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Why It Matters
You have big dreams, and we have a passion for helping companies to manage their everyday risk, recover from unexpected events, and realize your goals. At Kapnick we think in years, not quarters, to help enhance your growth and development and secure your future.
What We Do
Kapnick serves up a comprehensive suite of insurance, risk management, and benefits solutions for manufacturers, whether you have a single location or multiple, domestic or international. From traditional metal-working/tool and die manufacturing to state-of-the-art, highly automated companies, we can help you make sense of ever-changing regulatory, environmental, and labor requirements unique to your industry and your business. Our experts’ specialized knowledge combined with our strong carrier relationships allows us to create specially designed insurance programs, no matter your niche.
Protecting the high-value assets of your industry requires a sophisticated and knowledgeable broker who can develop strategies to limit exposures and lower the costs of risks. Through various strategic partnerships, the Kapnick Manufacturing team assists each client in developing specific systems and procedures to manage your risks to mitigate loss and improve efficiencies. We do this through:
- Consultation – in depth evaluation of your organization’s programs and strategic goals
- Assessment – trending analysis and claim forecasting
- Development – validated experts, insurance carrier programs, and technology solutions
- Implementation – targeted employee communications and safety committee meetings
- Monitoring and Support – administrative support, claims advocacy, and continued educational opportunities
Who We Partner With
The Kapnick Manufacturing team wants to be more than just a vendor to our clients. We get to know you, your organization, and your people in order to better understand the specific risks you face and the benefits you value. We want to be your strategic partner and collaborator, sitting on the same side of the table with you to create long-term solutions.
Lists of Potential Coverage
We work closely with top carriers specializing in:
Corporate Risk
We not only provide risk management services and industry consultation, we focus on the hottest issues and trends in the industry:
Coverages
- Alternative risk (high deductible structured programs, captives, and risk-sharing pools)
- Environmental risks
- International risks and exposures
- Manufacturers errors and omissions
- Ocean and domestic cargo
- Product recall coverage
- Property and casualty insurance programs
- Stock throughput coverage
- Supply chain interruption
- Workers’ compensation
Services
- Claims advocacy and management
- Disaster management and loss prevention services
- Experience modification review and analysis
Employee Benefits
- Health and welfare services
- Healthcare analytics
- Human resource services (including an in-house call center for enrollment, FSA, COBRA, and benefits administration)
- Healthcare Reform consulting
- International benefit services
- Executive benefits
- Voluntary benefits
- Wellness initiatives
- Compliance insight
How can manufacturing insurance protect you?
Use the yellow hot spots and explore how manufacturing insurance can help protect against common risks.
Commercial General Liability Insurance
Risk Factor
The manufacturing business is unique and comes with many exposures, which can lead to a potential lawsuit. What if a fire breaks out and damages the building and halts production, causing you to default on your delivery contracts? Would your business survive?
Solution
Commercial general liability insurance is an absolute necessity for a manufacturing business. This type of protection provides broad coverage for premises, operations, completed operations and advertising, and personal injury. It will also pay to defend any covered lawsuit or action regardless of its merit. Coverage can be purchased as a separate policy and can be tailored to your specific needs.
Commercial Property Insurance
Risk Factor
When a gas tank explosion causes an uncontrollable fire, your commercial property and everything within it can suffer a significant loss. This can have a detrimental effect on your manufacturing business.
Solution
Commercial property insurance can help protect the property your business owns or leases, including things like equipment, inventory, furniture, and fixtures. Whether you own your building or lease your workspace, commercial property insurance can be purchased separately or can be combined with other necessary coverage to protect your business’ physical assets.
Business Interruption Insurance
Risk Factor
What would you do if a fire impacted the operation of your production line and prevented you from serving clients for a day or more? Or what if a pipe leak caused a system outage or extended downtime, leaving your production line inoperable? These and other events can destroy your ability to serve clients and bring in revenue, which can have a major long-term impact on the viability of your business.
Solution
Business interruption insurance compensates you for lost income if your manufacturing facility cannot operate as normal due to damage that is covered under your commercial property insurance policy, such as fire or water damage. Business interruption insurance covers the revenue you would have earned, based on your financial records, had the incident not occurred. The policy also covers operating expenses, like electricity, that continue even though business activities have come to a temporary halt.
Product Recall Insurance
Risk Factor
When a product you manufacture is found to be defective and causes bodily injury or property damage to others, you may be held financially liable. Product recalls can be involuntary (required by a regulatory agency or the government) or voluntary (the manufacturer notices a defect that is unlikely to force an involuntary recall), and can be costly.
Solution
Product recall insurance covers expenses associated with recalling a product from the market. Coverage can include customer notification costs, shipping costs, and disposal costs. Coverage generally applies to the manufacturing business itself, though additional coverage can be purchased to cover the costs of third parties.
Workers’ Compensation
Risk Factor
If one of your employees receives an injury or becomes ill due to a work-related occurrence, you are required by law to have the proper coverage in place.
Solution
Workers' compensation protects your employees should a job-related injury or sickness occur during the course of employment. This coverage is required by law and may vary by area, so be sure that you understand your obligations for all physical locations where your business operates in and all physical locations where you hire your employees.
Business Auto Insurance
Risk Factor
As a manufacturing business, you have many exposures associated with your business vehicles–owned or leased. With a fleet of cars, trucks, vans, or other types of vehicles used in the course of business, a single accident can potentially put your business in financial jeopardy.
Solution
Business auto insurance provides coverage for vehicles owned or leased by your manufacturing business and provides coverage for bodily injury, property damage, and other exposures, and could include comprehensive and collision coverage as well.
Commercial Umbrella / Excess Liability
Risk Factor
Losses and lawsuits are quite common in the manufacturing business, and settlements can be substantial. If your business is found to be responsible for damage or injury, you could be facing a large liability loss that exceeds the basic limits of your standard policy.
Solution
You should consider purchasing a commercial umbrella insurance policy which provides higher limits, typically between $2,000,000 and $10,000,000, and often broadened coverages. Coverage is extended over various policies, including general liability insurance, business auto, and directors and officers liability insurance.
Motor Truck and Ocean Cargo Insurance
Risk Factor
As a manufacturer, you’re constantly shipping your cargo around the world either by land, air, or sea, which exposes your business to risk as a result of product loss, theft, or damage.
Solution
You can purchase ocean marine insurance for your products while your shipments of goods are in transit, whether it's by truck, rail, air, ship, or boat, and until they reach their final destination.
“When we opened our first first wholly-owned international facility in Mexico, Kapnick Insurance and their Assurex Partners played a key role in securing our growth and assets.
Locating administrative vendors that offered a high degree of reliability and knowledge of both U.S. and Mexico law and issues was a challenge. However, Kapnick and its Mexican affiliate provided solid consultation. Their service and standards were unmatched by any other supplier during this experience.
We count on Kapnick to support innovation, both domestically and internationally. Their unique and creative solutions for our business ultimately allow us to be more competitive in our markets.”
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