
Steel & Metal Products
Steel and metal producers run boilers and heavy equipment, ship products and sell on credit.
Coverage to consider
The main areas to review are breakdown, pollution, cargo, unpaid invoices, and product liability and recall.
- Boiler and machinery
- Can pay for damage and lost production when a boiler or machine used in manufacturing suddenly breaks down.
- Can include equipment malfunction, damage to property, business interruption and added expenses
- Environmental liability
- Typically covers remediation of soil or water contaminated by operations, and liability to third parties harmed by the pollution.
- Can include pollution releases, remediation and cleanup, claims by third parties and defense of claims
- Product liability
- Generally responds to claims that a steel or metal product failed, injuring someone or damaging property through a defect or inadequate instructions.
- Can include injury to people, damage to property and product defects
- Cargo
- May reimburse losses to metal products damaged, stolen or mishandled while moving by land, sea or air.
- Can include transit loss or damage, all-risk or named-peril basis, cross-border shipments and delays and contaminated loads
- Trade credit
- Can help replace income lost when a buyer of metal products fails to pay, becomes insolvent or pays long past terms.
- Can include unpaid customer invoices, buyer insolvency, prolonged default and political events
- Product recall
- Often funds the retrieval, storage and replacement of metal products withdrawn as defective or noncompliant, along with lost income.
- Can include cost of recall, business interruption, cost of replacements and crisis response
These guides describe types of insurance in general. The right coverage depends on your operations and the terms of the policy issued. Pasaca’s featured lines are cyber insurance, directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance, product liability insurance and aviation insurance.
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Plants, machinery and shipments sit at the center of industrial risk, alongside product claims, pollution and customers who pay late or not at all.
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