Aon | Professional Services Practice
The risk retention series:
How much risk should professional service firms retain?
The Professional Services Practice at Aon share a series of articles exploring risk retention to help professional service firm navigate the insurance market.
For the majority of the past 15 years, there has been a buyer’s market for commercial insurance. We are now experiencing a shift. Firms across all industries are facing a firming marketplace for risk transfer, including increasing premiums, decreasing capacity, narrowing of terms and conditions and increasing self-insured retentions or deductibles (although retentions and deductibles are often used inter-changeably, they are different - in general, deductibles are considered within the applicable policy limits, whereas self-insured retentions apply before a policy limit is breached).
Professional service firms are among the industries impacted by this shift. This series will help your organization navigate the hardening insurance market.
Professional liability insurance remains the largest single insurance premium expenditure for professional service firms. Throughout this series, our experts will share their insights and guidance in navigating this volatile professional liability marketplace, alongside other lines of coverage.
The series presents articles on the retention of risk by professional service firms, examining the determination of the “right” self-insured retention, the possible use of captives and actuarial considerations in discussions of risk retention.
The articles center on current insurance market conditions, making them a real-time guide for insurance negotiations and analysis.
September 2022 - The COVID world has stimulated thinking around the nature of risk and the significance of unexpected and severe external shocks. This has coincided with the firming of the insurance market after a long soft market cycle. There has consequently been a renewed focus on the role of cap...
Service Firms
July 2022 - The Professional Services Practice at Aon shares further insights to help firms make better decisions about risk retention and which risks to cover in a captive.
February 2022 - The Professional Services Practice at Aon share insights to help firms navigate the insurance market in the tenth article in a series exploring risk retention.
February 2022 - The Professional Services Practice at Aon share insights to help firms navigate the insurance market in the ninth article in a series exploring risk retention.
Firms Make Appropriate Funding Decisions for Their Captives
January 2022 - The Professional Services Practice at Aon share insights to help firms navigate a hardening insurance market in the eighth article in a series exploring risk retention.
Firms Make Risk-related Decisions
January 2022 - The Professional Services Practice at Aon share insights to help firms navigate a hardening insurance market in the seventh article in a series exploring risk retention.
October 2021 - Aon’s Professional Services Practice share insights to help firms navigate a hardening insurance market in the sixth article in a series exploring risk retention.
October 2021 - Aon’s Professional Services Practice share insights to help firms navigate a hardening insurance market in the fifth article in a series exploring risk retention.
September 2021 - Aon’s Professional Services Practice share insights to help firms navigate a hardening insurance market in the fourth article in a series exploring risk retention.
September 2021 - Aon’s Professional Services Practice share insights to help firms navigate a hardening insurance market in the third article in a series exploring risk retention.
August 2021 - Aon’s Professional Services Practice share insights to help firms navigate a hardening insurance market in the second article in a series exploring risk retention.
August 2021 - Aon’s Professional Services Practice share insights to help firms navigate a hardening insurance market in the first article in a series exploring risk retention.
Aon’s Professional Services Practice values your feedback. If you have any comments or questions, please contact David L. Christensen or Connor Galvin.
David L. Christensen
Managing Director
New York
Connor Galvin
Vice President and Director
Radnor