Revisiting D&O: a re-emerging risk?

David Robinson, regional president, Ace UK and Ireland

It is now clear one of the side effects of the global financial crisis has been an increase in the potential exposures company directors find themselves up against. In the immediate wake of the fallout, investors in financial companies were left nursing substantial losses, resulting in a spate of lawsuits from disgruntled shareholders. Take, for example, the recent actions launched against Northern Rock, RBS and Bradford and Bingley in the UK.