Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Medical Devices And Clinical Trials

Life Sciences

Safeguarding innovation in life sciences with customised liability insurance, designed to protect your business at every stage of development.

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Life Sciences

Comprehensive Coverage for Life Sciences

Supporting Innovation with Specialised Protection

Our life sciences offering delivers global coverage for a wide range of risks, leveraging Lloyd’s licenses and an extensive international network. We understand the unique needs of the life sciences sector, providing tailored package solutions to support every stage of your business journey.

As part of our International Casualty division, this coverage complements our General Liability and Environmental Liability lines, with a focus on fostering lasting partnerships and delivering exceptional support. With in-house underwriting expertise and dedicated claims resources, we offer industry-specific insights to help clients navigate risk effectively and confidently.

Policy Highlights & Essential Details

Target Markets

  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Nutraceuticals
  • Medical devices
  • Cosmetics
  • Research and development companies
  • Contract research organisations
  • Laboratory exposures
  • Biotechnology companies

Capacity

  • CAD 5,000,000 Limit
  • CAD 50,000,000 Open Market Placement Available

Exclusions

  • Market standard exclusions
  • Specified drug exclusion list
  • Specified nutraceutical exclusion list
  • Specified disease exclusion list

Coverage

  • Public liability
  • Products liability
  • Errors and omissions liability
  • No fault compensation for human clinical trials
  • Legal liability for human clinical trials

Sub Limited Coverage

  • Medical malpractice extension
  • Product recall
  • Pure financial loss
  • Cyber

Primary & Excess of Loss Risk Appetite

  • Clinical trials
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical products
  • Medical devices
  • Research & development
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Cosmetics
  • Nutraceuticals
  • Health supplements
  • Lab exposures
  • Biotechnology companies
  • Medical marijuana
  • Implantable devices
  • Sterilisation companies
  • Blood fractionation companies and blood banks
  • Electronic cigarettes/vapes, tobacco products/any component parts
  • Non-products liability healthcare/hospital exposures outside of clinical trials
  • Care homes
  • Heavy invasive permanent implants
  • Aesthetic implants

Global Coverage for Clinical Trial Risks

Expert Protection for Every Phase of Your Clinical Trials

Our life sciences offering delivers global coverage for a wide range of risks, leveraging Lloyd’s licenses and an extensive international network. We understand the unique needs of the life sciences sector, providing tailored package solutions to support every stage of your business journey.

As part of our International Casualty division, this coverage complements our General Liability and Environmental Liability lines, with a focus on fostering lasting partnerships and delivering exceptional support. With in-house underwriting expertise and dedicated claims resources, we offer industry-specific insights to help clients navigate risk effectively and confidently.

Policy Highlights & Essential Details

Target Markets

  • Sponsors of Clinical Trials
  • Contract Research Organisations (CROs)
  • University clinical trial programmes
  • Annual master clinical trial

Capacity

  • CAD 5,000,000 Limit
  • CAD 50,000,000 Open Market Placement Available

Exclusions

  • Market standard exclusions
  • Our wordings adhere to the regulations

Coverage

  • No fault compensation coverage
  • Legal liability coverage
  • Fully compliant local language documentation provided as and where required
  • Ability to offer product enhancements that coincide with clinical trials exposures including Medical Malpractice, Errors & Omissions and Medical Expenses
  • Ability to package with the life sciences policy

Primary & Excess of Loss Risk Appetite

  • Sponsor liability for all phases of research (first in man/phase I, II, III and IV)
  • All types of clinical trials not listed in the ‘Will consider’ section
  • Contract research organisations clinical trial exposures
  • Local site exposures
  • Investigator led studies
  • University clinical trial programmes
  • Cell and gene therapy
  • Trials involving pregnancy
  • Trials involving children under the age of 5
  • Therapies targeting the brain/blood – brain-barrier/cerebrospinal fluid

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