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Our team of experienced underwriters supports a specialized suite of Equipment Breakdown (EB) and service line coverage that helps policyholders prepare for the unexpected. Whether for large commercial properties or homeowners’ underground utility lines, our tailored EB products offer seamless protection across business and personal lines.

Seamless equipment breakdown protection 

Commercial equipment breakdown

From standard businessowner’s policies to large commercial risk, we offer both reinsurance and unique, individualized EB coverages for damage from electrical, mechanical, and pressure systems breakdown, including:

  • Short circuits, electrical arcing, utility power surges, mechanical breakdown, motor burnout, and pressure systems breakdown of covered equipment
  • Expenses related to replacement costs for damaged equipment, or to spoilage that results from a breakdown of covered equipment
  • Expenses incurred to limit loss or speed up restoration of operations, loss of business income, and extra expenses, if included in the base policy

Home equipment breakdown

Comprehensive EB coverage for electrical, mechanical, and pressure system equipment that homeowners rely on, including:

  • Repair or replacement costs for covered equipment off premises
  • Expenses related to spoilage, expediting expense, loss of use, and pollutant cleanup and removal that result from a breakdown of covered equipment

Service line failure

Comprehensive coverage for physical damage to underground home utility lines including:

  • Expenses related to outdoor property, excavation costs, expediting expense, and loss of use that result from a covered service line failure


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