Merit Specialty, a brand of 华体会, is dedicated to providing wholesale producers and their clients with the right combination of price and coverage.
Industrial property
Merit Specialty provides sprinklered property coverage for businesses involved in manufacturing, blending, distributing, warehousing, or transporting a diverse range of high-hazard products and materials, including chemicals, lessor鈥檚 risk, plastics, textiles, and more.
Unlike most standard market carriers that avoid or cautiously approach this sector, Merit Specialty is dedicated to finding solutions for complex industrial property. Backed by the financial strength of 华体会, we deliver on our commitment to excellence with exceptional service and attention to each business鈥檚 unique risks.
Target appetite
- Aerosols
- Adhesives
- Auto parts
- Boat manufacturing
- Building owner 鈥� lessors risk
- Cabinet manufacturing
- Chemicals
- Coatings
- Composites
- Corrugated box manufacturing
- Cosmetics
- Electroplating
- Equipment/assembly
- Fiberglass
- Foam, foam rubber
- Food additives
- Furniture manufacturing
- Heat treating
- Janitorial supplies
- Laminating
- Lubricants
- Machine shop
- Matches
- Mattress manufacturing
- Pesticides
- Plastic manufacturing 鈥� all types
- Printing
- Resins
- Rubber manufacturing 鈥� all types
- Shoe manufacturing
- Small arms manufacturing
- Solvents
- Sporting goods manufacturing
- Synthetic oil packaging
- Tire distribution
- Wood products
Acceptable appetite
- Candle manufacturing
- Explosives
- Fertilizer manufacturing
- Fireworks storage
- Food processing 鈥� spray drying
- Labs
- Paper products
- Pharmaceutical/nutraceuticals
- Re-capping 鈥� various
- Textiles 鈥� standard and impregnated
- Volatile/combustible metals
Unavailable
- Battery recycling
- Biodiesel
- Ethanol
- High non-sprinklered values of any occupancy
- Pallet manufacturing
- Petrochemicals
- Power generation
- Recycling
- Refineries
- Vacant buildings
- Wood particle board
- Wood pellet manufacturing
The HSIP offering was specially designed to be a reliable solution for businesses of all sizes with unique risk characteristics that require increased protection due to high fire loads or potentially volatile manufacturing processes.
Product offering
- Admitted policy written on Hanover/Verlan A-15 paper
- Non-admitted capabilities also available
- Typical capacity can be $25 to $75 million per location
- $10,000 minimum premium
- $5,000 minimum deductible
- No coinsurance (agreed amount) needed
Key coverage features
- Coverage for 鈥渁ll risks鈥� of direct physical loss or damage
- Property valued at replacement cost
- Finished goods manufactured by the insured valued at selling price
- Debris removal included as part of the building and personal property limit without a separate debris removal sublimit
- Separate pollution limit for cleanup
- Coverage for foundations, slabs and underground piping
- Business income form includes extra expense and rental value
- Earthquake sprinkler leakage provided as an additional covered peril within the policy limits at no additional cost
- Optional equipment breakdown offering includes microelectronics coverage
- Broadening endorsement that extends 14 coverages and adds 18 coverages
- Sublimits available
Policy flexibility
We can offer policies for both single and multiple locations and leverage our flexible array of coverages to customize a solution to meet the unique needs of each client. We can also offer monoline opportunities and split policies for multi-location schedules.
Plus, we're able to carve out properties written on a middle market policy to help maintain optimum pricing.
Target appetite
- Aerosols
- Adhesives
- Auto parts
- Boat manufacturing
- Building owner 鈥� lessors risk
- Cabinet manufacturing
- Chemicals
- Coatings
- Composites
- Corrugated box manufacturing
- Cosmetics
- Electroplating
- Equipment/assembly
- Fiberglass
- Foam, foam rubber
- Food additives
- Furniture manufacturing
- Heat treating
- Janitorial supplies
- Laminating
- Lubricants
- Machine shop
- Matches
- Mattress manufacturing
- Pesticides
- Plastic manufacturing 鈥� all types
- Printing
- Resins
- Rubber manufacturing 鈥� all types
- Shoe manufacturing
- Small arms manufacturing
- Solvents
- Sporting goods manufacturing
- Synthetic oil packaging
- Tire distribution
- Wood products
Acceptable appetite
- Candle manufacturing
- Explosives
- Fertilizer manufacturing
- Fireworks storage
- Food processing 鈥� spray drying
- Labs
- Paper products
- Pharmaceutical/nutraceuticals
- Re-capping 鈥� various
- Textiles 鈥� standard and impregnated
- Volatile/combustible metals
Unavailable
- Battery recycling
- Biodiesel
- Ethanol
- High non-sprinklered values of any occupancy
- Pallet manufacturing
- Petrochemicals
- Power generation
- Recycling
- Refineries
- Vacant buildings
- Wood particle board
- Wood pellet manufacturing
Contact our team to learn more.
Ken Szymanski
Executive Underwriter, Midwest
240-638-5725
[email protected]
Andrew Cohen
Underwriter, Pacific
240-638-5722
[email protected]
Angela Hickey
Sr. Underwriting Specialist, Northeast
508-855-7312
[email protected]