Professional Liability

Overview

Arch Insurance’s professional liability team is positioned to offer liability insurance solutions for lawyers, architects and engineers, design build professionals, contractors and consultants, franchisors, insurance agents and brokers, real estate agents and brokers, property managers, registered investment advisors, travel agents and tour operators and a host of miscellaneous professional classes. This team is also a leading provider of network security and privacy liability coverage for companies of all sizes.

Our strengths include:

An experienced team of underwriters that puts service first.
Decision-makers who are also the underwriters.
Clients include some of the world’s preeminent companies.
Our ability to customize coverage to address our insured’s exposures.
Our in-house Claims Department is staffed by attorneys.

Underwriting and Claims professionals are readily available for insured meetings and employ a partnership approach with clients.

Products and Programs

Our Professional Liability team offers a wide range of products on both an open brokerage and programs basis.

Corporate Contact

Marilyn Marshall

Executive Vice President, Professional Liability and Cyber

+ 1 646 563 6314

[email protected]

Jamie Schibuk

Executive Vice President, Professional Liability and Cyber

+1 646 563 6367

[email protected]

Jeff Rizzo

Senior Vice President, Small Business and Professional Liability Programs

+ 1 215 606 1590

[email protected]

Proud to be recognized as a 2024 5-Star Professional Liability and D&O carrier by Insurance Business America.

This award recognizes carriers leading the way with award-winning underwriting expertise, speed in claims handling and strength of product solutions.

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Our Brand Promise

Pursuing Better Together encapsulates how we do business at Arch Insurance. It is an approach that is based on collaboration, responsiveness and a genuine commitment to continually raising the bar.

It is our promise to our brokers, colleagues and other partners to:

Listen, share insights and work together to deliver informed solutions.
Build trusting, respectful and responsive relationships.
Understand your goals and explore possibilities together.

Pursuing Better Together Transcript

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Additional Professional Liability Products (Open Brokerage)

Miscellaneous Professional Liability

Arch Insurance offers professional liability coverage through our Arch Essential Miscellaneous Professional Liability Insurance Policy^SM for a wide array of non-medical, non-financial service providers. We have been providing coverage for some of the world’s preeminent management consulting firms, technology professionals and various miscellaneous classes for over a decade. We are able to customize coverage to address all of our insureds’ exposures.

Why Arch?

Industry-leading coverage and expertise.
Flexibility in addressing the unique needs of your clients.
Excellent customer service from underwriting and claims.

Customer Profile

Real estate services firms.
Franchisors.
Retail insurance agents.
Technology firms.
Outsource providers.
Consultants.
Staffing firms.
Other non-financial, non-medical service providers.

Capacity

Limits up to $10 million offered for primary and excess.
No minimum premium or deductible.

Key Features

Policy that is easily tailored to meet each insured’s needs through industry specific endorsements.
Definition of claim includes regulatory and administrative proceedings.
Wrongful act includes personal injury.
Defense costs carve-back to the conduct exclusions.
Sub-limit available for non-party investigations coverage.
Sub-limit available for data incident response expenses.

Distribution

Select retail and wholesale producers.

Captive Agents Professional Liability

The Captive Agents division of Arch Insurance specializes in addressing the professional liability exposures of company-sponsored life and property and casualty insurance agents. In addition, we underwrite Securities Broker/Dealer and Registered Representative E&O insurance on a highly selective and strategic account-by-account basis.

Our Company Sponsored Life/Property & Casualty Insurance Agents Errors and Omissions Coverage protects captive agents in claims arising from wrongful acts in professional services, including wrongful supervision or termination. Coverage also responds to vicarious liability that the sponsoring company can face from the alleged wrongful acts of captive agents.

Customer Profile

Company sponsored agents.
Generally require 500 or more enrolled agents.
Minimum premium of $100,000.

Key Features

Primary or excess basis.
Defense costs covered outside the limits of liability.
Damage costs applied only to insured’s deductible.
Claims made and reported forms.
Duty to defend coverage.
Career agent/brokerage companies considered.
Loss reporting capabilities.

Distribution

Select retail and wholesale producers.

Capacity

Limits up to $5 million per claim.

Submission Guidelines

Arch Insurance application.
At least five years of loss experience.
Audited financial statements for the sponsoring company.