Alliance Risk vs Travelers Business Owner’s Policy

Alliance Risk brokers a general storefront BOP; Travelers packages a Technology Services BOP that includes cyber and E&O.

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 Travelers Insurance?

Travelers is a U.S. property-casualty insurance group that markets business coverage, including a technology practice, through independent agents and brokers. Buyers can investigate CyberRisk Tech, a small-business technology-services policy, and other commercial lines, then confirm the issuing company and California availability on a quote. 5,6,7

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What Is a Business Owner’s Policy?

A business owner’s policy packages property, general liability and business interruption coverage for eligible businesses. 9

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Key Differences in Business Owner’s Policy

Storefront Foot Traffic Versus Technology Services

Alliance Risk targets retail, offices, restaurants, artisan contractors, and healthcare and wellness providers with customer foot traffic. Travelers markets a Technology Services BOP to small businesses providing computer installation and repair, data processing, internet service, IT consulting and schools, software development, web development and design, and web hosting. 3 8

Cyber and E&O Inside Travelers’ Bundle

Travelers says the Technology Services BOP includes property, general liability, business income and extra expense, and cyber liability and errors & omissions in one policy. Alliance Risk includes GL, property and interruption, with cyber as an optional endorsement, and says professional liability needs a separate policy. 8 3

How You Buy

Alliance Risk uses an online quote form or a scheduled consultation. Travelers directs buyers to an independent insurance agent; the reviewed page does not offer a direct self-service online quote. Optional Travelers add-ons include Xtend (15 GL enhancements including blanket waiver of subrogation), EPL+ and World Business Essentials for periodic overseas travel. 3 8

What to Confirm in Business Owner’s Policy Quotes

  • Confirm whether you are a technology-services operation of the kind Travelers lists. 8
  • Ask whether cyber and E&O are inside the BOP (Travelers’ description) or separate (Alliance Risk’s professional-liability exclusion). 8 3
  • Get the Travelers issuing entity; the page says it appears on the policy. 8
  • Ask about Xtend, EPL+ and overseas travel if those exposures apply. 8

Offering Details

Alliance Risk vs Travelers Business Owner’s Policy: documented features by provider

CriteriaAlliance Risk Business Owners Policy (BOP)Technology Services Business Owner's Policy
Role in This Line

Alliance Risk arranges BOP placements as a brokerage; the BOP page describes the bundled package it places rather than an Alliance-issued policy, and does not name an issuing insurer. 3,4Company-reported. BOP product page and the general brokerage disclosure on the coverage catalogue page.

Travelers packages this line as a Technology Services Business Owner's Policy (BOP) that bundles property insurance with liability insurance into a single policy for small technology-services businesses. 8Company-reported. Small Business Technology Services Insurance page as read on 2026-09-23.

Issuing Insurer

Not described in the reviewed sources.

The Small Business Technology Services Insurance page does not name the specific Travelers entity that issues this BOP; the issuing company is disclosed on the policy itself. 8Not found in reviewed sources. Page checked on 2026-09-23; no underwriting-entity footer was present on this page.

Who It’s For

Alliance Risk targets its BOP at small and mid-sized businesses that operate from a physical location with customer foot traffic, listing retail and boutiques, offices and consultants, restaurants and food service, artisan contractors, and healthcare and wellness providers as common buyers. 3Company-reported. BOP product page, Who Needs Business Owners Policy? section.

Travelers markets this BOP to small businesses providing technology services, including computer installation and repair, data processing services, internet service providers, IT consultants and schools, software development, web development and design, and web hosting. 8Company-reported. "Who is small business technology services insurance right for?" section.

Coverage Features

Alliance Risk's BOP bundles general liability, commercial property and business interruption coverage, with optional endorsements for cyber liability, equipment breakdown, hired and non-owned auto liability, and employment practices liability (EPLI). 3Company-reported. BOP product page; actual endorsement availability depends on the carrier and underwriting.

Alliance Risk's BOP page says the bundled package excludes professional liability claims, workers' compensation, commercial auto coverage, and flood or earthquake damage, each of which needs a separate policy. 3Company-reported. BOP product page, What Doesn't Business Owners Policy Cover? section.

Travelers says the Technology Services BOP includes property coverage, general liability, business income and extra expense coverage, and cyber liability and errors & omissions coverage, bundled into one policy. 8Company-reported. BOP description on the Small Business Technology Services Insurance page.

Travelers offers optional add-ons for this BOP: the Xtend Endorsement, which it describes as 15 general liability coverage enhancements including a blanket waiver of subrogation; Employment Practices Liability+ (EPL+) for claims like discrimination or wrongful termination; and World Business Essentials, which extends some property and liability coverage for periodic overseas travel. 8Company-reported. "Customize your business policy with these add-ons" section.

Limits and Retentions

Alliance Risk's BOP page gives typical annual premium ranges ($500-$1,200 for small businesses, $1,200-$2,500 for medium businesses, $100-$500 per added endorsement) but does not publish standard liability or property limits, deductibles or sublimits. 3Not publicly disclosed. BOP product page as read on 2026-09-23.

The page does not publish specific coverage limits, deductibles or sublimits for the Technology Services BOP or its add-ons; those figures appear on the quote and declarations. 8Not found in reviewed sources. Page checked on 2026-09-23.

How to Apply

You request a BOP quote through Alliance Risk's online quote form or by scheduling a consultation with a risk advisor; the page does not describe specific underwriting information required for a BOP submission. 3Company-reported. BOP product page quote call to action.

Travelers directs buyers to an independent insurance agent to tailor and purchase this BOP; the page does not offer a direct self-service online quote or bind path. 8Company-reported. "Find an insurance agent" call-to-action on the technology-services page.

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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. Business Owners Policy (BOP). Alliance Risk; What Is a Business Owners Policy?; Who Needs Business Owners Policy?; What Does Business Owners Policy Cover?; What Doesn't Business Owners Policy Cover?; How Much Does Business Owners Policy (BOP) 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.

Travelers

  1. Technology Insurance. Travelers; Technology insurance products we offer: CyberRisk Tech, Global Companion Plus+, general liability, commercial property, workers compensation, commercial auto, umbrella; startup-to-established-leader audience. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  2. Travelers Producer Compensation Disclosure (United States). Travelers; Independent producers; seven compensation types; Simply Business, Inc. and InsuraMatch, LLC ownership; The Travelers Indemnity Company footer; Northfield Excess & Surplus Lines product list. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  3. Contact Us. Travelers; Business insurance sold through independent agents; business claims 1.800.238.6225; MyTravelers for business features. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  4. Small Business Technology Services Insurance. Travelers; Technology services business owner's policy (BOP) section; Who is small business technology services insurance right for?; Customize your business policy with these add-ons; Find an insurance agent CTA. Accessed 2026-09-23.

Business Owner’s Policy Guide

  1. Business Interruption and Business Owner Policy. National Association of Insurance Commissioners; Background; General liability, Commercial property and Business interruption bullets. Accessed 2026-09-16.

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