E&S - Excess & Surplus Insurance
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Why choose Zurich Excess and Surplus insurance?
Zurich Excess & Surplus lines insurance, also known as E&S, is fully dedicated to providing wholesale insurance distributors with the underwriting expertise and creative solutions they need to support their retail distribution partners and customers. Our quick and carefully tailored solutions enable us to build strong and enduring relationships and add value to your teams.
Our commitment to wholesale distribution includes Broker of Record (BOR) protection for our wholesale broker partners and we have the flexibility to offer both admitted and non-admitted solutions across commercial property (including meaningful CAT capacity), excess casualty, financial lines, and construction. This is enabled by our broad underwriting appetite and ability to deploy capacity on a 100% or shared layer basis.
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Zurich E&S has the flexibility to offer both admitted and non-admitted property solutions, including meaningful CAT capacity. Our capacity offered can range from small quota share participation on difficult to place risks, to buffer capacity, to full ground up limits (determined by class of business and risk engineering information). Zurich’s expert engineering services allow us to distinguish between special hazards and traditional exposures for fire and explosion perils.
For all appointed brokers, please send all New Business submissions to ZurichEnS.Property.Subs@zurichna.com and CC your underwriter.
E&S Property
Our E&S Property offers property coverage solutions on both a primary basis and on an excess, quota share layered basis, and buffer layers, across a wide range of account types and locations. Recent coverage solutions have had average limits from $2.5M to $25M+ and premiums ranging from $100,000 to $1,000,000.
Zurich E&S Casualty, a market 100% dedicated to servicing the wholesale distribution channel, excels in creating individual risk solutions. We cater to a broad range of industry segments and most exposure sizes, demonstrating our adaptability and customer-centric approach. Our Primary General Casualty capabilities include guaranteed cost programs ranging from first dollar to $100,000 deductible options. We also offer supported, ventilated, or monoline excess placements.
Excess Casualty
Zurich E&S Excess Casualty understands the significant risks customers face and can deliver the insurance protection options to meet the risk management needs of your insured. We combine excellent coverage options with the scale and capabilities to help protect our customers’ businesses where they operate with limits up to $25M, international coverage capabilities supported by a global network spanning over 210 countries and territories, and award-winning claims services.
For all appointed brokers, please send all New Business submissions to ZurichEnS.XSCasualty.Subs@zurichna.com and CC your underwriter.
Our Excess Casualty provides excess liability, umbrella liability and auto buffer solutions for a wide range of classes for our wholesale broker partners, with an average limit of $5M - $7.5M and attachment points up to $50M on larger excess casualty towers.
Primary Casualty
Zurich E&S Primary Casualty understands complex general liability coverage needs and has the underwriting acumen and infrastructure in place to quickly design effective solutions. Our solutions capabilities span a broad risk appetite including, but not limited to, Construction, Manufacturing & Distribution, Hospitality, Real Estate and more. We use ISO-based coverage forms in conjunction with a suite of proprietary endorsements to craft occurrence and claims-made coverage options with limits up to $2/4/4 and deductible options up to $100K.
For all appointed brokers, please send all New Business submissions to ZurichEnS.Primary.Casualty.Subs@zurichna.com and CC your underwriter.
Zurich E&S’ Financial Lines team provides myriad solutions to customers looking to help mitigate their risk in areas such as management liability, employment practices liability, healthcare, fiduciary and crime. Also a part of this group is the Professional Liability & Cyber unit, which includes professional liability E&O, employed lawyers and security and privacy.
Financial Institutions
Zurich E&S provides professional liability coverages for our financial institution clients including, but not limited to, D&O, E&O, EPL, Fiduciary, and FI Bond on both a primary and excess basis. Recent accounts included smaller community-focused financial institutions like credit unions, to large publicly-traded financial intermediaries with account premiums ranging from $15,000 to $250,000.
E&O and Cyber Insurance
Our Errors and Omissions (E&O) and Cyber insurance cover a wide range of technology, manufacturing, and miscellaneous professional service providers. Our recent work has provided premiums averaging $130,000, with a range of $30,000 to $80,000 for insured revenues in middle market and corporate/national account bands.
Private/Non-Profit (PNP) Management Liability Solutions
Our Private/Non-Profit (PNP) Management Liability solutions include coverage options for private and non-profit entities including, but not limited to, D&O, E&O, EPL, Fidelity, and Crime coverage, with an average account premium of $15,000.
Public Management Liability Solutions
Zurich has recently provided Public Directors and Officers (D&O) coverage solutions to micro-cap to Fortune 500 firms across industries. Accounts with Primary D&O, Excess D&O, and Side A coverage have premiums ranging from $25,000 to $40,000 with Side A only coverage, to upwards of $750,000 to $850,000.
Zurich E&S can address the coverage needs for companies in the construction arena. Our suite of solutions provide coverage for all phases of building and construction. Whether your company is involved in non-residential construction; plumbing, heating and air conditioning; electrical work; plastering, dry wall and insulation; painting; carpentry or excavation work, our team of Construction specialists can help you manage your unique risks and exposures.
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Specialty Lines Insurance
Excess and Surplus Lines Insurance — or E&S insurance — was created for specialized and complex risks traditional insurance doesn’t cover. E&S can help wholesale insurance agents meet the challenge of serving customers who face these ever-evolving, hard-to-place risks.
Specialty lines of insurance products and services, including package solutions, can complement E&S coverage for a targeted approach to serving the wholesale distribution marketplace. The excess and surplus lines knowledge provided by wholesale distributors can be just the right helping hand needed by businesses working within unique risk exposures.
Excess and Surplus is a specialty insurance market that is informed by the focused, industry knowledge of wholesale insurance distributors who can tailor coverage to meet limits for difficult exposures that a primary insurance policy (or even a secondary/excess policy procured for a different exposure) doesn’t cover. With the flexibility and niche expertise to evolve and respond to market changes quickly, wholesale distributors can customize the right offering to help protect customers from financial pitfalls they did not foresee when procuring more traditional policies.