Spot for Engineering and Design Firms

Get quotes from 50+ engineering and design insurance providers with Spot

We get quotes for the work you deliver, from client drawings to prototypes, and help you buy before the next stage starts.

  • Design, prototype, pilot and shipping stages described separately
  • Professional E&O, property and product liability compared together
  • Keep your broker or switch, with no commissions on premiums
An industrial designer sketches on a drawing tablet beside a printed prototype.

How Spot helps Engineering and Design Firms

Tell us what stage your product is at

Your Spot team records whether you’re advising, prototyping, testing in the field, installing or shipping, and updates the submission as you move on.

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Travelers
The Hartford
Chubb

Compare quotes for each stage of work

When proposals come back from the brokers taking your submission to market, Spot asks how each one treats design advice, workshop visits, equipment in transit and a shipped product.

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The Hartford
TravelersQuote request

Professional errors and omissions (E&O) insurance

Professional services · Claims-made terms

Alder Manufacturing

Check pilot and customer contracts

Send a pilot agreement or customer contract. Spot compares its insurance clause with your policies and points out what’s missing before work starts.

Professional errors and omissions (E&O) insurance

Alder Manufacturing · Policy review

Policy wording
Coverage limits
Compare with
Contract requirements

Confirm with your broker

Limits, exclusions, and endorsements

Update your policies before your work changes

Spot keeps your policies together and brings renewals forward, so you can tell your broker before operations change.

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What do we need to request professional errors and omissions (e&o) insurance quotes?

Let’s prepare the information for your broker and compare the terms, not just the price.

Professional errors and omissions (E&O) insurance policy

Coverage terms · Limits

How buying insurance works for Engineering and Design Firms

  1. 01

    Tell us about your business

    Share what you do, where you work, the policies you have and any contracts that ask for insurance.

  2. 02

    We write up your application

    Spot turns it into an application that describes your business the way insurers need to see it.

  3. 03

    We get quotes from insurers

    Spot handles the procurement, sending it to the insurers and markets that cover businesses like yours and chasing every quote.

  4. 04

    Compare your quotes

    We put the quotes side by side on limits, exclusions and terms as well as price.

  5. 05

    Buy your policy and get certificates

    You choose. Spot places the policy for you, and certificates are ready when a customer or landlord asks.

Engineering and Design Firms we help

  • Engineering and design consultancies

    Customers build or install from your drawings and specifications, so design advice sits at the center of the quote.

  • Product design studios

    Workshop visits and prototype demos bring customers into your space.

  • Hardware teams running pilots

    Prototypes and test equipment travel to customer sites and trade shows.

  • Companies shipping their first product

    Once a device is sold, injury and property damage become real exposures.

Insurance Engineering and Design Firms usually carry

The policies companies like yours are usually asked for, and when each one comes up.

Insurers that quote Engineering and Design Firms

Get quotes from 50+ engineering and design insurance providers with Spot.

  • AIG
  • Alliance Risk
  • Amelia Risk
  • Aon
  • At-Bay
  • Beazley
  • Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance
  • And many more

When Engineering and Design Firms need insurance

  • 01

    A customer will build from your drawings or specs

    Ask whether professional liability names design, testing and implementation work, and how it treats rework or alleged financial loss.

  • 02

    You’re hosting visitors or demoing a prototype

    Workshop visits, demos, customer-site testing and installation should all be listed in the liability description.

  • 03

    You’re leasing a workshop or buying test rigs

    Schedule building interests, machinery, prototypes and customer property at accurate values.

  • 04

    Prototypes travel to pilots or trade shows

    Inland marine terms depend on items, destinations and stages like loading, testing and installation.

  • 05

    You’re about to ship hardware

    Product liability needs the versions, installations and territories you sell. Ask separately about recall expense.

Questions from Engineering and Design Firms

Also known as engineering firm insurance, engineers insurance, engineering consultant insurance, design firm insurance, product design firm insurance and industrial design insurance.

What insurance does an engineering firm need?

Professional E&O, also called professional liability, for your drawings and advice, then general liability and property. Once you build prototypes or ship hardware, inland marine and product liability join. Spot updates the mix as your work changes.

Does professional E&O cover an injury caused by a product?

Not necessarily. Professional liability addresses service errors, while product injury is a separate question. Spot asks brokers about both.

What happens to equipment coverage when a prototype goes to a pilot?

Your workshop property terms may not follow it. Spot lists the items, destinations and stages, and asks which form schedules them away from your shop.

What does a design firm send for its first quote?

Send your services and current stage, workshop and equipment details, prototype plans, pilot or customer agreements and where products will ship.

Our broker set us up as a consultancy. Do we need a new one now that we ship hardware?

Not necessarily. Spot works alongside your broker to update the submission for product work and takes no commissions on premiums. If they don’t place product liability for hardware, Spot can help you switch.

Get insurance off your to-do list.

Get quotes from 50+ engineering and design insurance providers with Spot. Keep your broker or switch, with no commissions on premiums.

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