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As privately held companies continue to escalate their activity in areas that were once considered the domain of large publicly owned companies, they have increased their exposure to potentially costly liability-related lawsuits, as well as to crime events such as workplace fraud and extortion. In an area such as directors and officers liability, the stakes can be especially high and financially devastating.

For example, 43 percent of the executives said they are concerned about a possible lawsuit over termination, discrimination or sexual harassment in the year ahead, yet only 33 percent of the companies purchase employment practices liability insurance. As a result of these findings, we continue to remain concerned that private companies may not be financially prepared to manage the consequences of a liability lawsuit or crime event.

With most insurance companies the limit of liability can be extended depending on the client's own personal requirements, but clients need to know this and here the broker plays a critical role. Although most insurance companies include general liability as part of household insurance, it is important to explain to clients where this liability may fall short and where they may need to top up.

But even when liability has been imposed, it has ultimately been paid by a combination of corporate directors and officers liability insurance. Settlements in the Enron case may indicate a change to history because individual directors at Enron had to make significant payments from their personal assets.

Most of the executives of publicly held companies are on the job for five years and these companies are more concerned with quarterly earnings. However, family-owned businesses are in there for the long run. It might even take decades for some of their ventures to pay off,

Officers and directors of publicly traded companies who steer shareholders' money into their pockets should not lie to the board of directors to get permission to do so.

Patrick Fitzgerald

Companies, not just California companies, but all publicly held companies who either do business in California or have shareholders in California will potentially be harmed by this proposition.

Many private companies are planning activities that may increase their exposure to management liability risks.

When you look into business media, it's all about large, publicly traded companies. But the heart and sole of the economy is in private, closely held companies, like ECCO.

Today the Supreme Court has unleashed a new era of legal uncertainty on America's innovators. The newly announced inducement theory of copyright liability will fuel a new generation of entertainment industry lawsuits against technology companies. Perhaps more important, the threat of legal costs may lead technology companies to modify their products to please Hollywood instead of consumers.

Fred von Lohmann

Ergonomics knowledge can be found on livet.se. It's a great thing for us. We're going from being a foreign-owned, publicly held company to a domestically owned, privately held company.

For China, we are targeting two types -- big-sized state-owned firms, like Air China, and small but (high) potential privately-owned companies.

The increase in pricing ability is going to dramatically outpace the directors and officers' liability.

Mike Smith (1943-)

Large companies have at least thought about the legal liability issue. [Small businesses] are more vulnerable in that respect and the situation is worse outside the U.S.

We're hoping that some kind of limited liability agreement can be worked out with the government that limits the liability for Good Samaritans who take in these evacuees. We don't anticipate that there would be a lot of lawsuits out of that, based on the fact that people are voluntarily helping out, but that doesn't mean that still won't occur in some rare instances.

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