Coalition vs Embroker Cyber Insurance

Coalition designs and distributes its own cyber policy and pairs it with security monitoring and incident-response services. ⁵Company-reported. U.S. Active Cyber Insurance for small and midsize businesses, as described on the product page.

Embroker sells a standalone cyber liability policy and separately notes lawyers professional liability buyers should also review its cyber page, describing cyber as covering both first-party and third-party losses. ¹⁴Company-reported. Product-page description; not a statement about the issuing insurer for this line.

Admitted cyber policies are issued by Coalition Insurance Company. Non-admitted (surplus lines) policies are placed with unaffiliated insurers, so the carrier depends on the policy route. ⁷Company-reported. U.S. disclaimers for admitted and non-admitted cyber; restates the verified provider fact insurer-route.

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Coalition states that its admitted and surplus lines cyber policies are offered in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. ⁸Company-reported. Availability help article; eligibility for a particular business depends on underwriting.

Embroker markets cyber coverage to startups and tech companies, financial institutions, professional services firms, small and medium-sized businesses, healthcare providers and law firms, citing data-handling and digital-system exposure as the common thread. ¹⁴Company-reported. Product-page 'Who is cyber insurance coverage for?' section; not a guarantee of eligibility for a particular business.

Coalition says breach-response expenses have a separate limit, so response costs do not use up the limit for other coverages. ⁵Company-reported. Product-page description; the issued policy and declarations control.

Coalition lists pay-on-behalf cyber extortion coverage, funds transfer fraud and business interruption losses among its cyber coverages. ⁵Company-reported. Product-page coverage highlights, subject to exclusions and the policy as issued.

Embroker lists network security liability, privacy liability, data loss and recovery, business interruption, computer fraud and social-engineering losses, and cyber extortion including ransom payments among what the policy addresses. ¹⁴Company-reported. Product-page 'What does cyber insurance cover?' section; the issued policy and declarations control.

Embroker says a breach response can include notification costs, credit monitoring for affected individuals, civil damages, computer forensics investigation, and coverage for reputational-damage costs such as PR management. ¹⁴Company-reported. Product-page breach-response cost list.

Embroker warns that errors and omissions insurance is not cyber insurance and cannot substitute for it, even if the E&O policy has a technology error rider. ¹⁴Company-reported. Product-page 'Important Note'; distinguishes cyber from Embroker's separate tech E&O/cyber bundled product.

Embroker separates first-party coverage (the policyholder's own incident-response, data-recovery and business-interruption costs) from third-party coverage (legal defense, settlements, regulatory fines and damages to affected parties). ¹⁴Company-reported. Product-page 'First-party coverage vs. third-party coverage' section.

Coalition offers U.S. surplus lines excess cyber coverage above an underlying policy. Its public pages do not publish maximum primary limits or retentions. ^10,5Company-reported. Excess product help article; limit and retention amounts appear only on quotes.

The reviewed cyber product page does not publish specific limit or deductible amounts; a page section titled 'Does cyber insurance have a deductible?' is listed in the index but returns no disclosed figures. ¹⁴Not publicly disclosed. Product page as read on 2026-09-23.

Policyholders get Coalition Control at no additional cost, including attack-surface monitoring, vendor risk monitoring, zero-day alerts and Login Security for Microsoft or Google accounts. ⁶Company-reported. Coalition Control policyholder features page.

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You buy Coalition cyber through an appointed insurance broker. Underwriting considers industry, finances, operations and security posture. ⁹Company-reported. Qualification help article; restates the verified provider fact broker-application.

Embroker offers a free online risk-profile tool and says applicants can request a cyber insurance quote in under 10 minutes by describing their business. ¹⁴Company-reported. Product-page calls to action; no quote was requested during this research.

Coalition describes an in-house cyber claims team and an affiliated incident response firm, Coalition Incident Response, and says it often recovers stolen funds after transfer fraud. ⁵Company-reported. Product page claims and incident-response sections; outcome statistics are company-reported and not independently verified.

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