Programme Agenda
Pre-Conference Workshop: 14:00-17:30, 19 October 2009
Essential D&O Insurance Issues for Risk Managers
Led by:
Dr. Thomas Heitzer, Partner, Norr Stiefenhofer Lutz
The full impact of the global economic crisis on companies and their insurers is still evolving. Analysts have predicted a wave of lawsuits triggering claims on D&O liability policies. The role of the corporate risk manager and insurance buyer has never been so important as a number of questions are sure to raise their head:
- Am I fully up-to-speed on the latest coverage and limits available?
- How have policy wordings changed and which new exclusions do I need to be aware of?
- Will my existing D&O coverage perform the way I need it to?
- What's the outlook for premiums in the future?
- How should I organise the process of disclosure of circumstances/prior knowledge
- What needs to be observed in the legal structure of co-insurance programs?
- How should I approach the interpretation of insurance clauses
- what do I have to observe in the drafting of insurance clauses?
- how can I avoid a interpretation to the disadvantage of the insured?
- What do I need to know about the new law on mandatory self retention in D&O-insurance in Germany?
- what are the answers and solutions to the new law?