Protection shaped around security companies
Specialist coverage planning for security guard firms, patrol operations, contracts, employees, vehicles, equipment, and allegations of negligent protection. Cox & Associates helps organize coverage around the way your operation actually works.
Risks to review
- Alleged negligent security, failure to protect, excessive force, detention, or civil-rights violations
- Employee injury, weapons, client premises, patrol vehicles, and third-party property damage
- Contractual liability, professional errors, cyber systems, crime, and high-severity incidents
Coverage to consider
- General and professional liability written for security operations
- Workers' compensation, commercial auto, property, crime, and cyber
- Umbrella or excess, EPLI, inland marine, and bonds where required
Operations we help evaluateGuidance for distinct security companies operations
Different business models create different property, liability, people, vehicle, product, and income exposures. Choose the operation closest to yours for a focused starting point.
Armed Security Guard Insurance
Specialist insurance planning for armed guards, weapons, use of force, high-severity assignments, employees, contracts, vehicles, and incident response.
Explore this operation →Unarmed Security Guard Insurance
Coverage planning for access control, observation, loss prevention, concierge security, patrol, incident response, and contractual duties.
Explore this operation →Mobile Patrol Security Insurance
Insurance planning for patrol fleets, drivers, routes, client checks, alarm response, equipment, and round-the-clock field operations.
Explore this operation →Event Security Company Insurance
Coverage planning for concerts, festivals, sports, nightlife, private events, crowds, alcohol, temporary posts, subcontractors, and severe incidents.
Explore this operation →Executive Protection Insurance
Specialized planning for protective details, travel, high-profile clients, vehicles, advance work, confidentiality, firearms, and professional judgment.
Explore this operation →Security Monitoring & Alarm Response Insurance
Coverage planning for monitoring, dispatch, alarm response, communications, technology, contracts, cyber exposure, and alleged failure of security services.
Explore this operation → Coverage by industryExplore security companies coverage priorities
Commercial Property
Property insurance planning connects physical assets, current replacement costs, income, and a realistic recovery timeline.
View the industry guide →General Liability
General liability planning starts with how customers, vendors, tenants, and the public interact with the operation.
View the industry guide →Workers' Compensation
Workers’ compensation planning should reflect actual duties, payroll, locations, supervision, and workplace controls.
View the industry guide →Commercial Auto
Commercial auto planning matches vehicles, drivers, use, radius, and contracts to the business’s real road exposure.
View the industry guide →Commercial Umbrella & Excess Liability Insurance
Umbrella and excess planning tests whether underlying liability limits are adequate for a severe claim or contractual obligation.
View the industry guide →Commercial Flood
Flood planning evaluates building, contents, elevation, prior loss, financing requirements, and available FEMA, private, or excess options.
View the industry guide →Cyber Liability
Cyber insurance planning connects an operation's data, systems, vendors, money movement, and interruption exposure to incident-response and liability protection.
View the industry guide → Industry decision libraryPrepare for every stage of the security companies insurance review
Use these focused guides to organize a submission, review cost drivers, prepare for renewal and claims, strengthen controls, and connect contracts to coverage.
Insurance Basics
Start with the operation, people, property, vehicles, services, and income that make this industry distinct.
Open this guide →Insurance Cost Factors
Understand the business details that can influence appetite, pricing, deductibles, limits, and market selection.
Open this guide →Quote Preparation Checklist
Prepare a clear operating narrative, accurate schedules, current values, and useful loss information.
Open this guide →Renewal Checklist
Update the insurance program for changes in operations, locations, people, property, vehicles, contracts, and revenue.
Open this guide →Loss-Control Priorities
Focus attention on preventable incidents, high-severity scenarios, documentation, training, and accountability.
Open this guide →Claims Readiness
Define how the business will protect people, report a loss, preserve information, and continue critical operations.
Open this guide →Contracts and Certificates
Connect leases, customer agreements, vendor contracts, and certificate requests to the insurance program.
Open this guide →Common Coverage Gaps
Look for exposures that fall between property, liability, auto, workers compensation, cyber, and specialty policies.
Open this guide → Risk-management playbooksPrepare, prevent, and recover
Insurance Submission Planning
Organize the operational, financial, property, and loss information an underwriter needs to understand the account.
Open the playbook →Loss-Control Priorities
Focus on practical controls that can reduce claim frequency, severity, and preventable disruption.
Open the playbook →Business-Continuity Planning
Map the people, property, equipment, suppliers, and revenue dependencies needed to recover after a loss.
Open the playbook →A commercial conversation first
Policy terms, limits, exclusions, eligibility, and availability vary. A focused review helps determine which protections fit the operation and which quote path makes sense.