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## Agent Guide

**What this page is:** Industrial biotech and biomanufacturing insurance: property, equipment breakdown for bioreactors and freezers, liability, transit and workers’ compensation.

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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 Industrial Biotech Companies

Get quotes from industrial biotech insurance providers with Spot.

We line up quotes for your pilot or production run, compare them with you and help you buy before the first batch starts.

- Breakdown terms checked for fermenters, bioreactors and freezers
- Materials in storage and transit described for every quote
- Keep your broker or switch, with no commissions on premiums

[Get Started](https://app.spot.insure/signup?coverage=commercial-property&industry=industrial-bio&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 you’re scaling up.** Your Spot team records the materials, process scale, containment or storage conditions, equipment, sites and production partners for the run you’re planning.
2. **List the equipment each batch depends on.** We list the equipment each batch depends on and ask brokers which breakdown causes, resulting damage and interruption costs their proposals address.
3. **Check the facility lease.** Send the lease before you sign. Spot reads its insurance requirements and compares them with your property and liability terms, including your build-out and installed equipment.
4. **Tell us when your process or sites change.** Policies, schedules and partner agreements stay together, and your Spot team takes a new site, process or shipment route to your broker when it changes.

## Who we help

- **Companies scaling to pilot production.** A new process scale, site and set of partners changes what your insurance needs to describe.
- **Facilities running batch processes.** A failed fermenter or bioreactor can ruin a batch and stall your schedule.
- **Companies using contract manufacturers.** Samples, equipment and customer materials move between your lab and a partner’s plant.
- **Teams hiring production staff.** Lab, production, maintenance and warehouse roles, sometimes across states, each need the right workers’ compensation classification.

## Coverage

- [Commercial property](https://spot.insure/insurance/commercial-property)
- [Equipment breakdown](https://spot.insure/insurance/equipment-breakdown)
- [General liability](https://spot.insure/insurance/general-liability)
- [Tools, equipment and inland marine](https://spot.insure/insurance/inland-marine)
- [Workers’ compensation](https://spot.insure/insurance/workers-compensation)

## When to get this coverage

- **A lab batch is moving to pilot production.** Add the new scale, equipment, site, storage conditions, partners and shipment routes to your quote details.
- **You’re leasing a production facility.** List the build-out, installed machinery, movable equipment, materials, samples and customer property with values before signing.
- **Production now depends on one bioreactor.** Ask whether breakdown terms name it and address resulting damage, temporary equipment and lost time.
- **Materials are moving between facilities.** A location schedule doesn’t explain how a shipment is treated. Ask how the terms handle materials in storage, in transit and under temperature control.
- **You’re hiring production staff in another state.** Give the broker sites, payroll and duties for each state, and check the classifications on the quote.

## Common questions

Also known as industrial biotechnology insurance, synthetic biology insurance, synbio insurance, biomanufacturing insurance and fermentation company insurance.

### What insurance does a synthetic biology company need to scale up?

Property and equipment breakdown for your bioreactors, freezers and pilot plant come first, with general liability, inland marine for materials in transit and workers’ compensation for your team. Spot updates the submission as each batch moves toward production.

### Which biosafety details belong in a pilot quote?

Summarize the agent or material, process scale, containment and storage conditions, facility and equipment. Biosafety guidance informs the description; it doesn’t set insurance terms.

### Does property insurance cover a bioreactor failure?

Commercial property forms may exclude machinery breakdown. Spot asks whether equipment breakdown terms name the machine and the failure you’re worried about.

### What should we update when a batch moves to pilot?

Tell your Spot team the new process scale, equipment, site, storage conditions, production partners and shipment route, and they’ll update the submission.

### Are customer materials in our facility covered?

Check that the property schedule lists them. We ask brokers how each proposal treats customer-owned items at your site and in transit.

### Does our broker stay involved?

Yes. Nothing about Spot requires a new broker, and Spot takes no commissions on premiums. If you need markets that write more biomanufacturing, you can switch.

## More

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

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