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Life Sciences Insurance

Why choose Zurich for Life Sciences Insurance?

Zurich understands the potential exposures that a wholesale business face running their operations. We offer an array of products and pre- and post-claim services to help address those exposures:

  • Dedicated, experienced underwriters
  • A consultative approach to help identifies risks and provide the right mitigation strategy
  • Broad appetite
  • Coverages designed for life sciences companies
  • Robust Risk Engineering capabilities driven by life science specialists
  • Specific life science tools to help provide quicker turnaround times on risk transfer options
A consultative approach to help identify risks and provide the right mitigation strategy

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Targeted Industries for Life Sciences

  • Biological products
  • MedTech and medical devices
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Research and development and Contract Research Organizations (CROs)

Not a market for: Dietary supplements, Cannabis and CBD

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Insurance solutions for Life Sciences companies

Property Coverages

General Liabilty

Auto

Workers' Compensation

  • Flexible options include:
  • Level and variable dividend plans.
  • Loss sensitive programs.
  • Pay-as-you-go payroll solutions.

Umbrella

Primary Products Liability

  • Products-completed operations
  • Errors and omissions
  • Professional services liability
  • Human clinical trials

Excess Product Liability

  • Follow form, true claims made
  • Non-admitted coverage
  • Limits up to $10 million

International

  • Coverage for international locations available via Zurich’s extensive international network of more than 210 countries and territories
  • Exporter solutions policy available for companies without foreign subsidiaries
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Risk Engineering

Through Zurich Resilience Solutions (ZRS), we provide specialized insights and tools to support our customers with solutions addressing traditional and evolving risks – above and beyond insurance.

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Customer Service

Claims Services

Zurich Claims specialists are strategically deployed in the U.S. and around the globe to help customers mitigate and respond to loss events, and to gain insights into becoming more resilient against future losses.

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FAQs

Insurance for life sciences companies are products and services designed to respond to the particular risk management needs of companies engaging in life sciences-related activities such as laboratory or animal research, pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, medical device manufacturers, and distributors and wholesalers of drugs or devices. 
The life science industry has its own set of unique exposures. There are coverages designed to protect companies against related risks that may impact their ability to bring products to market. Further, life sciences companies often have international exposures that need to be addressed.

Companies that may benefit from life sciences-related insurance include those that develop or sell:

  • Medical and botanical development
  • Pharmaceutical preparations
  • Biological products
  • Surgical and appliance supplies
  • Dental equipment and supplies
  • X-ray apparatuses and tubes
  • Electromedical equipment
  • Ophthalmic goods
Companies that engage in life sciences activities often consider property, general liability, auto and umbrella coverages. Those that also have operations outside the U.S. may need to consider a master program or other approach for their international operations.