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Business Insurance for Cultural Institutions

Insurance for Cultural Institutions

Seventy-six percent of U.S. leisure travelers participate in cultural or heritage activities. In fact, more people visit art museums, science centers, historic houses or sites, zoos, and aquariums than attend professional sporting events.1 These institutions need to understand how their unique exhibits and operations influence their property, casualty, cyber, D&O, international operations, and other risks to their organization to ensure they have the correct coverage.

“Museum Facts: Details”, American Alliance of Museums, https://www.aam-us.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-AAM-Museum-Facts-Details-FINAL.pdf, February 2021

For more information, contact:

Kate Bernay
Head of General and Developing Industries
U.S. Middle Market
Mobile: 610-308-0043
kate.bernay@zurichna.com

Why choose Zurich for Cultural Institutions Insurance?

Zurich offers an integrated approach to help customers respond to the full scope of risks. Our Underwriting, Claims and Risk Engineering specialists help you understand the unique exposures your organization has, helping allow for a holistic risk management plan that encompasses prevention through post-event recovery.

We offer:

  • Dedicated, experienced underwriters
  • A consultative approach to help identify risks and provide the right mitigation plan
  • Flexible and specialized coverages designed for cultural institutions
  • Robust Risk Engineering capabilities

Targeted cultural institutions

Coverage is available for businesses including, but not limited to:

Insurance solutions for cultural institutions

Zurich Summit Package (property and casualty coverage)

Because your organization heavily interacts with people, you will need both property and casualty coverage. Zurich’s Summit Package utilizes our market-leading property insurance form along with our ISO-driven general liability coverage.


Property Insurance

Zurich Property Portfolio Protection (PPP)

An industry-leading property form built for the middle market customer, Zurich’s PPP provides broad and flexible coverage with simplified language.

  • Real property does not exclude insureds interest in:
    • Underground pipes, flues, drains and foundations of buildings, machinery or boilers
    • Paved surface
  • Personal property includes:
    • Personal property of others in your care, custody
    • Finished Stock and Merchandise sold but not delivered at Selling Price
  • Better GreenTM – coverage to rebuild to the same or higher green standard automatically included via sublimit after a covered loss
  • Worldwide Mobile Communications Property
  • Flexible Accounts Receivables, Valuable Papers, Computer Systems
  • Combined Business Income and Extra Expense Form with no deductible for Extra Expense
  • Flexible Extended Period of Indemnity options
  • Unscheduled Locations time element coverage sublimit included in base Business Income with Extra Expense Form
  • Ordinance or Law applies to all covered property and time element loss, not just buildings

General Liability

Coverage highlights that include:

  • Broad Named Insured (includes Partnerships, Joint Ventures and LLC’s)
  • Automatic Blanket Additional Insured
  • Automatic Waiver of Right of Subrogation and primary non-contributory conditions
  • Definition of Bodily Injury includes mental anguish, mental injury, shock, fright or death

Auto

Auto coverage to protect against third-party liability and property damage for owned fleets and non-owned and hired vehicles.

Broadening endorsements include:

  • Loan / lease gap
  • Employees as insureds
  • Fellow employee
  • Hired car loss of use
  • Hired auto-worldwide coverage
  • Waiver of subrogation when required by contract

Workers' Compensation

Zurich provides options designed to get your workforce back to work quickly and safely.

  • Level and variable dividend options
  • Loss-sensitive deductible programs available
  • Flexible payroll reporting options

Umbrella

Additional liability protection with Zurich’s True Coverage A “follow form” Umbrella contract.

Cyber

Zurich’s Cyber Insurance Policy helps address the cyber risks customers face. Our product helps customers respond rapidly to the impacts of cyber attacks, with advice and help from dedicated cyber risk professionals.

International Coverage

Companies can have international exposures even if they don’t have a cross-border physical location. Zurich’s extensive international network of more than 210 countries and territories can help keep you protected wherever you conduct business. Coverage can include:

Exporter Solutions (packaged property, casualty and more)

  • Coverage for domestic companies moving into the global arena

Zurich Envoy® (packaged property, casualty and more)

  • Coverage for companies with an established foreign presence

Zurich Envoy® Global Property

  • Coverage for larger and more complex risks, our "all risk" property form was built with both domestic and global clients in mind, providing flexibility and alignment with applicable insurance regulations in all jurisdictions where we provide insurance.

Zurich Travel Assist

  • Provides concierge services (e.g., forgotten prescription, lost passport) and facilitation for medical and security needs

Zurich Resilience Solutions - Risk Engineering Services

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. ZRS has been created to address a rapidly changing risk landscape, with a new, truly holistic approach to supporting our customers’ risk management and helping build their resilience. Combining our close relationship and in-depth knowledge of our customers’ operations with our industry expertise, ZRS is a key exponent of our promise to build a brighter future together, with existing and new customers.

In addition to the services of a dedicated Risk Engineering Services Coordinator, Zurich Resilience Solutions can provide a suite built to address the most frequent and severe risks facing cultural institutions, including:

  • Water intrusion evaluation
  • Water leak detection
  • ACURE water damage and prevention program
  • Property risk assessment
  • Ergonomic assessment services
  • Slip, trip and fall assessment using Tribometry
  • Fleet Program Review & Telematics
  • Implementation Assistance
  • Access to Safety Source’s complete on-line video library.
  • Cyber risk assessment
  • Natural hazard risk assessment
  • Safety calendars
  • RiskTopics to help identify and mitigate large losses and/or trending exposures
Visit our Risk Engineering page for additional services and options.
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Zurich Claims

Having the right Claims professionals and programs in place to serve cultural institution customers can help reduce total cost of risk and drive ongoing, sustained savings.

Consistent, knowledgeable, and responsive point of contact:

  • Claims Specialists by line of business
  • Industry specialization
  • Expertise; professionals average over 15 years of experience across all lines of business
  • Claims acknowledgement within 24 hours

Team approach that includes Claims Servicing, Underwriting and other experts:

  • Medical professionals on staff
  • Dedicated recovery service
  • Fraud protection
  • Access to data

Digital Solutions:

  • Transparency throughout the claims process
  • Ability to follow the status/progress of a claim digitally
  • Loss notification transformation
  • Access to immediate loss runs

FAQs

  • What is insurance for cultural institutions?
    Commercial insurance for companies operating in the cultural institutions industry includes risk-transfer products that help protect property, business operations, autos, workers, reputation and more.
  • Why is insurance for cultural institutions important?
    Cultural institution organizations have their own unique set of exposures. Implementing a holistic risk management program that includes risk engineering and claims services along with insurance coverage will help keep you focused on what you do best ... providing a fun, engaging experience for your customers.
  • Who needs Cultural Institutions insurance?

    Cultural Institution organizations that should consider commercial insurance for protection include:

    • Aquariums
    • Arboretums
    • Art galleries
    • Botanical gardens
    • Historical societies
    • Libraries
    • Museums
    • Nature Centers
    • Planetariums and observatories
    • Zoos
  • What insurance coverages do cultural institutions need?
    Cultural institution organizations often consider Property, Casualty, Workers’ Compensation, Auto, Umbrella, Cyber, International and other traditional insurance coverages.

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