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Umbrella and Excess Liability : Umbrella/Excess (for Corporate Risk)

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Product Description
  • An underwriting model designed to provide brokers with a competitive Excess Casualty alternative in the Middle Market coupled with consistent, timely service and predictable claims handling
  • Fully customizable, ISO 2004 based Excess Casualty coverages
  • Specifically designed, priced and underwritten for the Middle Market
  • Lead Umbrella or Excess layer within the first $100 million
  • Proprietary SiteSure pollution coverage and Catastrophe Management coverage
Minimums
  • $10,000 policy or $1,000 per million of limits
  • 15% standard commission
  • A- VI rating by AM Best for all underlying carriers
Limits
  • $25 million
  • $0 Retained Limit for most insureds
  • Per Location Aggregate available

 

Typical Client Profile
  • Insureds with up to $1 billion in annual revenue
  • Product Manufacturers of all types from light to heavy industrial
  • Insureds with a variety of dissimilar operations and compressed time schedules (Private Equity Groups)
  • Insureds with unique attributes that require underwriting, coverage and pricing flexibility
  • Insureds who have historically had limited options in the standard market
  • Insureds who value consistent underwriting and pricing
  • Insureds who value ethical claims handling based upon clear coverage forms
  • Insureds in low hazard industries that need financially sound capacity for competitive prices, such as:
    • Banks and Financial Institutions
    • Business and Professional Associations
    • Food and Beverage Processors
    • Hospitality including Hotels and Resorts
    • Museums and Cultural Institutions
    • Radio and Television Broadcasters
    • Real Estate Owners and Managers (REITs, habitational, commercial and industrial)
    • Retail of all types from consumer goods to heavy industrial
    • Trade and Vocational Schools
    • Wholesale distribution of all types of products
Restricted Classes or Industries
  • Aviation products
  • Asbestos products
  • Contractors: may be available through the ACE Construction Unit
  • Daycare operations (except incidental exposures)
  • Energy operations: may be available through the ACE Energy Unit
  • Healthcare facilities and providers
  • Livery operations (except incidental exposures)
  • Medical products (invasive)
  • Mobile phone products
  • Municipalities and government entities: may be available through the ACE Public Entities Unit
  • Nursing homes and assisted living facilities
  • Pharmaceutical & nutraceutical products
  • Professional employment organizations (PEOs)
  • Social service and religious organizations
  • Trucking operations (hauling goods for hire)
  • Welding rod/manganese products and operations 
Key Competitive Advantages
  • Ability to be a solution provider across a broad spectrum of the middle market:
    • Broad appetite for risk and underwriting flexibility to provide an admitted, competitive, service oriented alternative on more hazardous accounts
    • Differentiated rating model and low minimum premiums to provide exceptional pricing on lower hazard accounts
  • Experienced local middle market Umbrella underwriters with high levels of authority and flexibility to provide industry leading responsiveness and tailored coverage options
  • Industry leading policy language for both lead umbrella and excess attachments
  • Ability to schedule a wide range of underlying coverages
  • Ability to provide industry leading coverage enhancements including our proprietary SiteSure Pollution and Catastrophe Management endorsements
  • Experienced umbrella claims staff provides expert defense to insureds in a consistent ethical manner that is based upon our commitment to pre-loss contract certainty
  • Financial Strength: ACE USA consistently receives among the highest ratings for financial strength from the industry's principal rating agencies


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