By Robert J. Connor, JD, CIC
Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, Berkley Alliance Managers, a Berkley Company
June 10, 2021
You receive a call from your design firm client asking for higher limits for their professional liability insurance policy. And you think…will their current carrier provide the Excess limits? If yes, has the firm reached its limit on the number of Excess endorsements on their policy? If no, what do you do?
For either of those questions, Berkley Design Professional has your answer – BDP Excess. We have an admitted, follow-form Excess Professional Liability policy that can be written over a competitor’s entire policy, on a specific client basis or on a specific job basis. We offer limits up to $10 million. In addition, BDP Excess is available to each of our brokers in all states. How is that for flexibility?
At Berkley Design Professional, we recognize that when your clients call with an Excess request, you need to be able to respond quickly to meet their needs. Otherwise, they may start looking for another broker. As a former broker myself, I can relate to that scenario as it happened to me. I lost a considerable account because the incumbent professional liability insurance carrier would not provide a specific-job excess quote and I could not find a viable, cost-effective alternative in sufficient time to meet my client’s needs.
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