Last week the C.I.A. dismissed a mid-level officer whose error led to the bombing.
"The agency has already publicly admitted that the map provided to the officers contained errors absent which the Chinese Embassy would not have been mistakenly targeted.
Professional-liability insurance, such as "directors and officers" and "errors and omissions" policies, usually covers defence costs in a formal insider-trading investigation.
Maybe this is the reason behind the arresting officer's error.
It has emerged that it is neither General Terror nor Major Confusion who is the real enemy, but a low-ranked officer, Private Error.
"Make no mistake, if our officers acted in error, this department will address the problem," Chief Halstead said in an open letter to the community posted on the city's Web site on Thursday.
His new company, which went public in May, specializes in insurance for some decidedly high-profile risks: medical malpractice, directors-and-officers liability, errors-and-omissions policies for negligence claims against lawyers, managed-care organizations and police departments.
The chief blistered a group of his top officers about the error.
An employment tribunal later found in favour of Mrs Norridge and her husband John, ruling that prison officers made an error in law by sacking Ms Norridge, the inquest was told.
He justified this course of action with the high demand for men in the combatant units: 'it has been the duty of medical officers to risk error rather in the direction of sending up possibly unfit men than in that of losing possibly fit men to their units'.
