March 2025 - Market stability prevails in management liability lines as insurers continue to seek market share. However, expanding technologies, increased litigation and macroeconomic factors are causing growing uncertainty and underwriting concerns.

October 2024 - Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) must embrace strong governance and secure optimal insurance coverage to effectively mitigate risk and guard against negative financial impact.

September 2024 - Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is rapidly evolving along with the associated risks. The evolving AI regulatory landscape and the uptick in litigation arising out of AI disclosures underscore the importance of managing these risks with directors’ and officers’ (D&O) insuranc...

September 2024 - Graeme Hudson and Ghonche Alavi from Crisis24 discuss Crisis24’s approach to Political Evacuation and Threat Management with Cara LaTorre from the Financial Services Group at Aon.

April 2024 - Cyber Attacks or Data Breaches are the number one risk facing organizations globally and is predicted to remain in this position in 2026, according to Aon’s Global Risk Management Survey.

March 2024 - On March 6th, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules to require public companies (including foreign private issuers) to disclose climate-related information in their registration statements and annual reports filed with the SEC.

January 2024 - Based on insights from our insurer outlook survey, we are pleased to provide a review of key management liability exposures and trends for private and nonprofit organizations.

December 2023 - Based on insights from our insurer outlook survey, the Financial Services Group at Aon provides a recap of the directors and officers (D&O) market in 2023 – including a look at what is ahead in 2024 for capacity, coverage, rates and underwriter market sentiment. We hope you find this...

November 2023 - In July 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new cyber-related disclosure rules, and the Financial Services Group at Aon discussed the increasing cybersecurity risks that companies and their directors and officers (D&Os) face. Many of these risks have mater...

August 2023 - How will Artificial Intelligence (AI) create risk in the context of employment contracts? AI is defined by the United States Congress as a “machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations or decisions influencing real or vir...

July 2023 - On July 13, 2023, a Manhattan-based federal judge issued a summary judgment order in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Ripple Labs, Inc., et al. (Ripple) – one of the most closely-watched digital asset-related lawsuits filed to date.

June 2023 - The SEC’s executive compensation clawback rule has insurance and corporate governance implications for NYSE and Nasdaq-listed companies.edition includes case summaries of decisions involving executive liability lines of coverage, including professional liability, cyber-related matters, a...

May 2023 - The Financial Services Group at Aon’s Q2 2023 EPL Advisor includes insights on employment practices risk issues, with particular focus on legal trends and law changes, the evolving marketplace, and claims.

April 2023 - In a ruling that may impact the Directors & Officers insurance (D&O) market, a court found coverage available for a company’s D&Os under policies issued to a special purpose acquisition (SPAC) company.

March 2023 - On November 22, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released its final rule in which the DOL: (i) clarifies the extent to which plan fiduciaries may consider Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors when selecting investments, and (ii) strengthens proxy voting

March 2023 - There was an explosion of SPAC and deSPAC transaction activity between 2019 and 2021. Deal sponsors raised capital through SPAC entities, used that capital to acquire attractive target companies and then took those companies public in a deSPAC transaction. This is not the disclosure-int...

March 2023 - On January 4, 2023, the Delaware Court of Chancery denied a Special Purpose Acquisition (SPAC) defendants’ dismissal motion, raising questions about whether similar allegations could be raised against other SPACs.

February 2023 - On February 6th, the Financial Services Group at Aon published the Pricing Index for Public D&O insurance for the three months ended December 31, 2022. The pricing index tracks premium changes relative to the base year of 2001.

December 2022 - Globally, the directors and officers (D&O) insurance market is experiencing clear and consistent signs of softening, with flat to decreasing premiums and significant increases in capacity, after three years of a hard market. This trend is expected to continue into 2023.

December 2022 - The Legal & Claims practice within the Financial Services Group at Aon discusses several cases of interest in executive liability and insurance in the latest edition of the Legal & Claims Quarterly Review.

October 2022 - On October 31st, the Financial Services Group at Aon published the Pricing Index for Public D&O insurance for the three months ended September 30, 2022. The pricing index tracks premium changes relative to the base year of 2001.

September 2022 - Public company directors and officers are facing increasing pressure from stakeholders – investors, shareholders, employees, customers, and regulators – to take a more proactive stance on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues.

August 2022 - On August 1st, the Financial Services Group at Aon published the Pricing Index for Public D&O insurance for the three months ended June 30, 2022. The pricing index tracks premium changes relative to the base year of 2001.

July 2022 - The Legal & Claims practice within the Financial Services Group at Aon has published the eighteenth edition of the Year in Review. This edition includes case summaries of decisions involving executive liability lines of coverage, including professional liability, cyber-related matters, a...

May 2022 - On May 2nd, the Financial Services Group at Aon published the Pricing Index for Public D&O insurance for the three months ended March 31, 2022. The pricing index tracks premium changes relative to the base year of 2001.

March 2022 - The Financial Services Group at Aon discusses excessive fee litigation trends and some best practices for Risk and Benefit Plan managers in 2022’s Fiduciary Liability: Excessive Fee Risk.

January 2022 - The Financial Services Group and the ESG Council at Aon discusses climate-related risk and D&O litigation in 2021’s Directors’ and Officer’s Liability Update - The “E” in ESG