Alliance Risk vs Coverdash Crime Insurance

Both broker commercial crime; Coverdash describes a digital quote-to-purchase path, while Alliance Risk publishes exclusions and typical premium ranges.

What Is Alliance Risk?

Alliance Risk describes itself as an independent commercial insurance brokerage serving complex businesses, including technology startups. Its offering includes technology E&O placement and review of existing policies. 1,2

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What Is Coverdash Insurance?

Coverdash is an insurance brokerage and digital platform for small businesses, startups and e-commerce sellers. Buyers can compare quotes, purchase policies and manage coverage directly or through an embedded partner service. 5,6,7

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What Is Crime Insurance?

Crime insurance addresses business losses from specified theft and fraud risks, such as robbery, forgery and embezzlement. 10

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Key Differences in Crime Insurance

Two Brokerages, Different Buying Paths

Alliance Risk and Coverdash both arrange commercial crime as brokers rather than as insurers. Coverdash sells a digital quote-to-purchase path and lets you add other lines alongside crime. Alliance Risk’s reviewed sources do not describe that digital bind flow. 3 8 7

Perils and the Cyber Overlap

Both brokerages place employee theft, forgery, funds-transfer fraud and social-engineering losses. Alliance Risk also places burglary, robbery and safe burglary, and says cyber breach or hacking belongs on a cyber policy. 3 8

Coverdash lists commercial crime separately from cyber even though both can respond to funds-transfer fraud and social engineering. Alliance Risk and Coverdash’s reviewed sources do not say how those overlapping claims would be coordinated. 3 9

Audience and Published Numbers

Coverdash markets crime to any business that handles money, payroll or valuable inventory. Alliance Risk names cash-handling firms, accounting teams, volunteer-oversight nonprofits, and finance, retail, healthcare or logistics. 8 3

Neither brokerage’s reviewed sources name the issuing insurer or publish crime limits or retentions. Alliance Risk does publish typical annual premium bands from small business to large enterprise. 8 3

What to Confirm in Crime Insurance Quotes

  • Get the issuing insurer from both; neither commercial-crime page names it. 3 8

  • Ask how funds-transfer fraud and social engineering would be coordinated if you also buy cyber, which Coverdash lists separately and Alliance Risk says belongs on a cyber policy for hacking. 9 3

  • Confirm whether Alliance Risk’s burglary, robbery and safe-burglary perils, and client-property endorsement, appear on the Coverdash-placed form. 3 8

  • Compare deductibles and whether business-income loss from crime is endorsed, which Alliance Risk treats as excluded unless added. 3 8

Offering Details

Alliance Risk vs Coverdash Crime Insurance: documented features by provider

CriteriaAlliance Risk Crime InsuranceCoverdash Commercial Crime Insurance
Role in This Line

Alliance Risk arranges crime insurance placements as a brokerage; the crime page describes the coverage it places rather than an Alliance-issued policy. 3,4Company-reported. Crime product page and the general brokerage disclosure on the coverage catalogue page.

Coverdash arranges commercial crime coverage as a broker rather than an insurer, placing coverage with a carrier under its standard brokerage terms. 7,8Company-reported. General brokerage terms applied to the crime page; not specific to any one carrier or state.

Issuing Insurer

The crime insurance page does not name an issuing insurer or carrier for the coverage. 3Not publicly disclosed. Crime product page as read on 2026-09-23.

The commercial crime page does not name the insurer that issues the policy. 8Not publicly disclosed. Reviewed commercial crime page as of 2026-09-23; the page describes coverage without naming a specific carrier.

Who It’s For

Alliance Risk lists businesses that handle cash, payments or sensitive data, companies with accounting, billing or procurement teams, nonprofits with volunteer financial oversight, and organizations in finance, retail, healthcare or logistics as common crime insurance buyers. 3Company-reported. Crime product page, Who Needs Crime Insurance? section.

