Products
We at TIB offer a wide variety of insurance products to a very diverse range of corporate clients. Whether you are an individual contractor, small or medium business, or a professional service provider, we have the right insurance product and service that meets your needs.
The following list highlights the most common insurance lines offered along with a brief definition of cover. We hope you find this information useful, recommending to contact our technical team should you have further inquiries.
Company Assets
-
Fire and Allied Perils Insurance:
Businesses are prone to unforeseen losses. Such losses can lead a flourishing business into disaster due to loss of property and other assets, ultimately wiping out the capital and causing consequential losses. Monetary relief is essential in re-building / restoring the damaged property. Fire insurance cover plays a vital role in safeguarding the financial interests of an enterprise...
Open or Close
The standard Fire Policy provides indemnity in the event of a loss resulting from damage to the insured property such as buildings, machinery and equipment, inventory, furniture and fixtures, appliances, personal effects and other fixed properties as a consequence of fire and lightning. This may be extended to include the additional perils such as storm, earthquake, falling aircraft and objects, riot and civil commotion, explosion, water damage, impact and sprinkler leakage.
There are two categories of cover under this product in which one can insure the assets.
• The basic being the cover against the losses &/or damages due to Fire and lightning only. ( Standard Fire policy)
• The additional cover is against losses &/or damages due to Fire, lightning and Allied Perils such as earthquake, storms, floods, damage by air craft, and impact by vehicles.
This policy also covers Burglary/Theft and provides indemnity for loss or damage to insured property due to illegal removal or taking away by any person or persons making unlawful entry or exit from the premises, by actual use of force or violence.
-
Property All Risks Insurance:
Whether fire, explosion, hurricane, theft or other mishaps: the list of perils that threaten your property is long. Without proper protection one strike may be enough to ruin your business and destroy efforts of months or years. Better not leave the future of your organization vulnerable to the hazards. With Property Insurance you will be on the safe side when receiving adequate indemnity for your loss.
Open or Close
Property is a broader and more comprehensive coverage of the Fire and Allied Perils Policy, and indemnifies against the accidental physical loss or damage to the Property Insured described in the policy. This Policy is set out to cover an "all risks" of loss or damage other than those specifically excluded.
Such policy includes loss or damage due to fire, lightning, aircraft, explosion, earthquake, strike, riot, civil commotion, malicious damage, storm, tempest, flood, bursting and or overflowing of water tanks, pipes and apparatus (including sprinkler leakage), impact by own vehicles, theft or attempted theft (by violent and forcible entry to or exit from the premises) and accidental loss or damage.
Under both Property All Risks and Fire and Allied Perils, additional clauses can be added to expand cover, and are determined via insurance advisor after proper risk assessment.
-
Machinery Breakdown Insurance:
Machinery and Equipment used in various industrial operations are exposed to unforeseen or sudden mechanical or electrical damage, which can result in significant losses to your business.
Machines are an integral part of all manufacturing and industrial units engaged in production of industrial/household goods.
...
Open or Close
These may be large industrial establishments or small to medium size enterprises, and any unexpected accident/breakdown to their critical machinery brings it to a standstill adversely affecting business and causing a financial strain towards repair or replacement of the affected machinery.
The policy covers plant and machinery in a factory against any unforeseen and sudden physical loss or damage that necessitates repair or replacement from any cause other than those specifically excluded in the policy. Such causes include electrical or mechanical breakdown, such as defects in casting and material, faulty design, bad workmanship, physical explosion, tearing apart on account of centrifugal force, short circuit, vibration, mal-adjustment, misalignment etc.
-
Contractor's Plant and Equipment (CPM):
Various types of construction plants, machinery and equipment are used in the construction or erection on projects site. These plants, equipment, and machinery are exposed to a number of risks in addition to the exposure to natural calamities. Construction Plant and Equipment often constitute a considerable part of a contractor's investment. ...
Open or Close
Moreover, heavy duty and movable machinery often operate in hostile terrain, exposed to extremes of weather and natural perils, also exposed to a number of other hazards depending upon the nature of construction, erection work or usage. Hence, covering such assets is invaluable. CPM policy benefits are:
• It covers various types of machinery, plant and equipment, both electrical and mechanical against unforeseen or sudden physical damage of the insured machinery due to any cause not excluded.
• There is an option to cover only selected machinery under the policy.
• It provides coverage for machinery at various locations by specifically mentioning the equipments at each location.
