HUB International vs StartupInsurance.ai General Liability Insurance

HUB brokers commercial general liability coverage rather than underwriting it itself, placing the policy with an insurer on the client's behalf. ⁴Company-reported. General liability product page as read on 2026-09-23; the page does not name an issuing insurer.

StartupInsurance.ai lists general liability among the lines its startup program places. The brokerage is ContractorNerd Insurance Services, LLC, which its own terms describe as an insurance agency/producer that arranges coverage and does not underwrite policies itself. ^7,8Company-reported. Homepage coverage list and ContractorNerd's terms and conditions; describes the brokerage's role generally and names general liability as one of the placed lines, not a specific policy's terms.

The general liability product page does not name an issuing insurer; HUB places general liability business with insurers that vary by client and placement. ⁴Not found in reviewed sources. Checked the general liability product page on 2026-09-23; no carrier is disclosed there.

StartupInsurance.ai's carrier panel names six insurers (The Hartford, Chubb, Coalition, Tokio Marine HCC, Travelers and CNA), with ratings shown for three of them, but the reviewed pages do not say which panel carrier issues a given company's general liability policy. ⁷Not publicly disclosed. Homepage carrier panel; the panel is program-wide and not broken out by coverage line, so the specific insurer for a general liability placement is not disclosed and varies by placement.

Not described in the reviewed sources.

StartupInsurance.ai frames its "what cleared means" pitch around certificates of insurance naming a customer or landlord as additional insured, primary and non-contributory, with a waiver of subrogation — requirements that typically apply to general liability policies. ⁷Company-reported. Homepage narrative section aimed at founders who need a certificate to satisfy a landlord or customer contract; does not state formal underwriting eligibility criteria (industry, revenue, headcount) for general liability.

HUB says general liability policies it arranges typically respond to bodily injury to customers, employees, vendors or visitors on the client's premises, personal injury from an employee's negligence or actions, property damage caused by employees, and advertising injury such as slander or false advertising claims. ⁴Company-reported. Product-page description of typical coverage scenarios; the issued policy and its exclusions control what a specific claim triggers.

StartupInsurance.ai says that in January 2026 the standard general liability forms industry-wide picked up three new AI-related exclusions, and illustrates its policy-check service with an example flagging exclusion form CG 40 42. ⁷Company-reported. Homepage "Wording that still says yes" section; describes an industry-wide forms change the brokerage says it checks for, not the terms of any specific StartupInsurance.ai-placed policy.

Published per-occurrence or aggregate limits, deductibles or retentions for HUB-placed general liability policies were not found on the product page. ⁴Not publicly disclosed. Checked the general liability product page on 2026-09-23; limits are set on the quote and declarations, not the marketing page.

The reviewed pages do not publish sample general liability limits, sublimits or retentions; StartupInsurance.ai's public marketing pages do not show program-level numbers for this line. ^7,6Not found in reviewed sources. Homepage and quote-intake screen as read on 2026-09-23; limits would only surface on an actual quote.

The general liability product page does not describe line-specific risk-control or safety services; it only lists related products such as business interruption, D&O, EPL and workers' compensation insurance. ⁴Not found in reviewed sources. Checked the general liability product page on 2026-09-23.

StartupInsurance.ai offers a free policy check: send in your current policies and a customer contract, and within 48 hours you get a one-page summary of AI exclusions in your program and where your contract asks for something the policy doesn't give. ⁷Company-reported. Homepage service description; a marketing offer, not a guarantee of findings for any particular general liability policy.

HUB says the amount of general liability coverage a business needs depends on factors such as the type of business and its location, and directs prospects to contact a HUB broker to get started. ⁴Company-reported. Product-page copy; no online quote or bind flow is described.

General Liability (GL) is one of seven coverage boxes on StartupInsurance.ai's online quote-intake screen, described there as covering "bodily injury, property damage, and advertising injury." ⁶Company-reported. Initial coverage-selection screen of the quote application; does not show what follow-up underwriting questions or documentation the flow requires.