Wholesale appetite: professional liability

Professional liability we place.

The line that protects firms from claims that their work, advice or deliverable caused a client loss — sized to fee revenue, bound to MSA requirements. Already appointed? Send us the account. New here? Apply for appointment below.

Professional liability (errors & omissions) covers allegations that professional services were negligent, wrong, incomplete or late. It's the defining policy for firms whose product is advice, design or deliverables — where one bad outcome can swallow a year of fees.

The triggers
we hear most.

A client is alleging the firm's advice or deliverable caused them a loss.

This is the textbook E&O claim. Standard GL won't touch a pure economic loss from professional services. Professional liability defends and pays where the allegation is that the work, advice or deliverable was wrong, late or incomplete.

A customer or contract is requiring it.

Most B2B engagements over a certain size now require evidence of professional liability — sized to the contract value. We match to markets that will bind the exact limit, retention and additional-insured wording the customer requires.

The firm sells advice, design or deliverables — not products.

If what's sold is knowledge, judgement or execution, professional liability is the line that protects for it. The risk doesn't go away because the loss feels abstract — and one bad outcome can swallow a year of fees.

The account is growing 1099s, fractional roles or subcontracting work.

Clients sue the firm that signed the contract, not the freelancer. Professional liability written for an agency or platform model includes vicarious liability for sub-contracted work — but the wording has to be right.

Inside the
policy.

Negligence, errors and omissions

Allegations that the professional services were negligent, wrong, incomplete or late — including failure to deliver to the scope and standard of care.

Defence costs

Legal defence — often outside the limit on better forms — to defend the allegation, whether or not the underlying claim has merit.

Settlement and judgement

Indemnity for amounts payable to the third party — either negotiated settlements or court awards — up to the policy limit.

Vicarious liability for subcontractors

Cover for the work of 1099s, freelancers and subcontracted firms operating under the engagement — written into the form so the agency model is properly handled.

Where buyers
get caught out.

Bodily injury and property damage

Those sit with GL. We make sure the two policies line up so a claim doesn't fall in the gap.

Intentional or fraudulent acts

Wilful misconduct is excluded everywhere. Honest mistakes and judgement calls are exactly what the policy is for.

Prior known claims and circumstances

Professional liability is claims-made. Anything known about before bind is excluded — which is why the retro date and prior-acts continuity matter so much.

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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