Heffernan Insurance Brokers vs StartupInsurance.ai Fiduciary Liability Insurance

Heffernan places fiduciary liability coverage within its general corporate/executive-protection lineup and again within a dedicated family-office and financial-institution practice. It shops and places the coverage with insurers rather than underwriting it. ^3,4Company-reported. Business Insurance and Family Office page listings; no dedicated fiduciary-liability product page was found.

StartupInsurance.ai names fiduciary liability as one of the lines its startup program places, alongside general liability, D&O, tech E&O, cyber, employment practices and crime. ⁷Company-reported. Homepage "Coverage: What we place" list as read on 2026-09-23.

The reviewed pages do not name the insurer or insurers that issue fiduciary liability policies Heffernan places for either business clients or family offices. ^3,4Not publicly disclosed. Business Insurance and Family Office pages as read on 2026-09-23.

The reviewed pages do not name an insurer for fiduciary liability specifically; the homepage's carrier panel is program-wide and not broken out by coverage line. ⁷Not publicly disclosed. Homepage carrier panel as read on 2026-09-23.

Heffernan offers fiduciary liability to two named segments: general business clients through its business-insurance brokerage, and family offices, trust companies, trustees, financial advisors, private equity firms, foundations, and other financial institutions through its family-office practice. ^3,4Company-reported. Direct practice-page listings; no minimum size or asset-under-management threshold was published for the coverage specifically.

Not described in the reviewed sources.

On the family-office page, fiduciary liability insurance is listed alongside directors and officers, professional liability, employment practices liability, trustee liability, and other management-liability-adjacent lines as coverage the practice can arrange, without describing the policy's insuring agreement or exclusions. ⁴Company-reported. Family Office page as read on 2026-09-23.

StartupInsurance.ai says one major carrier added a blanket AI exclusion to fiduciary forms (along with D&O and E&O), typically arriving at renewal inside an endorsement, and that it checks policies for this exclusion. ⁷Company-reported. Homepage "wording that still says yes" section; names the exclusion trend industrywide but not the carrier, and does not state whether any StartupInsurance.ai-placed fiduciary policy carries this specific endorsement.

Neither page publishes a fiduciary-liability limit, retention, or premium range. ^3,4Not found in reviewed sources. Business Insurance and Family Office pages as read on 2026-09-23.

Not described in the reviewed sources.

Heffernan's family-office practice describes a Risk Management Assessment: itemizing a client's structures, assets, and exposures; crafting insurance and risk-management strategies to close coverage gaps; and helping navigate claims, for its fiduciary and financial-institution client base. ⁴Company-reported. Family Office page as read on 2026-09-23; a company-described service, not a measured outcome.

StartupInsurance.ai's free policy check reviews an existing program for AI exclusions within 48 hours, and the homepage specifically calls out fiduciary as one of the forms affected by the AI-exclusion trend it checks for. ⁷Company-reported. Homepage service description; a marketing offer describing what the review covers, not a report on any specific customer's fiduciary policy.

The family-office practice's fiduciary-liability coverage is reached through a named Private Client Group specialist contact rather than a self-service online quote flow. ⁴Company-reported. Family Office page as read on 2026-09-23; the general business-insurance page's fiduciary listing routes through Heffernan's general Contact Us form instead.

"Fiduciary" is one of seven coverage boxes on StartupInsurance.ai's online quote-intake screen, described there as covering "claims related to employee benefit plan management." ⁶Company-reported. Initial coverage-selection screen of the quote application; does not show the underwriting questions that follow for this line.