Focus Areas

Who it's for

Highlights and Features

Customisable coverage

With Chubb’s Premier Life Science, you can protect your operations with broad, global insurance that can be customised to meet the needs of your business.  

  • Satisfy the contractual insurance requirements of your customers and suppliers.

  • Provide legal defence of your customers, vendors or others if, prior to a loss, you assumed such responsibility in a written contract in connection with your business.

  • Enhance coverage for first and third party digital risks with our optional Cyber Coverage Module.

Business activities we've insured
  • Generic Pharmaceutical manufacturing
  • Biologic drug and vaccine manufacturing
  • Dietary supplement and herbal remedy manufacturing
  • Clinical decision support software
  • MRI manufacturing
  • Medical product wholesale distribution 
  • Genetic testing labs
  • Contract research services (pre-clinical and clinical)
  • Research Institutes

Key Coverage Benefits

Broadform Liability and Clinical Trials Liability
  • Broadform liability: Public liability and products and services liability coverage for third party property damage and bodily injury, including personal injury.
  • Clinical trials liability: Coverage for injury to participants in clinical trials conducted to validate the safety and efficacy of your medical products.
  • Extended liability for claims-made coverage: Ensures certainty of coverage for future claims correlated to circumstances reported to us or to claims made against you during the policy period.
  • Extensions: Product recall, bodily injury or property damage arising from cyber events, healthcare services liability, medical monitoring expenses, property in your care, custody and control, and crisis response expenses.
Products and Services Professional Indemnity
  • Product or service performance failure liability: Provides financial loss protection, including cover for performance-based contractual liability.
  • Network security liability: Coverage for financial loss to third parties whose computer systems are hacked or compromised due to an actual or suspected defect in your product or service.
  • Intellectual property and media liability: Protection for damages sustained by a third party resulting from actual or suspected trademark, copyright and other intellectual property infringements or disclosure of confidential client information.
  • Extensions: The return of amounts paid for your products or your services, legal costs for regulatory inquiries, and expenses incurred to mitigate an actual or potential claim against you from a customer.
Cyber
  • First party cyber incidents: Coverage for business interruption, data recovery costs and extortion negotiation, including privacy notification expenses, forensic expenses, remediation and crisis management expenses, and investigation and defence of regulatory actions. Clients will be supported by Chubb’s Cyber Incident Response team, designed to help mitigate and resolve cyber events.
  • Privacy and network security liability arising from a cyber incident: Complements the cover provided under Products and Services Professional Indemnity, ensuring comprehensive coverage for risks related to the disclosure of confidential client information.
  • Extensions: Emergency incident response, cybercrime, betterment costs, telecommunications fraud and reward expenses.
Cyber and Data Security Risk Services

Chubb's Cyber team is dedicated to helping you prevent and prepare for incidents, ensuring you are well-equipped to navigate complex regulatory and legal challenges that can arise from a data privacy breach.

Why Chubb?

We are specialists in casualty insurance for life sciences companies – and we care about your business.

FAQs

These are companies that develop products to prevent, diagnose, treat or cure disease in humans or animals, and the service organisations that facilitate these activities. Life sciences products are defined as medical devices and pharmaceuticals, as well as laboratory equipment that’s used in the development of life sciences products.

If they are manufactured under Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), nutraceuticals are included in our appetite, i.e. products taken by mouth that contain a ‘dietary ingredient’ intended to supplement the diet, herbals and botanicals, vitamins and/or medical food. However, we do not actively pursue animal health products designed to increase production or weight (including dietary supplements for animals).  

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.

The insured may be contractually liable for financial injury to third parties due to a defect, error or omission in their product or service; cover for 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 insurance only applies for approved products; whereas clinical trials insurance provides not only legal liability, but also no-fault compensation to all participants involved in clinical trials to ensure they are protected in line with local regulations. In many countries, it is a legal requirement to cover trials locally where they are conducted, and our global reach means research subjects can be adequately protected and compensated in the territories you select for your trial sites.

Interested in this Chubb policy?

Have a question or need more information? Contact us to find out how we can help you get covered against potential risks.