Coverdash vs Lockton Crime Insurance

Coverdash brokers crime digitally; Lockton brokers crime and fidelity with an in-house Professional & Executive Risk claims team and an FI-bond distinction.

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 Lockton?

Lockton is a privately held insurance brokerage that arranges commercial risk, employee benefits and retirement programs. US pages describe a technology practice and intermediary placement with insurers, not Lockton as the policy’s insurer. 6,7,8

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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. 10

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Key Differences in Crime Insurance

Digital Brokerage Versus Claims-Integrated Broking

Coverdash arranges commercial crime as a broker and describes a fully digital quote-to-purchase process. Lockton places Crime and Fidelity as a brokered program and says its Professional & Executive Risk Claims team, which integrates insurance and claims counsel inside the broking team, handles those claims. Coverdash’s reviewed crime pages do not describe a comparable claims-advocacy team. 4 3 9

Financial Institution Bond Versus Money Handlers

Lockton says crime is relevant to nonprofit, private and public organizations of any sector, flags small businesses that lack fraud-prevention resources, and notes financial institutions are frequently required to carry a financial institution bond distinct from general crime. Coverdash markets commercial crime to any business that handles money, payroll or valuable inventory, without that bond distinction. 9 4

Claim Types Lockton Itemizes

Lockton lists employee theft, forgery or alteration, theft on or off premises, computer fraud, counterfeit currency, and social-engineering impersonation involving customers, vendors or employees. Coverdash describes employee theft, forged checks and counterfeit currency, funds-transfer fraud and social engineering. Neither page names a placing insurer; Coverdash also does not publish limits. 9 4

What to Confirm in Crime Insurance Quotes

  • Ask Lockton whether you need a financial institution bond rather than general crime. 9
  • Get both issuing carriers and limits. 9 4
  • Ask whether Lockton’s on-or-off-premises theft appears on Coverdash’s placed form. 9 4
  • Ask Coverdash how crime and cyber would coordinate; ask Lockton how its claims team would advocate a social-engineering loss. 5 9

Offering Details

Coverdash vs Lockton Crime Insurance: documented features by provider

CriteriaCoverdash Commercial Crime InsuranceLockton Crime and Fidelity Insurance Brokerage
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.

Lockton places Crime and Fidelity insurance to protect businesses against financial losses from theft, fraud, forgery and embezzlement by employees or third parties; it describes this as a brokered program, not a policy Lockton underwrites. 9Company-reported. Crime and Fidelity product page as read 2026-09-23.

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.

The page does not name the insurers Lockton places crime and fidelity coverage with. 9Not publicly disclosed. Crime and Fidelity page checked 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.

Lockton says crime coverage is relevant to nonprofit, private and public organizations of any sector, and calls out small businesses as particularly exposed because they often lack fraud-prevention and auditing resources. It also notes financial institutions are frequently required to carry a financial institution bond, distinct from general crime coverage. 9Company-reported. Crime and Fidelity product page as read 2026-09-23.

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.

Lockton lists the claim types a crime and fidelity program is meant to address: employee theft, forgery or alteration of negotiable instruments, theft on or off premises, computer fraud, counterfeit currency, and social engineering (impersonation) fraud involving customers, vendors or employees. 9Company-reported. Product page as read 2026-09-23; a capability/claim-type list, not a specimen policy.

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.

Not described in the reviewed sources.

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.

Not described in the reviewed sources.

Claims Support

Not described in the reviewed sources.

Lockton says its Professional & Executive Risk Claims team, which integrates insurance and claims counsel within the broking team rather than treating claims advocacy as a separate profit center, handles Crime and Fidelity claims. 9Company-reported. Product page as read 2026-09-23. Describes Lockton's advocacy role, not an insurer's claim-paying obligation.

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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.

Lockton

  1. Lockton United States. Lockton; Opening description of independent insurance brokerage for risk, benefits and retirement; Ask an Expert link to contact-us. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  2. Technology. Lockton; Industry introduction; cyber liability heading; dedicated technology team; listed services including claims advocacy, contract review, directors and officers liability, and international program design; 24/7 service model. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  3. US Terms of Business. Lockton; Opening entity definition; Surplus Lines; Use of a Particular Insurer; Compensation Disclosure; servicing, claims handling and renewal language in Confidentiality section; Intermediaries. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  4. Crime and Fidelity Insurance. Lockton; What is Crime and Fidelity Insurance?; Who needs to purchase Crime and Fidelity Insurance?; Types of Crime and Fidelity claims; Claims management. Accessed 2026-09-23.

Crime Insurance Guide

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

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