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Shareholders who take aim at directors and officers, and companies conducting more business overseas are among the reasons cited for the rise in directors' and officers' claims.

At Advisen's Management Liability Insights Conference, experts seemed to agree that D&O margins have all but disappeared, companies aren't prepared for cyber risk and a lack of insurance education hurts those that can least afford it.

Security experts believe institutions are losing the battle in protecting computer networks.

Small banks can still get the coverage they need if they are willing to explain how they have lowered their risk profiles.

Reverse mergers enabled these companies to go public faster and cheaper than a traditional initial public stock offering. Many face suits alleging securities fraud.

Is tuition experiencing a bubble and threatening the pillars of higher education? Or is that talk premature, particularly with increased government aid to students.

Will it become easier for underwriters to turn a profit in the professional lines market?

When a rogue trader loses billions, risk management is called into question.

Carriers, gas drillers and explorers now trying to determine where coverage in natural gas hydrofracking cases may lie.

With banks hobbling around on one foot, insurers are taking far smaller pieces of each financial institution's risk.

This groundbreaking D&O liability insurance solution made the Southwest Airlines and AirTran Holdings merger possible.

Players still in the business face stiffer regulations and less friendly courts. But they also can enjoy a competitive insurance market with better terms and conditions.

Can you find greater perversion of insurance coverage obligations than what Lloyd's did to Allen Stanford?