Overview of crime coverages

 

Today’s business environment is constantly evolving, and executive liability and crime exposures are rapidly changing
right along with it. Making sure your client’s insurance coverage is keeping pace is now even easier with the new
enhancements:
Multitude of coverages to suit every need
Below are some of the highlights of coverages
Loss from forgery or alteration of covered

instruments (including business credit card
instruments)
• Loss of money, securities and other property
on your premises or banking premises
• Loss of money, securities and other property
while in transit
• Loss from acceptance of unpaid money orders
and counterfeit money (including coins and
travelers checks)
• Loss from computer crime (including computer

Fidelity
Includes coverage for employee theft, ERISA fidelity and
employee theft of client property for direct loss of, or
direct loss from damage to money, securities and other
property.
Claim example:
An employee leveraged her role as
executive director to procure payment to fraudulent
vendors and to procure gift cards and other goods for
personal benefit.
Forgery or Alteration
Includes coverage for loss sustained through forgery or
alteration of outgoing negotiable instruments made or
drawn by you, or drawn on your account(s), or made or
drawn by one acting as your agent.
Claim example:
A signature of another person was
fraudulently signed on a check and cashed at the
insured’s bank . An affidavit
of forgery was executed claiming that the person’s
signature that appears on the check was not placed on
the check by that person.
On Premises
Includes coverage for direct loss from damage, money or
securities located inside the premises directly caused by
theft, robbery or safe burglary.
Claim example:
Rent checks from eight different
residents were stolen from inside the insured’s
premises. Loss was discovered after notices were sent
out to residents advising that payments were overdue
and one of the residents advised that his check had
already been cashed.
In Transit
Includes coverage for direct loss of money or securities
directly caused by theft, disappearance, damage or
destruction while in transit outside the insured’s
premises and in the care and custody of a messenger or
armored vehicle company.
Claim example:
A company lost money was stolen from its messenger’s
truck while in transit.
Money Orders and Counterfeit Money
Includes coverage for direct loss caused by the insured’s
good faith acceptance of worthless money orders or
counterfeit money.
Claim example:
A company received a counterfeit
cashier’s check for payment of delivered equipment.