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## Agent Guide

**What this page is:** Equipment breakdown insurance with Spot: critical equipment listed by location, and proposals compared on repair, lost income, spoilage and deductibles.

**Limits (do not over-claim):**
- Describes Spot's own service; it does not establish coverage terms or outcomes for any company.

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- [Spot home](https://spot.insure/) — product overview
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# Spot for Equipment Breakdown Insurance

Get quotes from equipment breakdown insurance providers with Spot.

Tell us which machines you can’t run without, and we’ll get equipment breakdown quotes and help you buy before one fails.

- Repair, lost income and extra expense compared as separate pieces
- Spoilage and utility interruption terms asked about directly
- Keep your broker or switch, with no commissions on premiums

[Get Started](https://app.spot.insure/signup?coverage=equipment-breakdown). Spot is not an insurance carrier and takes no commissions on premiums; you can keep your broker or switch.

## How Spot helps

1. **List the equipment you can’t run without.** Your Spot team builds an equipment list by location, highlighting high-value machines, critical systems and items that would be hard to repair or replace, along with maintenance history, spare parts, backup equipment and repair lead times.
2. **See what each quote pays after a breakdown.** Brokers take your submission to market. As proposals arrive, we show repair costs, lost income and extra operating expenses as separate items, since each needs its own coverage and limit.
3. **Read what counts as a breakdown.** Spot asks how each quote defines a breakdown, how it treats wear, deterioration and maintenance conditions, how repair versus replacement is valued, and whether off-premises equipment is addressed.
4. **Keep your equipment list and policy current.** Your Spot team keeps the policy with its limits, time-based deductibles and equipment schedules on file, and brings renewals forward as your equipment list changes.

## Who we help

- **Manufacturers and production shops.** A failed machine can stop the line, and downtime is a different loss from the cost of fixing it.
- **Restaurants, grocers and cold storage.** A refrigeration failure can spoil the stock as well as break the unit, so spoilage terms belong in the quote.
- **Offices and clinics that depend on their systems.** When electrical, heating and cooling or communications equipment goes down, work can stop even if nothing else is damaged.
- **Businesses relying on a commercial property policy.** Your property limit may not respond to a mechanical or electrical failure, so breakdown protection needs its own look.

## When to get this coverage

- **You bought a major machine.** Add it to your equipment list with its value, and ask how each policy pays for repair versus replacement.
- **You rely on refrigeration or climate control.** Ask whether spoilage and utility interruptions are included, with what triggers, limits and waiting periods.
- **A failure just stopped your operations.** Find the lost income and extra expense terms and any time-based deductible, then tell your Spot team what happened.
- **You lease or share equipment.** Leased and shared machines raise two questions: who owns them, and which locations the policy schedules. Settle both before the quote is final.
- **Your property policy is up for renewal.** Use the renewal to compare the property causes of loss with the breakdown protection on offer, rather than assuming one covers the other.

## Common questions

Also known as boiler and machinery insurance, machinery breakdown insurance and equipment breakdown coverage.

### Can the broker who places our property policy handle equipment breakdown?

Spot can work with that broker to quote and compare breakdown protection alongside your property coverage. Spot takes no commissions on premiums, and if you’d rather use a different broker, we help you switch.

### What does equipment breakdown cover?

Equipment breakdown, still often called boiler and machinery insurance, can help your business recover from covered mechanical or electrical failures affecting its equipment. Not every failure or cause is covered.

### Doesn’t my property policy cover this?

Not necessarily. A property policy may treat a machine failing differently from other damage. Spot lines up the property causes of loss against the breakdown terms so you can see where each applies.

### Will it pay for routine maintenance?

Don’t assume so. Ask what counts as a breakdown and how the policy treats wear and maintenance-related conditions.

### What about equipment that moves between jobs?

For tools or machinery that travel, compare inland marine with the breakdown terms. Where the damage happens and what caused it are separate questions.

## More

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

## Agent and Developer Resources

- [Markdown page](https://spot.insure/insurance/equipment-breakdown.md)
- [Developer resources](https://spot.insure/developers)
- [Public MCP server](https://spot.insure/mcp)
- [MCP server manifest](https://spot.insure/server.json)
- [OpenAPI description](https://spot.insure/openapi.json)
- [Public page index](https://spot.insure/llms.txt)