Professional Liability Insurance is Evolving: Learn What the Changes Mean to Contracting Firms

Frank Musica is senior risk management attorney with Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, Inc., the underwriting manager for CNA’s professional liability program for design firms.  Schinnerer, which developed the first insurance policy and risk management program for architects and engineers in 1956, added Frank to its office for professional liability research in 1991 after he had spent two decades working with design firms and their professional associations.  With his education in architecture, business and law and his practice experience, Frank develops risk management information from Schinnerer’s base of professional liability claims information and looks ahead at changes in the marketplace for professional services, in the legal treatment of design responsibility, and in the interaction between technological and information management advances and practice management techniques and responsibilities. Frank works directly with policyholders by providing educational and management assistance services, interacts with associations, government agencies and clients of the design industry, and creates serial and special interest publications on risk management techniques including the website publications on www.Schinnerer.com/AEriskmanagement.