Beazley vs Cowbell Management Liability Insurance

Beazley markets ExecuGuard as a single management-liability package policy combining private-company directors and officers (D&O), employment practices and fiduciary liability, which buyers can customize with separate or shared limits across the three coverages. ³Company-reported. US ExecuGuard package as described on the combined product page. Beazley does not market a separate US "management liability" product distinct from ExecuGuard in the reviewed sources; this record describes the same underlying product as the directors-officers, employment-practices and fiduciary offering records, at the bundle level.

Cowbell is the distribution platform, not the insurer: it gives Zurich-appointed E&S wholesalers API access to Zurich's Select Plus management liability product, a modular suite Zurich already sells to larger companies, sized down for small and midsize private businesses. Zurich's own page confirms Select Plus is 'Zurich Insurance, in collaboration with Cowbell,' offered as a 'proprietary form,' with identical FAQ wording to Cowbell's page. ^8,7Company-reported. Cowbell intro paragraph and FAQ; Zurich intro and 'Delivering speed from quoting to policy issuance' section.

The ExecuGuard page does not name the specific Beazley insurance entity that issues the policy. Both admitted and non-admitted versions are advertised, so the issuing carrier and its admitted status depend on the policy placed. ³Not found in reviewed sources. ExecuGuard page as read on 2026-09-23; the issued policy's declarations control the actual insurer.

Both Cowbell and Zurich say the product is offered on Zurich admitted paper and backed by 'the reputable Zurich Claims service.' Neither page names the specific underwriting Zurich subsidiary or policy-issuing entity; Zurich's site footer copyright reads 'Zurich American Insurance Company,' but that is a general site-wide notice, not a stated policy-issuer confirmation for Select Plus specifically. ^8,7Company-reported. Management liability page intro; Zurich page intro and footer.

ExecuGuard is marketed to private organizations rather than public companies. Beazley's separate D&O, EPL and fiduciary product pages describe more specific eligibility details for each individual coverage that are not restated on the combined ExecuGuard page itself. ³Company-reported. ExecuGuard page as a package; component-level eligibility (e.g. EPL's employee-count guidance) is documented in the corresponding single-line offering records, not this one.

Cowbell says the product targets SME private companies with under 250 employees and under $50M in assets, and lists target industries including specialty chemicals, technology, energy/utilities, construction, manufacturing, hospitality, retail, and integrated freight & logistics. ⁸Company-reported. FAQ 'What size accounts are targeted?' and 'Target industries' list.

Beazley lists coverage features shared across the bundle: broad insured-person investigation and inquiry coverage, books-and-records coverage, workplace-violence coverage with a business-interruption sublimit, and privacy-violation coverage affecting employees. ³Company-reported. ExecuGuard product page feature list; exclusions and conditions are set by the issued policy.

The combined policy adds sublimited extensions for immigration-practices defense costs, OSHA proceedings and (subject to underwriting) wage-and-hour defense costs, plus settlor-capacity protection now written into the fiduciary insuring clauses. ³Company-reported. ExecuGuard product page; sublimit amounts are not published and appear only on a quote.

Zurich's own page names the four Select Plus modules as 'Private Management and Company Liability,' 'Employment Practices and Third-Party Discrimination Liability,' 'Fiduciary Liability,' and 'Crime Insurance' -- broader labels than the plain 'D&O' and 'EPL' shorthand Cowbell's FAQ uses -- and says a buyer can combine up to four of these modules into one policy. ⁷Company-reported. Zurich page 'Protect your small to midsize business with Zurich's Select Plus Management Liability solutions' section.

Cowbell describes management liability as a modular umbrella covering four lines within the Select Plus product: private company D&O, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, and crime, each addressing a different category of management or employee risk. ⁸Company-reported. FAQ 'What is the difference between management liability and D&O?'.

Beazley advertises combined ExecuGuard limits up to US $20 million, which the buyer can structure as separate limits per coverage or a single shared limit across D&O, EPL and fiduciary. ³Company-reported. Advertised maximum capacity, not a guaranteed quote amount.

Neither the Cowbell page nor Zurich's own Select Plus page publishes limit or retention amounts for the modules; both were read in full and neither discloses a figure. ^8,7Not publicly disclosed. Cowbell page and Zurich page, both read on 2026-09-23.

ExecuGuard policyholders can choose counsel from an approved panel and get access to BeazleySure risk-management resources. The combined page does not list specific tools. ³Company-reported. ExecuGuard product page; the EPL and fiduciary offering records list the specific BeazleySure features named on their own pages.

Cowbell says the product is backed by Zurich's claims service, and frames the offering's advantage as faster quoting and issuance through Cowbell's technology platform compared with Zurich's standard process, rather than describing separate risk-control services. ⁸Company-reported. Page intro and FAQ 'What makes the Zurich Select Plus offering through Cowbell unique?'.

The ExecuGuard page does not describe a self-service online quoting flow; it lists named Executive Risk underwriters by region as broker/buyer contacts instead. ³Company-reported. ExecuGuard product page team listing as read on 2026-09-23.

Access is limited to appointed wholesalers of Zurich Excess & Surplus (E&S): a wholesaler already appointed by Zurich E&S can reach the product through the Cowbell platform via API, and is directed to contact a Cowbell or Zurich representative to set that up. The product is not sold directly to businesses. ⁸Company-reported. FAQ 'How can I access the Zurich Select Plus management liability product through Cowbell?'.

Beazley illustrates its claims approach for the bundle with a securities class-action and shareholder derivative-action scenario in which its claims team worked with the insured's defense counsel toward a dismissal; this is a single company-reported example, not audited claims-outcome data. ³Company-reported. ExecuGuard page scenario section; outcome statistics are not independently verified.

Cowbell says the most common management liability claims fall under employment practices liability, citing discrimination, wrongful termination, harassment, and retaliation as the most frequent claim types. ⁸Company-reported. FAQ 'What is the most common management liability claim?'; describes claim frequency, not Cowbell's own claims-handling process.