Fidelity and Crime Insurance

Protect your business from the financial fallout of dishonest or criminal acts with Crime and Fidelity insurance. This coverage helps safeguard your organization against the theft of money, securities, and valuable property—whether the threat comes from employee dishonesty or external crimes such as fraud, burglary, or robbery. With Berkley, you gain access to broad, reliable protection designed to help your business stay secure, resilient, and confident in the face of unexpected loss.

Experts in crime and fidelity insurance

With deep underwriting expertise and specialized knowledge in crime and fidelity risks, Berkley delivers protection you can trust. Our teams understand the complexities of financial loss exposures—from employee dishonesty to sophisticated fraud—and provide a broad range of coverages designed to safeguard organizations across diverse industry sectors.

 

We combine insight, precision, and responsive service to help businesses strengthen their defenses, mitigate vulnerabilities, and stay resilient in the face of evolving threats.

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How crime and fidelity insurance protects your business

Businesses that handle financial transactions or maintain access to sensitive customer, client, or patient information face ongoing exposure to theft, fraud, and other dishonest acts. Crime and fidelity insurance helps safeguard your organization from these costly risks by providing targeted protection against internal and external criminal activity.

Berkley offers a wide range of specialized coverages, including:

  • Fidelity
    • Employee Theft – helps protect against loss of or damage to money, securities, or other property from theft committed by an employee, whether acting alone or in collusion.
    • ERISA Plan Official Dishonesty – provides coverage for losses caused by fraud or dishonest acts committed by plan officials or by you in connection with employee benefit plans.
    • Employee Theft of Clients’ Property – can protect your clients against loss of or money, securities, or other property due to theft committed by your employees.
  • Forgery or Alteration – can cover losses stemming from the forgery or unauthorized alteration of checks, drafts, promissory notes or similar negotiable instruments.
  • Inside and Outside the Premises (Theft of Money and Securities, Robbery or Safe Burglary of Other Property) – helps protect against loss of money, securities, and other property whether the crime occurs inside your premises or while property is off-site.
  • Computer and Funds Transfer Fraud – can provide coverage for losses caused by unauthorized or fraudulent instructions that result in the transfer, payment or debiting of your funds from a financial institution.
  • Fraudulent Impersonation –protects against losses when an employee—acting in good faith—is deceived by an imposter into transferring or delivering money or securities without proper authorization.
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Protection for businesses of every size

Berkley delivers crime and fidelity insurance solutions for organizations ranging from small domestic businesses to large multinational Fortune 500® companies. Our expertise spans a wide variety of industries, helping safeguard organizations from financial loss due to theft, fraud, and other dishonest acts.

We proudly serve:

  • Financial institutions, including:
  • Securities brokers/dealers
  • Investment advisors
  • Mortgage bankers
  • Finance companies
  • Banks
  • Insurance companies
  • Investment companies
  • Government entities
  • Healthcare companies
  • Nonprofit organizations
  • Private companies
  • Public companies

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Tailored Coverage Our Clients Trust

We certainly do appreciate the strategic partnership with the CWG team! We’ve had many different carriers over the decades for liability and CWG has by far been the best and most professional company we have worked with. I’m not one to give out compliments, but I have been really impressed with how the CWG team operates – CWG really stands head and shoulders above the competition – by far!!

Tom M, CWG Customer

Thank you again for taking the time to come out and connect with my team. The insight offered was truly valuable to both Barry and myself. I just wanted to follow up with you and let you know that we have incorporated your recommendations into our safety plan to make it the new norm on our end. We are going to start a bidding process for the nurse hotline to see which will make the most sense for us. Thank you again.

Ryan P., Berkley Renewable Energy customer

BEST and most consistent claims reps that we work with! I believe adjusters are lost in the shuffle because it’s hard to quantify their value, but you guys have some of the best adjusters in the business.

Andy, risk advisor from southern agency

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