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Excess Edge

Excess EdgeSM, an insurance solution developed to improve the placement of follow form excess management and professional liability coverage.  Excess Edge offers market-leading coverage on a form that reduces the administrative burden facing brokers and their clients when placing excess insurance for directors and officers liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, errors and omissions liability, and other executive liability exposures.
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  • Streamlines policyholder obligations and eliminates unnecessary terms and conditions
  • Provides a better match to the followed coverage, allowing customers comfort that their carefully crafted primary coverage will be more accurately reflected in the excess layer
  • Customer access to the Excess Edge layer is provided through state-of-the-art recognition of erosion language built directly into the insuring clause
  • The new “Changes” provision waives the endorsement requirement  for certain post-issuance changes
 
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Excess Edge Highlight Sheet

Excess Edge Press Release

The D&O Insurer and the Directors’ Counsel
An article written by Lawrence Fine, Senior Vice President & Chief Technical Officer for Complex D&O/Fiduciary Claims, and Timothy W. Burns, a Partner at Perkins Coie LLP

Straight Talk About the Escalating Risks Facing Directors and Officers in 2010
An article written by Lawrence Fine, Senior Vice President & Chief Technical Officer, Financial Lines Claims, Chartis and Mark Curley, Senior Vice President for D&O Claims, Financial Lines Claims, Chartis

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We have assembled a seasoned team of claims professionals who are experienced in managing some of the highest-profile D&O, E&O, employment practices, fiduciary, crime and technology cases in the industry, for entities of all sizes and across most industries—from Fortune 500® companies to not-for-profit organizations; multinational corporations to privately-held enterprises.

Our centralized in-house operation, positioned adjacent to our underwriting colleagues, allows us to facilitate prompt case resolution and the best possible claim outcomes. We offer access to some of the nation’s leading law firms specializing in the defense of securities, employment practices, fiduciary and technology claims.  In today’s tough economic and legal climate, policyholders can expect Chartis Claims to provide valuable strategic assistance in litigating with even the most formidable plaintiff’s attorneys.

To report or check the status of a claim please contact us:
Tel: 888-602-5246
Fax: 866-227-1750
Mail: Chartis
Financial Lines Claims
P.O. Box 25947
Shawnee Mission, KS  66225

Download a claim form for submission.

To request loss runs, contact Broker Services at 877-867-3783