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With decades of professional consulting and brokerage experience, the Brown & Brown Financial Services team helps financial institutions manage evolving risks. Using advanced analytics, we deliver personalized insurance and risk management solutions for banks, hedge funds, Fintech companies, and other financial institutions.

Comprehensive Insurance Solutions for Financial Institutions

Brown & Brown provides competitive, industry-focused products designed to meet the specialized needs of:

  • Consumer Financial Services: Collection agencies, non-traditional lenders, and consumer finance companies
  • Banks and Non-Bank Lenders: Community banks, mortgage brokers, leasing firms, and asset-based lenders
  • Insurance Companies
  • Asset Managers: Registered investment advisors, mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity firms
  • Fintech Firms
  • Other Non-Traditional Financial Firms

Frequently Asked Questions

D&O Insurance, also known as Directors and Officers Insurance, helps protect company executives, including directors and officers, from personal financial loss if they are sued for alleged wrongful acts while managing the organization. Policies may also include coverage for the company’s own liability exposures, such as securities claims for public entities.

The core purpose of D&O Insurance is to help provide financial protection for a company’s managers and board members against the consequences of actual or alleged “wrongful acts”, including actual/alleged errors, omissions, misstatements or breaches of duty, when acting in their insured capacities.

Fiduciary Liability Insurance helps protect organizations and individual fiduciaries from claims of mismanagement related to corporate pensions, savings, profit-sharing or health and welfare plans. Coverage helps safeguard the personal assets of trustees and plan administrators.

Claims alleging negligent administrative errors, such as handling plan paperwork or records, are typically covered under Fiduciary Liability policies.

Crime policies often include Coverage Insuring Agreements, covering direct loss of money, securities or property sustained by a customer due to theft or forgery by company employees acting alone.

The average cost to defend and settle an EPL claim is around $160,000 nationally and often double that in more litigious states such as California.

Nearly 59% of all securities fraud settlements are linked to event-driven litigation, including #MeToo, COVID-19, opioid-related, and similar high-profile cases.

SPAC-related class action filings increased sixfold from 2020 to 2021, with 32 cases filed that year. U.S. SPAC mergers doubled during this period, raising a combined $95 billion, and introducing new risks from mismanagement, misrepresentation and disclosure violations.

Some D&O policies can include limited cyber attack coverage. Although markets are tightening, adding cyber endorsements remains valuable for mitigating digital risk exposures.

  • Cyber attacks
  • Data loss
  • Regulatory risk
  • Employment claims

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