Scope of Duties
Most policies cover an insured executive acting within the scope of his duties as a director or officer. This raises questions about those activities that are not clearly within the duties performed for the corporation, such as professional association, charitable, or public speaking activities.

For example, coverage may be in dispute where an officer, at the corporation’s urging, makes a speech to a professional organization and during the course of the speech he makes allegedly slanderous remarks. And, what about the coverage for outside directorships taken on by the executive at the request of his corporation?