perspectives Symposium here on the National Underwriter website.

Risk management practices have become critical to health care facilities attempting to reduce liability, and medical provider risk managers wrestling with advances in technology and heightened patient expectations are trying to ensure their programs don't fall by the wayside, experts say.

"Risk management has come to the forefront in the last 10 years," said Paul Greve, senior vp in the health care practice of Willis Group Holdings Ltd. in Nashville. He participated in a session at the Professional Liability Underwriting Society's Medical Professional Liability Symposium March 11-12 in Chicago.

Read the full article here on BusinessInsurance.Com.

Looking forward to the 2008 PLUS Medical PL Symposium March 11 & 12 in Chicago, we are posting this clip from the 2007 PLUS International Conference held in November in Washington, DC.

In it, panel moderator Angela Williams Russell talks with Charles Citrin, MD,  Susan Durbin Kinter and Joshua Stein about the newer technology of telemedicine, the inherent risks involved, and how to underwrite these risks.

In this clip from the 2008 PLUS D&O Symposium, John Rafferty, Vice President with Hartford Financial Products, sets out a great overview of the issues surrounding the subprime and larger credit crisis that we are facing.  Panelist Bain Head, Senior Vice President with McGriff, Siebels & Williams, then gives her predictions of where the subprime crisis is going, and what the resulting effect on D&O will be.

This is a clip from the 2008 PLUS D&O Symposium held in New York City.  More than 1300 professionals gathered to hear the latest information on the D&O industry.

In this clip, there is an introduction to the topic, and then two questions answered:

What coverage opportunities are there for brokers and underwriters as they approach the private equity industry?

What do you predict for the private equity market five years from now?

Susanne Scalfane with National Underwriter Online News Service has a great article detailing the world of class action lawsuits based on comments made by the opening panel of the 2008 PLUS D&O Symposium.

Read the full article here at the National Underwriter website.

David Katz from CFO.com reports on the keynote address by William Donaldson, former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman and Wednesday Luncheon Keynote at the 2008 PLUS D&O Symposium held February 6 & 7, 2008 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City.

Read the full article behind the comments here on the CFO.Com website.

This is a three minute excerpt from the Diversity - Do We Walk the Talk Panel at the 2007 PLUS International Conference.  The question revolves around attracting the bright young college students of today to the insurance industry.  The question is answered by Harold Gray, Director of the Center for Insurance Education, Howard University.