Lawyers Professional Liability Insurance
Lawyers professional liability insurance helps protect legal professionals against claims of negligence, errors or omissions that cause financial harm to another person or party. As a legal professional, you may be committed to your clients, but they may not always return the favor. Whether a small or midsized law firm, your business has potential exposures as client expectations are increasing and malpractice lawsuits are becoming more common. Your business and financial security may depend on how well-protected your firm is from a lawsuit or claim.
Lawyers professional liability coverage
Coverage is specifically designed to offer protection to legal professionals for the array of emerging exposures they face and can help protect your firm against losses resulting from negligence, errors and omissions in the performance of professional services. This errors and omissions policy can be tailored to fit your business needs.
Key policy benefits:
- Network and information security offense coverage
- Automatic acquisitions coverage
- Expanded professional services coverage
- Crisis event expense reimbursement coverage
- Claim services and pre-claim assistance
Defend for the unexpected: exclusive Travelers Risk Management resources
As a Lawyers Professional Liability policyholder, you have online access to exclusive Travelers Risk Management resources that can help you identify and manage professional liability risk. Discover more about the valuable resources available such as claim studies, advisory bulletins, podcast and webinar recordings, an engagement letter guide and more.
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As a legal professional, your engagements require great attention to detail.
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But surprises can lurk around every corner. Travelers Lawyers Professional Liability Insurance helps defend against the unexpected by equipping you with a wide range of risk management resources.
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They're created to give you the knowledge, confidence and insights you need to be proactive and prepare for risks that might otherwise catch you by surprise.
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For example, we publish risk newsletters twice a year.
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Each one includes content written by Travelers risk management professionals and outside legal experts to provide timely information on topics like choosing the right client, staying within your expertise, supervising law firm associates and more.
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We offer claim studies on various practice areas …
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and topics including domestic relations, wills and estates, and claims brought by non-clients. Each claim study identifies risk factors that can lead to a malpractice claim as well as risk management tips to help identify and manage potential risk.
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We also have a dynamic podcast series.
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These conversations of 15 minutes or less are where Travelers risk management professionals and industry experts discuss things like disengagement, fee collection, risks associated with representing family or friends and other don't miss risk management ideas.
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Or refer to our engagement letter guides.
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They can help you identify the importance of non-engagement letters, the scope of authority and much more.
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As a Traveler Lawyers Professional Liability policy holder,
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valuable risk management resources like these and others are at your fingertips.
Take advantage of them to help defend against the unexpected and be prepared.
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