Technology business insurance solutions

Zurich’s approach to technology errors and omissions coverage is designed with innovative companies in mind. For mid-sized companies, our errors and omissions liability policy, called Zurich Pro Plus™, helps you address the evolving needs of your technology business by combining extensive insurance protection with the flexibility to choose desired coverages.

Zurich Pro Plus™ includes:

• Global technology errors and omissions
• Security and privacy protection coverage grants
• Privacy breach costs
• Media liability coverage grants
• Defence costs for privacy-related regulatory proceedings
• Consumer redress funds coverage following a privacy breach

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Technology companies require an insurance program flexible enough to cover the risks they face today and help manage the risks they may face tomorrow. Zurich’s dedicated technology team understands current industry trends and emerging risks, and can develop a seamless insurance solution tailored to your needs.

Zurich can help you address the extensive challenges of growing your technology business overseas. Our package policy program, called Zurich Protect-Envoy™, offers expanded coverages for property, general liability, foreign excess auto liability, foreign voluntary workers’ compensation, umbrella and more.

A damaged reputation can cost a technology company millions of dollars in lost revenue and take years of rebuilding in the event of a crisis. Incorporating stakeholder analysis and strategic reputation management into your enterprise risk management (ERM) program can help mitigate this risk.

Zurich’s strategic risk management team can work with your business to expand your ERM risk culture and business intelligence. Our ERM diagnostic service provides gap analysis of your company’s current ERM infrastructure, in order to drive the best next steps in increasing its effectiveness. It focuses on identifying strengths and areas for improvement within your framework to help you further embed ERM processes and yield greater positive outcomes. You can further close the gaps in your ERM framework with support from our specialists.

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Risks in any one link of the supply chain can affect all of its connection points and create financial and reputation damage for your technology business. Zurich offers risk management and risk transfer solutions to help you optimize your supply chain and manage the risk of a disruption.

Our supply chain risk assessment process provides a deeper understanding of your potential profit exposures. It also identifies mitigation actions to help reduce the impact to your business if your supplier, or your supplier’s supplier, fails to deliver.

Zurich’s supply chain insurance is an “all risk” contingent business interruption coverage (CBI) that is not restricted to property damage and includes total or partial reduction in supply. It allows you to transfer supply chain risks for named supplies and has few exclusions.

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With the stakes high, tech companies need clear and consistent insurance protection. Our technology property endorsement adds cloud coverage in the event of physical damage at data centres owned and operated by technology companies’ cloud service providers. It addresses the gray areas within more traditional coverage, like exclusions surrounding data location, continuing expenses for research and development functions and insured property damage requirements.

Zurich offers insurance protection for qualified cloud-reliant technology companies, should their cloud service providers’ data centres go offline because of a fire, major storm, vandalism, sprinkler leakage or other physical damage. Because technology companies deliver so many cloud-based platforms and services to their clients, such interruptions could mean major losses in the face of customer downtime.

Technology companies understand the need to protect the knowledge and information their research creates. Whether it’s a result of physical damage or hacking, our technology property damage endorsement adds coverage for damage to electronic data processing hardware, research and development property, and information property. Coverage is extended in the event that the data is housed away from premises, be it at a service provider location, storage facility, or in transit.

Technology executives are vulnerable to lawsuits claiming weak competitive actions, lowered stock values, wasted corporate assets and missed growth opportunities — not to mention bankruptcy itself. Zurich offers directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance that can be customized to any organization’s needs. Our plans provide coverage for claims of alleged or actual breach of duty, neglect, error, misstatement or omission.

Our corporate D&O coverage, Zurich D&O Select™, offers over 80 policy enhancements and key advantages for your technology business, including:

• Retired independent directors protection
• Extended reporting period
• Enhanced Side A coverage
• Sublimit for derivative investigation costs and outside directorship coverage
• Expanded definitions of claims, insured persons, loss, subsidiaries and securities claims
• Coverage for personal assets of directors and officers

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