Directors and Officers Liability Insurance
Directors and Officers Liability Insurance, commonly referred to as “D&O insurance,” covers damages and defense costs if a company’s officers and/or directors are sued for wrongful acts that may have occurred while they were performing their corporate duties. It is payable to the corporation or the directors or officers themselves.
Wrongful acts may include errors, omissions, misstatements or misleading statements, breach of duty to the corporation or neglect. Plaintiffs may include just about anyone: shareholders, vendors, creditors, regulators, competitors, and employees.
D&O insurance used to only be available to larger, established corporations. In recent years, however, even small, private companies have been able to purchase D&O insurance. CarpenterMoore, a Nasdaq company, provides D&O liability insurance among its products.
Tags: Corporate Governance, Insurance, liability