
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
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
Life Sciences Resources
Insurance solutions for Life Sciences companies
Zurich’s broad all-risk Property form addresses exposures that manufacturing companies face. Coverage highlights include, but are not limited to:
- Broad definition of real and personal property.
- Real property does not exclude insureds interest in underground pipes, flues, drains and other permanent structures. personal property of others and computer systems.
- Equipment breakdown coverage is included with no sublimit.
- Ordinance or Law applies to all covered property and time element loss, not just buildings.
- Better GreenTM – coverage to rebuild to same or higher green standard is automatically included via sublimit after a covered loss.
- Loss of Utilities includes overhead lines Business Interruption additional coverages Ingress/Egress and/or Civil Authority can include flood and earthquake for covered locations.
- Natural catastrophe limits and deductibles are scheduled on declaration page and not subject to revision at time of loss.
General Liability Industry specific endorsements providing 25 enhancements to coverage such as:
- Broad Form Named Insured and Newly Acquired Entities for any organizations.
- Automatic Additional Insureds.
- Automatic Waiver of Subrogation and Primary Non-Contributory conditions.
- Bodily Injury includes mental anguish, mental injury, shock, fright or death.
- All perils included for property damage to Premises Rented to You Broadened contractual liability.
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- Flexible options include:
- Level and variable dividend plans.
- Loss sensitive programs.
- Pay-as-you-go payroll solutions.
- One of the industry’s largest networks, providing coverage in 210 countries and territories.
- Regionally based International Underwriting teams with expertise in navigating foreign legal, licensing and tax requirements.
- A dedicated, 75-person servicing team for international programs.
- Uniform claims-handling globally, with a U.S.-based International Claims Coordinator acting as a single point of contact.
- Products-completed operations
- Errors and omissions
- Professional services liability
- Human clinical trials
- Follow form, true claims made
- Non-admitted coverage
- Limits up to $10 million
- 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

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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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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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






