E&S Commercial Auto insurance

Expert solutions for distressed risks

When you have unique commercial auto risks that the standard marketplace won't cover, you can trust our team to work with you to find a tailored solution.

Our E&S commercial auto and trucking program targets businesses with distressed risk characteristics. Our specialized team of experts partner with select qualified wholesalers who have a dedicated focus on trucking and transportation with a high level of expertise,  deal flow, and partnership value. 

Key features

  • Non-admitted paper written through an "A-"  A.M. Best rated carrier
  • Focus on trucking and transportation risks for local, intermediate, and long-haul exposures
  • Specializing in risks with distressed characteristics which standard markets are declining
  • Ability to consider distressed risks and challenging trucking classes
  • Fleet sizes ranging from single-unit, to 1-10 unit non-fleet risks, and fleets up to 25 power units
  • In-house claims handling featuring a dedicated transportation claims team
  • Writing primary AL up to $1m CSL, along with PD, MTC, and truckers GL coverages ($1m/2m)

A- rated paper

Available in California and Texas

Target classes

  • For-hire general commodity trucking

  • Local, intermediate, and long haul trucking

  • Cargo coverage - including dry van, reefer, flatbed and consumer goods

  • Box trucks, sprinter vans

  • UIIA risks

  • Small and large fleets

  • Moving companies - local and interstate

  • Auto haulers

  • Hotshots - excluding hotshot auto haulers

  • Expeditor trucking risks

  • Dump trucks and dump tractors - dirt, sand, gravel

  • Agriculture - bulk commodities, livestock, hay, produce, etc.

  • Monoline commercial auto

  • Owners goods trucking exposures

  • Wholesale distributors

Distressed risk characteristics

  • Younger/older drivers
  • Challenging MVRs
  • Newer CDLs
  • Distressed CAB scores
  • Distressed loss history
  • New ventures
  • Midterm, cancellation and lapse situations
Truck driving down highway

Excluded risks

  • Hazmat exposures
  • Frac sand and other oilfield exposures
  • Tow trucks
  • Logging
  • Garage exposures - including dealers, service, rental exposures 
  • International CDLs and B-1 exposures
  • Brokerage authority, freight forwarders, sub-hauling exposures
  • Public livery

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Contact the expert

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    Jeff Hankins

    Executive Vice President, Commercial Auto