Crime & Fidelity

Crime & Fidelity

Crime & Fidelity

Learn what Crime & Fidelity protects and why your business needs it. Ready for a quote? We'll help you understand your coverage options quickly and simply.

Learn what Crime & Fidelity protects and why your business needs it. Ready for a quote? We'll help you understand your coverage options quickly and simply.

Learn what Crime & Fidelity protects and why your business needs it. Ready for a quote? We'll help you understand your coverage options quickly and simply.

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What Is Crime & Fidelity?

Crime & Fidelity insurance helps cover financial losses caused by theft, fraud, or dishonesty. It’s designed to protect your business when money, securities, or property are taken through employee actions or outside criminal activity.

What Does Crime & Fidelity Cover?

It can cover employee theft, forgery, funds transfer fraud, and certain third-party theft losses. Coverage may include stolen cash, altered checks, and direct financial loss from covered crime events.

Employee steals company funds

A trusted employee manipulates refunds and skims deposits over several months. Crime coverage can help reimburse the direct loss once the theft is discovered and documented.
A trusted employee manipulates refunds and skims deposits over several months. Crime coverage can help reimburse the direct loss once the theft is discovered and documented.

Check fraud and forged endorsements

Someone intercepts a vendor payment, forges the endorsement, and cashes it. Crime & Fidelity may respond to covered forgery or alteration losses tied to your business accounts.
Someone intercepts a vendor payment, forges the endorsement, and cashes it. Crime & Fidelity may respond to covered forgery or alteration losses tied to your business accounts.

Social engineering leads to a wire loss

Your bookkeeper receives a convincing email that appears to be from the owner and wires money to a fake account. With the right endorsement, the policy may help cover the transferred funds.
Your bookkeeper receives a convincing email that appears to be from the owner and wires money to a fake account. With the right endorsement, the policy may help cover the transferred funds.

Key Features of Crime & Fidelity

Protection for internal and external crime

Policies can be structured to address employee dishonesty as well as common outside threats like robbery, burglary, and certain types of fraud.

Options tailored to how you move money

If your business relies on ACH, wire transfers, or high check volume, you can often add coverage that matches your payment workflows and approval controls.

Coverage can extend to client property in your care

For certain industries, fidelity coverage may be written to protect against employee theft of customer property or funds you’re responsible for, subject to the policy form and limits.

Crime & Fidelity Made Simple

Everything you need to know about this coverage, from basic definitions to real-world application scenarios.

Is Crime & Fidelity the same as a fidelity bond?

They are closely related. Many people use the terms interchangeably, but a fidelity bond is often a specific type of coverage focused on employee dishonesty, sometimes required by a contract or regulator. Crime insurance can be broader and may include additional coverages like forgery, computer fraud, and funds transfer fraud.

Does general liability cover employee theft or fraud?

What’s the difference between employee dishonesty, computer fraud, and social engineering?

What kinds of proof do insurers usually need for a crime claim?

Are losses from cybercrime covered under Crime & Fidelity or cyber insurance?

How do limits and deductibles typically work for this coverage?

Is Crime & Fidelity the same as a fidelity bond?

They are closely related. Many people use the terms interchangeably, but a fidelity bond is often a specific type of coverage focused on employee dishonesty, sometimes required by a contract or regulator. Crime insurance can be broader and may include additional coverages like forgery, computer fraud, and funds transfer fraud.

Does general liability cover employee theft or fraud?

What’s the difference between employee dishonesty, computer fraud, and social engineering?

What kinds of proof do insurers usually need for a crime claim?

Are losses from cybercrime covered under Crime & Fidelity or cyber insurance?

How do limits and deductibles typically work for this coverage?

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Insurance solutions built exclusively for businesses, boards, and communities.

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