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CorporateGuard Civil Liability (Financial Institutions)

Overview:  Professional services insurance on a civil liability basis for the financial institution, all its employees and others for whom it is vicariously liable. 

Who is it for?:  All financial institutions including Banks, Hedge Funds, Insurance Companies, Building Societies, Fund managers, Investment managers, Stockbrokers, Venture Capital firms and Finance Companies. Protects: The company and its subsidiaries including those created or acquired during the policy period, provided they meet pre-determined criteria / Anyone for whose acts the insured are responsible, including full, part time or temporary employees and approved persons of the company and subsidiaries / Automatic cover for domestic partners, administrators and executors.

Additional Features: Additional value-added risk management services, including pre-loss regulatory and governance advice, including DLA loss avoidance and mitigation package.

  • Triggered by official investigations, proceedings or any claim for a legally enforceable civil liability to third parties arising from professional services. In the past, this extent of cover has generally only been available to the very largest financial institutions
  • Full cover for individuals attending an official investigation without the need for any allegation of a wrongful act (cover subject to a sub-limit)
  • Civil liability is comprehensively defined Wrongful acts comprise any act, error or omission arising out
    of the provision of services by an insured or anyone for whom they are liable
 
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• Bilateral discovery period offered as standard if the policy is not replaced
• Automatic cover for vicarious liability
• Insured persons are entitled to up to GBP 200 per day to attend court as a witness in connection with a claim Automatic cover for defamation claims
• Automatic cover for civil liability arising from the destruction, damage, loss, erasure or mislaying of documents: cover has no sub-limit