Coalition vs Risklytics 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.

Risklytics Insurance Services is a licensed insurance producer (NPN 22311838) that places Risklytics Cyber Liability Insurance with outside carriers; it says it does not underwrite policies itself. ¹¹Company-reported. About page; describes Risklytics' brokerage model generally, restated 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.

Risklytics does not name the carrier that underwrites Risklytics Cyber Liability Insurance on its site. It says it places business with specialist insurers willing to write robotics, autonomy and AI risk; the issuing carrier appears on the bound policy. ^14,11Company-reported. Lines page and about page; no specific insurer is published for this line.

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.

Risklytics says companies typically need this coverage the first time they hold customer data in production, and that enterprise and government contracts require it once a vendor touches their data. ¹⁴Company-reported. Lines page.

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.

Risklytics describes Cyber Liability as paying for breach cleanup, legally required notifications, and the claims that follow a hack or data leak, such as a ransomware attack or exfiltrated customer records, and says it does not respond to a model giving bad output with no breach involved. ¹⁴Company-reported. Lines page; the issued policy and declarations control actual coverage.

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.

Risklytics lists a typical ask of $1 million or more in enterprise contracts for this line. ¹⁴Company-reported. Lines page; actual limits are set on the bound policy.

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.

Risklytics calls cyber the easiest line for its clients to get with reasonable security basics in place, and says whether a prompt-injection attack or a model leaking data is covered depends on policy wording it reads before binding. ¹⁴Company-reported. Lines page.

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.

You start Risklytics Cyber Liability Insurance through Risklytics' online application. Risklytics says there is no broker fee on top of the premium and a licensed producer stays on the file until the program binds; its commission is paid by the carrier out of the premium either way. ^15,11Company-reported. Pricing page describes the general application and fee process, not a line-specific form.

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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