Coverdash vs Gallagher Crime Insurance

Coverdash offers a digital crime purchase path; Gallagher Small Business uses an advisor form and, for larger accounts, peer analysis to set crime limits.

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. 1,2,3

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What Is Gallagher?

Gallagher is a business-insurance broker and risk-management consultancy. Its technology practice serves startups through global enterprises, alongside a separate small-business offering for IT professionals and an executive-risk practice covering D&O and transaction-related coverages. Woodruff Sawyer is now part of Gallagher. 6,7,8,9,10

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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. 12

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Key Differences in Crime Insurance

Digital Purchase Versus Advisor Form

Coverdash describes a fully digital quote-to-purchase process for commercial crime. Gallagher’s small-business crime page routes buyers to a Connect With An Advisor form that asks for company details, business description, other coverage interests, employee count and annual revenue. Both arrange coverage with outside carriers rather than underwriting. 4 3 11 8

Limit Method Gallagher Describes

For larger accounts, Gallagher says its methodology for setting crime coverage limits includes peer analysis using third-party databases and an exposure index developed by the Surety Association of America with the American Institute of Accountants. Coverdash’s crime page does not describe a limit-setting methodology and does not publish figures. Gallagher’s pages also do not publish specific limits. 8 4 11

Perils Each Page Names

Coverdash describes employee theft, forged checks and counterfeit currency, funds-transfer fraud and social engineering. Gallagher describes Fidelity and Crime as covering fraudulent or dishonest acts, including credit card forgery, computer fraud, funds-transfer fraud, employee fraud, theft and destruction of property. Neither crime page names the issuing insurer. 4 11

Who It Is For

Coverdash markets to businesses that handle money, payroll or valuable inventory. Gallagher recommends the coverage for small businesses exposed to funds-transfer, computer or employee fraud, or destruction of personal property, with a separate practice for larger executive-risk accounts. 4 11 8

What to Confirm in Crime Insurance Quotes

  • Ask Gallagher whether your crime quote is small-business or executive-risk, and which carrier issues it. 11 8
  • Get Coverdash’s issuing carrier and compare both limits. 4
  • Ask whether Gallagher’s credit-card forgery and property-destruction perils appear on Coverdash’s placed form. 11 4
  • Ask Coverdash how crime and cyber would coordinate on overlapping fraud. 5

Offering Details

Coverdash vs Gallagher Crime Insurance: documented features by provider

CriteriaCoverdash Commercial Crime InsuranceGallagher Small Business Fidelity and Crime Insurance
Role in This Line

Coverdash arranges commercial crime coverage as a broker rather than an insurer, placing coverage with a carrier under its standard brokerage terms. 3,4Company-reported. General brokerage terms applied to the crime page; not specific to any one carrier or state.

Gallagher Small Business arranges Fidelity and Crime coverage with outside carriers for small-business clients; its group-level Executive and Financial Risk practice separately places the same coverage for larger accounts. Gallagher does not underwrite either policy. 11,8Company-reported. Small-business crime product page and the group-level executive-risk practice page.

Issuing Insurer

The commercial crime page does not name the insurer that issues the policy. 4Not publicly disclosed. Reviewed commercial crime page as of 2026-09-23; the page describes coverage without naming a specific carrier.

Neither the small-business crime page nor the executive-risk practice page names the insurer that would issue a given client's crime policy. 11,8Not publicly disclosed. Checked both pages on 2026-09-23.

Who It’s For

Coverdash markets commercial crime coverage to any business that handles money, payroll or valuable inventory. 4Company-reported. Product-page eligibility description; actual acceptance depends on underwriting.

Gallagher recommends this coverage for small businesses exposed to funds-transfer fraud, computer fraud, employee fraud, or destruction of personal property. 11Company-reported. Small-business crime product page "Do you need Fidelity and Crime insurance?" list; actual acceptance depends on underwriting.

Coverage Features

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. 4Company-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. 4Not found in reviewed sources. Comparison of the cyber and crime-coverage product pages; overlap-resolution language was not found on either page.

Gallagher describes Fidelity and Crime insurance as covering losses from fraudulent or dishonest acts, including credit card forgery, computer fraud, funds-transfer fraud, employee fraud, theft and destruction of property. 11Company-reported. Small-business crime product page; a coverage description, not a specific policy's insuring agreement or exclusions.

Limits and Retentions

The commercial crime page does not publish specific limit, retention or deductible amounts. 4Not publicly disclosed. Reviewed commercial crime page as of 2026-09-23; figures are quote-specific and not shown on the public product page.

Neither page publishes specific crime coverage limits or premium ranges. 11,8Not publicly disclosed. Checked both pages on 2026-09-23.

Risk Services

Not described in the reviewed sources.

For larger accounts, Gallagher says its methodology for setting crime coverage limits includes peer analysis using third-party databases and an exposure index developed by the Surety Association of America with the American Institute of Accountants. 8Company-reported. Group-level executive-risk practice page; not confirmed as applied to the small-business product.

How to Apply

Coverdash describes a fully digital quote-to-purchase process for commercial crime coverage, with the option to add other coverages alongside it. 4Company-reported. Product-page company information and cross-sell section.

The small-business crime page routes buyers to a Connect With An Advisor form asking for company details, business description, other coverage interests, employee count and annual revenue. 11Company-reported. Product page inquiry form, inspected without submission.

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Sources

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.

Gallagher

  1. Technology Insurance. Gallagher; Introduction; Solutions and coverages for the technology industry: Technology errors and omissions including cyber, Intellectual property insurance, Product liability, Employee benefits; Data-driven insights; global network. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  2. Insurance for Technology & IT Businesses. Gallagher Small Business; Protection for IT Professionals & Their Technology-Based Businesses; recommended coverage menu, including Surety Bond Programs; Connect With An Advisor. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  3. Executive and Financial Risk Insurance. Gallagher; Employee Dishonesty (Crime) and Fidelity Bond insurance section. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  4. Legal Information. Gallagher Small Business; Producer identification immediately above Quick Links. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  5. Woodruff Sawyer Is Now Gallagher. Gallagher; Opening; Executive and Financial Risk consulting; Continued access to client portals; contact form. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  6. Crime. Gallagher Small Business; Coverage Overview; Do you need Fidelity and Crime insurance?; Connect With An Advisor form. Accessed 2026-09-23.

Crime Insurance Guide

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

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