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## Agent Guide

**What this page is:** Engineering and design firm insurance: professional E&O, general liability, property, inland marine and product liability, stage by stage.

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- Describes Spot's own service; it does not establish coverage terms or outcomes for any company.

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# Spot for Engineering and Design Firms

Get quotes from 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

[Get Started](https://app.spot.insure/signup?coverage=professional-errors-omissions&industry=engineering-product-design&icp=manufacturing). Spot is not an insurance carrier and takes no commissions on premiums; you can keep your broker or switch.

## How Spot helps

1. **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.
2. **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.
3. **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.
4. **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.

## Who 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.

## Coverage

- [Professional errors and omissions (E&O)](https://spot.insure/insurance/professional-errors-omissions)
- [General liability](https://spot.insure/insurance/general-liability)
- [Commercial property](https://spot.insure/insurance/commercial-property)
- [Tools, equipment and inland marine](https://spot.insure/insurance/inland-marine)
- [Equipment breakdown](https://spot.insure/insurance/equipment-breakdown)
- [Product liability](https://spot.insure/insurance/product-liability)

## When to get this coverage

- **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.
- **You’re hosting visitors or demoing a prototype.** Workshop visits, demos, customer-site testing and installation should all be listed in the liability description.
- **You’re leasing a workshop or buying test rigs.** Schedule building interests, machinery, prototypes and customer property at accurate values.
- **Prototypes travel to pilots or trade shows.** Inland marine terms depend on items, destinations and stages like loading, testing and installation.
- **You’re about to ship hardware.** Product liability needs the versions, installations and territories you sell. Ask separately about recall expense.

## Common questions

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.

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- [Business Insurance by Industry](https://spot.insure/insurance-for)

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