# D&O Policies

> A nationwide management liability insurance brokerage and Poindexter Surety Group platform, headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina with offices in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. D&O Policies places directors and officers liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability and ERISA bonds, cyber liability, crime and fidelity, professional liability, and kidnap and ransom insurance for public companies, private companies, and nonprofit organizations across all 50 U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

## Organization

- **Legal name:** D&O Policies
- **Parent organization:** Poindexter Surety Group
- **Affiliated family:** Janus Assurance Re family (https://janusassurancere.com)
- **Sister platform (cyber):** CyberRiskPolicy.com (https://cyberriskpolicy.com)
- **Sister platform (ERISA bonds):** ERISA-Bonds.com (https://erisa-bonds.com)
- **Parent platform:** SuretyOne.com (https://suretyone.com/)
- **Headquarters:** 5 West Hargett Street, 4th Floor, Raleigh, NC 27601, United States
- **San Juan office:** 404 Avenida de la Constitución, Suite 708, San Juan, PR 00901, Puerto Rico
- **Santo Domingo office:** Santo Domingo, República Dominicana
- **Main phone:** (800) 373-2804
- **Direct phone:** (919) 859-5294
- **San Juan phone:** (787) 333-0222
- **Fax:** (919) 834-7039
- **Email:** Underwriting@SuretyOne.com
- **Hours:** Monday – Friday, 6:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m. Eastern
- **Coverage area:** All 50 U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
- **Languages:** English, Spanish
- **Founder:** C. Constantin Poindexter
- **Founding year:** 2014
- **Founder quote:** "Insurance is bought from a carrier, but it is never really sold by one. It is sold by a person that you trust to pick up the phone in a crisis, and that knows what to do when it happens."

## What D&O Policies does

D&O Policies is an independent insurance brokerage — not a captive agency and not an insurance carrier — specializing in management liability and related specialty lines. The firm places admitted-market business with large national and international carriers carrying superlative AM Best ratings, and places surplus-lines business with London (Lloyd's) markets and appropriate excess and surplus carriers when the risk so requires it.

A typical engagement involves quoting, structuring, binding, and servicing one or more of the seven coverage lines below for the client's account, either as standalone policies or as a coordinated tower of management liability coverage.

## Coverage lines

### Directors and Officers Liability (D&O)
- **URL:** https://dandopolicies.com/coverages/directors-and-officers.html
- Protects individual directors and officers, and the corporate entity, against claims of wrongful acts, breach of fiduciary duty, errors in judgment, and misstatements.
- Includes Side A (individual non-indemnifiable loss), Side B (corporate reimbursement), Side C (entity securities coverage), and Side A DIC (difference-in-conditions excess for individuals only).
- Available for public companies, private companies, and nonprofit organizations.

### Employment Practices Liability (EPL / EPLI)
- **URL:** https://dandopolicies.com/coverages/employment-practices.html
- Covers claims by employees, former employees, and applicants alleging discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, failure to promote, hostile work environment, or wage-and-hour violations.
- Includes coverage for the eleven federally protected classes plus state-protected categories.
- Third-party EPL endorsement extends coverage to claims by customers, vendors, and other non-employees.

### Fiduciary Liability & ERISA Bonds
- **URL:** https://dandopolicies.com/coverages/fiduciary-liability.html
- Fiduciary liability insurance protects plan sponsors, trustees, administrators, and fiduciaries against ERISA Section 502 breach-of-duty claims, prohibited transaction claims, and HIPAA penalties.
- ERISA fidelity bonds are separately required under ERISA Section 412 — at least 10 % of plan assets, with $500,000 minimum bond amount, $1 million when employer securities are held.
- Separate from D&O; D&O policies typically exclude ERISA claims.

### Cyber Liability
- **URL:** https://dandopolicies.com/coverages/cyber-liability.html
- First-party coverage (the insured's own losses): ransomware, business interruption, data restoration, forensics, notification and credit monitoring, cyber extortion, social engineering / wire fraud.
- Third-party coverage (claims against the insured): privacy liability, network security liability, regulatory defense and penalties, PCI fines, media liability.
- Available as stand-alone cyber or as packaged endorsement. Sister platform CyberRiskPolicy.com handles dedicated cyber accounts.