Coverdash markets commercial crime coverage to any business that handles money, payroll or valuable inventory. 8Company-reported. Product-page eligibility description; actual acceptance depends on underwriting.

Coverage Features

Alliance Risk's crime insurance page covers employee theft and embezzlement, forgery or alteration of checks or documents, fraudulent electronic funds transfer, social engineering fraud and impersonation, and burglary, robbery and safe burglary, with theft of client property available by endorsement. 3Company-reported. Crime product page, What Does Crime Insurance Cover? section; actual policy structure depends on the carrier and the policy as issued.

Alliance Risk says its crime coverage excludes business income loss from crime unless endorsed, cyber breach or hacking (which it says falls under a cyber policy instead), losses not discovered during the policy period, and dishonest acts by company owners or partners. 3Company-reported. Crime product page, What Doesn't Crime Insurance Cover? section.

Coverdash describes commercial crime coverage as protecting against employee theft of money, property or assets, forged checks and counterfeit currency, fraudulent funds-transfer instructions, and losses when an employee is tricked by social engineering into sending funds to a bad actor. 8Company-reported. Product-page coverage cards; the issued policy and declarations control actual wording, limits and exclusions.

Coverdash's coverage hub lists commercial crime separately from cyber insurance, even though both can respond to funds-transfer fraud and social-engineering losses; the two pages do not state how overlapping claims are coordinated between policies. 8Not found in reviewed sources. Comparison of the cyber and crime-coverage product pages; overlap-resolution language was not found on either page.

Limits and Retentions

Alliance Risk's crime page gives typical annual premium ranges ($500-$2,000 for small businesses up to $10,000-$50,000+ for large enterprises) but does not publish specific coverage limits, sublimits or retentions. 3Not publicly disclosed. Crime product page as read on 2026-09-23.

The commercial crime page does not publish specific limit, retention or deductible amounts. 8Not publicly disclosed. Reviewed commercial crime page as of 2026-09-23; figures are quote-specific and not shown on the public product page.

How to Apply

Not described in the reviewed sources.

Coverdash describes a fully digital quote-to-purchase process for commercial crime coverage, with the option to add other coverages alongside it. 8Company-reported. Product-page company information and cross-sell section.

Full Comparison

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Sources

Alliance Risk

  1. About Us. Alliance Risk; Our Story. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  2. Tech E&O Insurance. Alliance Risk; Opening placement description; Get Your Tech E&O Risk Review; What We Need for Your Quote; Policy Review. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  3. Crime Insurance. Alliance Risk; What Is Crime Insurance?; Who Needs Crime Insurance?; What Does Crime Insurance Cover?; What Doesn't Crime Insurance Cover?; How Much Does Crime Insurance Cost? Accessed 2026-09-23.
  4. Alliance Products. Alliance Risk; Footer brokerage disclosure: "Alliance Risk is an insurance brokerage focused on providing clients with commercial insurance across a wide array of industries.". Accessed 2026-09-23.

Coverdash

  1. Frequently Asked Questions. Coverdash; Getting a quote & buying coverage; Claims & certificates; Billing & managing your policy; About Coverdash. Accessed 2026-09-15.
  2. About Us. Coverdash; How Coverdash Works: direct and embedded channels; Our Investors. Accessed 2026-09-15.
  3. Terms And Conditions. Coverdash; "Coverdash does not provide any underwriting services"; broker/agent of record designation. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  4. Commercial Crime Insurance. Coverdash; Product introduction; Types of Coverage cards for Employee theft, Forgery and fraud, Funds transfer fraud, Social engineering; Who It's For. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  5. Coverage Hub. Coverdash; Cyber & Crime category listing Cyber Insurance, Crime Coverage and Kidnap & Ransom. Accessed 2026-09-23.

Crime Insurance Guide

  1. Commercial Insurance Guide. California Department of Insurance; Crime. Accessed 2026-09-16.

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