Wholesale appetite: crime

Crime & social engineering we place.

Funds-transfer fraud, employee dishonesty and forgery — bound with the explicit social-engineering language that actually responds when the wire goes to the wrong account. Already appointed? Send us the account. New here? Apply for appointment below.

Crime insurance covers losses from fraud and theft against a business — funds-transfer fraud, employee dishonesty, forgery and computer fraud. It's the policy that most reliably hits the bank account when something goes wrong, and it overlaps heavily with cyber in modern claims.

The triggers
we hear most.

The finance team handles wires, vendor payments or client funds.

Funds-transfer fraud, fake-vendor invoices, spoofed executive email and redirected wires can create material first-party loss. We review the crime and cyber forms for explicit social-engineering language, terms and limits rather than assuming a base policy responds.

Employees have access to cash, inventory or financial systems.

Employee dishonesty remains a core exposure. Crime coverage can address theft, embezzlement and forgery by employees with system or asset access, subject to the policy's wording and conditions.

The account holds client funds, donations or escrow.

Property managers, RIAs, non-profits and law firms can hold client money. We map who owns the funds, who bears the loss and which crime, cyber or professional-liability terms may apply before relying on a generic limit.

There's been a near-miss with vendor impersonation or email compromise.

A near-miss is a reason to read the wording before a loss. Social-engineering protection can have its own definitions, conditions and sublimits, so compare the form to the approval process and money at risk.

Inside the
policy.

Funds transfer & social-engineering fraud

Wire fraud, fake-vendor invoices, CEO impersonation and email compromise — bound with explicit social-engineering coverage rather than a sub-limit.

Employee dishonesty

Theft, embezzlement and forgery by employees with access to assets, accounts or financial systems — including former employees within the policy period.

Forgery and alteration

Loss from forged or altered checks, drafts and other written instruments — including counterfeit currency in some forms.

Computer fraud and money orders

Loss of money, securities or property from computer-system intrusion, plus loss from accepting counterfeit money orders or currency.

Where buyers
get caught out.

Third-party theft of customer money

Crime covers losses to the insured's own business. Theft of customers' money typically sits with cyber liability or professional liability, depending on cause.

Inventory shrinkage from unknown cause

Crime requires loss tied to a specific theft event. Generic shrinkage with no traceable cause is excluded.

Loss discovered after policy expiry

Most crime forms require discovery during the policy period — though many include a discovery extension. We bind forms that protect long discovery windows where relevant.

How we place
this line.

Appetite matched in-house

Every submission gets matched internally against the carrier relationships most likely to write it — not shopped blind into a dozen inboxes.

Every hour risks the client

A slow market costs you the account. Matched submissions move straight to underwriting, and you're kept posted, even when the answer is no.

Just send the file

No 40-page form, no repeated questions. Send what you've got and we take it from there.

What we're writing
on this.

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