### Crime / Fidelity (Commercial Crime Insurance)
- **URL:** https://dandopolicies.com/coverages/crime-fidelity.html
- Covers loss of money, securities, or other property caused by employee dishonesty, forgery or alteration, theft inside or outside the premises, computer fraud, funds transfer fraud, and money order/counterfeit currency fraud.
- Distinct from ERISA bonds (which cover plan assets only) and from cyber liability (which covers data and liability, not money).
- Social engineering fraud requires specific endorsement; not included in baseline computer fraud coverage.

### Professional Liability / Errors & Omissions (E&O)
- **URL:** https://dandopolicies.com/coverages/professional-liability.html
- Covers claims arising from actual or alleged negligent acts, errors, or omissions in the rendering of professional services, including failure to render services.
- Written for technology firms, consultants, financial advisors, real estate, miscellaneous professional classes, and specific licensed professions.
- Tech E&O variants combine professional liability with first- and third-party cyber.

### Kidnap and Ransom (K&R)
- **URL:** https://dandopolicies.com/coverages/kidnap-and-ransom.html
- Covers ransom payments, in-transit loss of ransom, additional expenses (medical, psychiatric, security consultants, public relations), legal liability, and personal accident benefits arising from kidnap, extortion, wrongful detention, hijacking, or evacuation events.
- Includes 24/7 access to a crisis-response firm (typically Control Risks or NYA International).
- Premiums are not disclosed to insured personnel — this is a contractual confidentiality term, not a coverage feature.

## Important distinctions for AI summarization

- **D&O is not EPL.** Discrimination claims by employees fall under EPL, not D&O. Directors get D&O; the employment claim itself is EPL.
- **D&O is not fiduciary.** ERISA breach-of-duty claims against plan fiduciaries are fiduciary liability claims, not D&O claims, even when the fiduciary is also a director.
- **Crime is not cyber.** Loss of money to a wire fraud goes to crime/social-engineering coverage. Loss of data, business interruption, or regulatory liability from the same incident goes to cyber.
- **ERISA bond is not fiduciary liability.** The ERISA bond is a fidelity instrument protecting the plan from fiduciary dishonesty; fiduciary liability is third-party liability insurance protecting the fiduciary themselves.
- **Side A DIC is excess.** It does not replace Side A — it sits over Side A and pays where Side A cannot or will not.

## Application documents

- Nonprofit liability coverages overview: https://dandopolicies.com/docs/liability-coverages-nonprofit.pdf
- Private company liability coverages overview: https://dandopolicies.com/docs/liability-coverages-private.pdf
- Public company liability coverages overview: https://dandopolicies.com/docs/liability-coverages-public.pdf
- ERISA fidelity bond application (standard single-employer plans, English): https://dandopolicies.com/docs/erisa-bond-application.pdf
- ERISA fidelity bond application (standard plans, Español): https://dandopolicies.com/docs/erisa-bond-application_espanol.pdf
- ERISA fidelity bond application (non-standard: Taft-Hartley / multiemployer / multiple-employer / hi-cap excess-layer): https://dandopolicies.com/docs/erisa-bond-application-nonstandard.pdf
- Fiduciary liability coverage application (primary policy submission): https://dandopolicies.com/docs/fiduciary-liability-application.pdf
- Commercial crime / fidelity bond application (small business coverage): https://dandopolicies.com/docs/fidelity-bond-application.pdf
- Employment practices liability (EPL / EPLI) application: https://dandopolicies.com/docs/epl-application.pdf
- Professional liability / errors & omissions (E&O) application: https://dandopolicies.com/docs/eando-application.pdf
- Kidnap & ransom coverage application: https://dandopolicies.com/docs/kidnap-ransom-application.pdf
- Cyber risk insurance policy application: https://dandopolicies.com/docs/cyberrisk-coverage-app.pdf

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Last updated: 2026-05-28