Embroker vs Founder Shield Cyber Insurance

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. ⁴Company-reported. Product-page description; not a statement about the issuing insurer for this line.

Founder Shield is a retail insurance brokerage, described on its site as “the innovation arm of The Baldwin Group,” and places Founder Shield Cyber Liability Insurance with third-party carriers rather than underwriting the policy itself. ¹¹Company-reported. About-us page; applies to Founder Shield's brokerage model generally, restated here for this line.

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Founder Shield says it places policies, including Founder Shield Cyber Liability Insurance, only with carriers rated A- or better by AM Best, chosen for the client's industry. It does not name the issuing insurer for this line; that depends on which carrier the policy is placed with. ⁷Company-reported. General carrier-selection FAQ, not specific to this line's placements.

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. ⁴Company-reported. Product-page 'Who is cyber insurance coverage for?' section; not a guarantee of eligibility for a particular business.

Founder Shield calls cyber coverage a priority for healthcare, financial services, SaaS and e-commerce companies, citing their exposure to data breaches and business interruption. ¹⁰Company-reported. Cyber Liability product page.

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. ⁴Company-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. ⁴Company-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. ⁴Company-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). ⁴Company-reported. Product-page 'First-party coverage vs. third-party coverage' section.

Founder Shield lists loss or damage to electronic data, income loss and extra expense from a system outage, cyber extortion payments, and breach-notification and reputation-management costs as the branches of cyber coverage it places. ¹⁰Company-reported. Product page; the issued policy and declarations control actual coverage.

Founder Shield says cyber policies typically exclude loss of value from stolen IP, internal technology system upgrades, and possible future lost profits. ¹⁰Company-reported. Product page; specific exclusions depend on the issued policy.

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. ⁴Not publicly disclosed. Product page as read on 2026-09-23.

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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. ⁴Company-reported. Product-page calls to action; no quote was requested during this research.

You request Founder Shield Cyber Liability Insurance through Founder Shield's website or an insurance advisor rather than binding coverage directly; Founder Shield says its placement team then approaches carriers on the client's behalf. ^11,7Company-reported. About-us and carrier-selection pages describe the general placement process, not a line-specific application form.