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Zurich's Engineering insurance

Zurich's Engineering insurance products

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd offers a wide range of engineering insurance policies to help protect plant, machinery and equipment – from hired machinery insurance to deterioration of stock cover.

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Computer

Loss or damage to computer equipment and the additional expenditure incurred reinstating lost data or electronic records

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Contract works construction

Loss or damage to contract works and materials during the period of the contract, including employees’ tools, owned and hired-in contractors' plant

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Contract works machinery

Loss or damage to contract works and materials during machinery installation, testing and commissioning including employees’ tools, owned and hired-in contractors' plant

Equipment for road construction

Contractors' plant

Loss or damage to owned plant and equipment and/or hired in plant and equipment on a legal liability basis hired in under the terms of an approved hire agreement

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Deterioration of stock

Loss or damage to refrigerated stock by deterioration or putrefaction in a specified cold store as a result sudden and unforeseen damage to the refrigeration plant and/or control devices, failure of public electricity supply or the action of escaping refrigerant fumes

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Electronic equipment

Loss or damage to a wide variety of electronic equipment, such as studio broadcasting equipment, medical equipment and recording studios

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Engineering combined

A full range of engineering insurance covers, alongside inspection services, under a single policy for commercial and manufacturing trades excluding construction trades

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Hired-in machinery

Loss or damage on a legal liability basis under the terms of an approved hiring agreement to hired machinery

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Machinery loss of profits

Loss of profits, revenue or rent and increased working costs as a result of damage to machinery detailed on the Machinery sudden and unforeseen policy

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Machinery movement

Loss or damage to machinery during the course of the operations specified in the schedule

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Machinery sudden and unforeseen damage

Loss or damage to installed plant as a result of breakdown and/or accidental damage to such plant

Contact us about insurance

Online reporting

Access all your inspection activity whenever you need it, via Crimson, our online reporting tool.

Claims

Find out how to make an engineering insurance claim.

Other services from Zurich Engineering

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Engineering inspection

Engineering inspections are the MOT of plant and machinery – find out about our engineering inspection expertise

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Technical services

Find out more about our Technical Services offerings

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Engineering News and Insight

News and Insight is Zurich’s content hub, where you can find topical articles covering matters such as legislative changes and risk management