Embroker vs USI Insurance Services 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.

USI is a broker, not an insurer, for cyber coverage. It places cyber and privacy liability policies for clients and layers on its own manuscripted program, PrivaSafe, rather than underwriting the risk itself. ^8,6Company-reported. PrivaSafe program page and USI's property & casualty and technology practice pages.

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USI does not name the insurer that issues PrivaSafe or other cyber policies on the pages reviewed. PrivaSafe is described as a manuscripted (custom-drafted) coverage form that USI negotiates with the market, so the carrier varies by placement. ⁸Not publicly disclosed. PrivaSafe program page as read on 2026-09-23; no dedicated cyber carrier list was found.

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.

USI markets PrivaSafe to middle-market firms, saying they are particularly vulnerable to cyber events because they have limited in-house access to security expertise. The page also says any business that gathers personal or health information, manages a network, or accepts electronic payments is a potential target. ⁸Company-reported. Program page marketing description, not an underwriting appetite statement.

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.

USI describes PrivaSafe as covering three areas: liability costs (including inability to protect information and related tort liability), compliance and corrective costs (data breach and forensic costs, privacy regulatory costs, payment-card standards), and direct costs (network interruption, data reconstruction, cyber extortion, bricking, voluntary shutdown, reputational harm business interruption, and cyber crime). ⁸Company-reported. PrivaSafe program page; actual insuring agreements and exclusions are set by the issued policy form.

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.

USI says PrivaSafe can prevent uninsured or underinsured losses up to $10 million, includes up to $2 million in notification-cost coverage in addition to the policy's aggregate limit, and $250,000 in defense-cost coverage outside the limit (with additional limit available). ⁸Company-reported. Program page figures describe the PrivaSafe structure generally; a buyer's actual limits, sublimits and retentions are set on the policy declarations.

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USI says PrivaSafe includes pre-breach services to help avoid cyber threats and post-breach services designed to streamline incident response and recovery, on top of USI's general property & casualty cyber specialists. ^8,9Company-reported. Program page and property-casualty practice team description.

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.

To review cyber exposure with USI, the program page says a buyer should be ready to provide current cyber policies (if any), an assessment of its largest financial and operational cyber vulnerabilities, and its most recent audited financials. ⁸Company-reported. PrivaSafe program page intake description.