Call your claims specialist on the number specified in your pre-agreed claims and casualty handling procedures. They will ensure any necessary experts are appointed and your rights are preserved.

Your broker can provide details of loss of hire, delay and other marine business interruption products that respond to vessel damage and non- damage triggers, and help you decide what is most suitable for you.

See if your broker can ensure that any liabilities arising from such contracts are covered by your P&I insurers, or if they can arrange additional cover where that is not possible.

Your broker can explain the agreement, how it affects you, and what strategies you can adopt to mitigate its impact.

Your broker can assess your premium rating, using our unique P&I price modelling tool, to assess your pricing independently, and outline strategies for achieving any improvement their analysis suggests you deserve.

Your broker should provide a thorough analysis of your hull and machinery conditions, measuring them against the latest market benchmarks, and ‘stress-testing’ against real claims scenarios.

YIf the data was stolen as a result of a security breach, a standard cyber insurance policy should respond to any incident response costs, as well as any resulting liability. The nature of the data will have an impact on the size of the claim, notification costs and possible liability, but it shouldn’t have an impact on whether or not the policy responds.

In addition to traditional vessel types, we have experience of all types of marine risks, from highly sophisticated offshore support vessels, to floating storage and processing vessels (FSO and FPSO) and emerging LNG (FLNG) technology, power and desalination barges or ships, and other waterborne industrial processes.

You demand personalised solutions. Our strength begins with our technical team, which has extensive experience of tailoring bespoke client wordings. Some all-risks forms give our clients what they need with minimal alteration, others we adapt to our clients’ specific requirements. Our objective is to provide you with cover that is bespoke to your individual needs.

We place some of the biggest and most complex war programmes in the world. Many of our programme designs are unique to JLT clients. We have become the leading insurance advisors to the industry in dealing with the issues arising out of piracy and providing protection against the exposures involved.

We retain the services of a security advisor to assist our clients and our own team in keeping up to date with security issues. This resource provides real time intelligence which helps our clients maintain a competitive edge.

We have an outstanding track record of adding value to relationships with P&I insurers, whether International Group clubs or commercial market fixed premium P&I insurers. We take pride in the trust placed in us by some of the world’s leading ship owners and operators. Our approach is firmly tripartite, reflecting the mutual ethos that underpins much of the P&I world, but always with an emphasis on results.

With lawyers and former P&I club underwriters and claims handlers in our team, you also benefit from our expertise in other specialist areas of P&I risk, including contractual liabilities for the offshore industry, specialist operations, charterers’ liability and freight, demurrage and defence cover.

Our clients purchase a range of loss of hire and other marine business interruption products, from those responding purely to physical loss or damage to the vessel, to products offering extended perils, including protecting against events occurring ashore which cause our client’s vessels to be delayed. These coverages can be tailored to cover the differing interests of owners, charterers, managers and financiers.

Each shipyard operation is unique. We have extensive experience of placing creative builders’ all risks and ship repairers’ liability programmes, along with the interrelated specialist covers required by shipyards.

We closely analyse a shipyards anticipated exposed amounts and contractual obligations to structure programmes which are not just fit for purpose but are also the most cost effective and adjustable.

Port and terminal exposures present a combination of asset, liability, and financial exposures, often involving markets whose insuring conditions may vary. Programmes for our multinational and global clients also need to cater for the individual insurance requirements, risk profile and statutory obligations of each individual operation. Our approach is designed to provide you with seamless protection.

There are various exposures in the maritime industry not directly related to the principal activities of navigating ships and carrying cargo and people. These exposures are often financial in nature and may include loss of revenue, or the legitimate cancellation of a valuable charter due to a range of force majeure or political perils. Our team deals with all aspects of protecting shipping and banking clients from political and force majeure events.

We have been at the forefront of developing coverage for this class of business and have created various facilities for yachts with values exceeding USD 10 million. Our bespoke insurance packages cover risks including hull and machinery, war risks and protection and indemnity insurance.

We tailor our flexible policies to the individual needs of each of our clients.

Our service excellence model is aligned with the demands of owners which has attracted in excess of 150 superyachts to use JLT.