
Insurance for Wholesalers
Why choose insurance from Zurich for a wholesale business?
Zurich understands the potential exposures that a wholesale business face running their operations. We offer an array of products and pre- and post-claim services to help address those exposures:
- Core commercial insurance coverages such as Property, General Liability, Inland Marine, Ocean Cargo, Auto, Workers’ Compensation, Management Liability, Cyber and International Insurance
- Risk Engineering insights and service that can help reduce the frequency and severity of risk
- Exceptional claims handling and customer service
Targeted classes for Wholesale Businesses
- Commercial & Industrial Machinery
- Industrial Supplies
- Hardware & Tools
- Metals Service Centers
- Motor Vehicle Component Parts
- Electronic Parts
- Office Equipment
- Paper & Packaging Supplies
- Furniture & Home Furnishing
- Clothing & Footwear
Insurance solutions for Wholesale Businesses
Zurich’s broad all-risk Property form addresses exposures wholesale businesses face, including:
- Selling price on merchandise and stock
- Brands and labels included
- Flexible Transit and Unnamed locations limits available
- Unintentional Errors or Omissions
- Better Green™ - coverage to rebuild to same or higher green standard automatically included via sublimit after a covered loss
- Flexible Accounts Receivables, Valuable Papers, Electronic Data Processing Equipment, Media, and Fine Arts limits
- Ordinance or law applies to all covered property and time element loss, not just buildings
- Equipment breakdown coverage included with no sub-limit
- Real property definition does not exclude insured’s interest in underground pipes, flues, drains and foundations of buildings, machinery or boilers
- Broad Named Insured (includes Partnerships, Joint Ventures, and Limited Liability Companies)
- Blanket Additional Insured vendors coverage when required by contract
- Automatic Additional Insureds
- Leased and temp workers included by definition
- Bodily Injury includes mental anguish, mental injury, shock, fright or death
- Level and variable dividend plans.
- Loss sensitive programs.
- Pay-as-you-go payroll solutions.
Broadening coverage endorsement that adds 23 extensions in one form that includes:
- Loan / lease gap
- Employees as insureds
- Fellow employee
- Hired car loss of use
- Hired auto-worldwide coverage
- Waiver of subrogation when required by contract
- Regionally-based multinational underwriting teams with expertise in navigating foreign legal, licensing and tax requirements
- Exporter solutions
- Coverage for domestic companies moving into the global arena
- Zurich Envoy®
- Coverage for companies with an established foreign presence
- Zurich Travel Assist
- Provides concierge services (e.g., forgotten prescription, lost passport) and facilitation for medical and security needs

Risk Engineering
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.
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Claims Services
Zurich Claims specialists are strategically deployed in the U.S. and around the globe to help customers mitigate and respond to loss events, and to gain insights into becoming more resilient against future losses.
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Wholesalers and distributors who deal with the below should consider commercial insurance protection:
- Commercial & Industrial Machinery
- Industrial Supplies
- Hardware & Tools
- Metals Service Centers
- Motor Vehicle Component Parts
- Electronic Parts · Office Equipment
- Paper & Packaging Supplies
- Furniture & Home Furnishing
- Clothing & Footwear