Find the right life science insurance for your business
Chubb’s state of the art, interactive clinical trial insurance and certificate management system, WORLDcert, has been designed to make securing coverage more user-friendly and efficient. WORLDcert provides details of clinical trial insurance requirements worldwide, and relays important insurance information, enables issuance of clinical trial insurance quotes and certificates… in most cases, instantly. WORLDcert, gives unprecedented control over the certificate and insurance management process.
These are companies that develop products to prevent, diagnose, treat or cure disease in humans or animals, and the service organisations that facilitate this activity. The products are defined as medical devices and pharmaceuticals, and also laboratory equipment that’s used in the development of Life Science products.
If they’re manufactured under GMP, nutraceuticals are included in our appetite – ie products taken by mouth that contain a ‘dietary ingredient’ intended to supplement the diet, herbals and botanicals, vitamins and medical food. However, we don’t actively pursue animal health products designed to increase production or weight (including dietary supplements).
This is protection for interruption to money spent on creative work undertaken on a systematic basis – to increase the stock of knowledge and use this knowledge to devise new applications – following material damage to property insured. Our policy can provide cover for money spent on the research and development of new products and projects, as well as R&D income and costs that a business is committed to pay.
Contractually the insured may be liable for the financial injury to third parties due to a defect, error or omission in their product or service; this is provided under our professional indemnity section. There is clarity of cover under our policy, as products liability covers bodily injury and property damage for both products and services, and professional indemnity covers financial injury to the insured’s clients – again, arising out of services as well as products.
Products liability is for approved products; clinical trials insurance provides not only legal liability but also no-fault compensation to all participants involved in clinical trials, to ensure they’re protected in line with local regulations. Often there’s a legal requirement to cover trials locally in the countries where they’re being conducted, and we can provide cover in many territories to ensure research subjects are adequately protected and compensated.