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Article: D&O claims keep climbing: and costing more to settle. (Special Report).(director and officers insurance claims)(Statistical Data Included)
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- The NonProfit Times
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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Director and officers (D&O) insurance claims have doubled during the past five years at Nonprofits' Insurance Alliance of California (NIAC), a liability insurance pool for nonprofits based in Santa Cruz, Calif.
Ninety-eight percent of all NIAC's D&O claims are employee related and 80 percent of those claims are wrongful termination, according to NIAC statistics.
Increases in employee-related claims are a trend across the nonprofit sector for D&O insurance, and those claims pack the highest exposure risk for nonprofits, several insurance representatives said.
Employment liability comprises at least 85 percent of the D&O claims at Philadelphia ...