Newfront vs StartupInsurance.ai Fiduciary Liability Insurance

Newfront's Executive Risk practice brokers fiduciary liability coverage, negotiating placement for management-liability lines. Deirdre Finn, the Executive Risk Solutions Practice Leader, oversees the D&O, employment-practices and fiduciary book of business. ⁵Company-reported. Executive Risk offering page and Leadership section.

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. ⁸Company-reported. Homepage "Coverage: What we place" list as read on 2026-09-23.

The reviewed Executive Risk page does not name the insurer or insurers that would issue a fiduciary liability policy placed through Newfront. ⁵Not publicly disclosed. Executive Risk page as read on 2026-09-23; carrier depends on the specific placement.

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. ⁸Not publicly disclosed. Homepage carrier panel as read on 2026-09-23.

Newfront says it services private companies from seed round through every series of funding and has worked with over 500 publicly traded companies, without a fiduciary-specific eligibility threshold. ⁵Company-reported. Here for the Long Run section; figures describe the executive-risk practice broadly, not fiduciary liability specifically.

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Newfront lists Fiduciary among its Executive Risk Key Coverages, and says its work includes "safeguarding fiduciaries against breach of duty, mismanagement claims, and excessive fee allegations" for benefit-plan decision makers. ⁵Company-reported. Key Coverages list and Committed to Client Advocacy section.

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. ⁸Company-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.

The reviewed Executive Risk page does not publish fiduciary-liability limits or retentions. ⁵Not publicly disclosed. Executive Risk page as read on 2026-09-23.

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Newfront says clients get 24/7 access to their insurance program through its connected dashboard, and that renewal submissions use automated, pre-populated historical data. ⁵Company-reported. Industry-Leading Technology section; described across Executive Risk lines, not fiduciary-specific.

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. ⁸Company-reported. Homepage service description; a marketing offer describing what the review covers, not a report on any specific customer's fiduciary policy.

You start a fiduciary liability placement by requesting a consultation through Newfront's Executive Risk page. ⁵Company-reported. Executive Risk page call-to-action; no online quoting or binding described.

"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." ⁷Company-reported. Initial coverage-selection screen of the quote application; does not show the underwriting questions that follow for this line.

Newfront says it provides "integrated claims and coverage negotiation" for its Executive Risk lines, which would apply to a fiduciary liability claim. ⁵Company-reported. The Newfront Difference section; described across Executive Risk lines, not a fiduciary-specific claims workflow.

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