• The Policy can be taken by the owner, contractor or by the financiers of the machinery
This policy covers heavy equipment used in construction and industrial operations (including other types of operations such as farming and quarrying) against unforeseen and sudden physical damage due to external causes. It includes equipment such as cranes, tractors, bulldozers, stationary equipment like compressors and generators, pay loaders and other mobile equipment that do not require government or land transportation registration. The policy can also be extended to cover third party liability.
-
Electronic Equipment Insurance:
Businesses today are completely dependent on electronic data and electronic equipment like Laptops, Desktops, Servers, Diagnostic Equipments, Personal Data Assistants (PDA), etc. Any loss or damage to such electronic equipment will severely impact the day to day operation and subsequently the business...
Open or Close
Electronic Equipment Insurance Policy provides comprehensive coverage against unforeseen and sudden physical loss or damage to electronic equipment and data media that occurs owing to perils other than those specifically excluded under the policy.
This policy covers the cost of repairing or replacing the insured’s electronic and ancillary items following loss or damage from any cause, while at work, or being dismantled for the purpose of cleaning, overhauling or being shifted within the premises, or in the course of the aforesaid operations, or during subsequent erection after commissioning subject to certain exclusions. This type of insurance is ideal for laptops, PDAs and other electronic equipment which represent high value risks that are concentrated to small spaces.
-
Deterioration of Stock Insurance:
Wherever there is storage of goods in a refrigerated\temperature controlled environment there is the risk of damage from a variety of causes. For example, there may be a failure in the power supply, impact damage caused by a forklift or simply a breakdown. This could result in a rise or fall in temperature resulting in damages to stock...
Open or Close
Similar to the Loss of Profits following a Machinery Breakdown, this policy is issued in conjunction with the Machinery Breakdown Insurance. Moreover, cover may be extended to include deterioration due to failure of the public power supply.
This insurance is suitable to the following:
• Owners of cold-storage houses
• Users of cold storage houses
• Firms in which agricultural products are manufactured or processed
• Meat and fish processing industries
• Chemical and pharmaceutical industries
Business Interruption
-
Loss of Profit Following Machinery Breakdown:
Usually the worst thing about machinery breakdown is not the loss of the machine itself, but the loss an enterprise will suffer as a consequence from such an event: revenues vaporize, whereas fixed costs such as salaries, wages or rental fees keep on running. Without sufficient resources already, a short interruption of only few days can ruin an organization and destroy efforts of months or even years....
Open or Close
The policy will indemnify for the loss of profits resulting from the interruption of production or business operations due to loss or damage to machinery, plant or equipment covered under the Machinery Breakdown Policy, including:
• Gross profit
• Salaries and wages
• Audit and other fees
It is important to remember that such policy only covers the loss due to machinery breakdown, but not the loss of your machinery itself. If you wish to cover the loss of your machinery, you may also purchase Machinery Breakdown Insurance.
-
Business Interruption Following Fire or Property Damage:
Equally imperative as fire insurance, business interruption following fire and other perils can be of vital importance to your company.
Many businesses focus on the possibility of damage to their stock and machinery, and neglect the consequential loss caused by damage to their production facilities, which temporarily paralyze their business production...
Open or Close
Because these risks are so closely linked, business interruption insurance cannot be purchased as a separate policy, but only as an addition to the fire or property policy of your company.
Transit Risks
-
Marine Cargo Insurance:
Business today knows no boundaries. The most valuable goods are traded and shipped across national borders in large volumes every day. However, as your goods go for more distanced and destinations, the risks of loss also increase...
Open or Close
This policy insures against risks associated with navigation and transportation to which a cargo may be lost or damaged during the transit whether by sea, air or land. Insurers also provide cover for transport of goods by trucks or railways
Cover may be provided for individual shipments or under an ongoing contract known as an "open policy". An open policy is a contract prepared in general terms covering specified goods on terms agreed and can be issued to cover goods shipped anywhere in the world on a declaration basis.
-
Land Transit Insurance:
Similar to Marine Cargo, on the road your goods are exposed to loss due to traffic accidents, derailment, natural hazards, robbery, and theft. Fortunately, through this policy, many of these risks can be transferred to insurance companies. Naturally, under Land Transit Insurance, loss of or damage to the goods insured due to theft is not covered if the goods or the carrying vehicle is left unattended. However, an extension under such policy can include such risk.
Road Risks
-
Motor Insurance:
Motor insurance is designed to cover the insured’s vehicle loss and Third Party Property and\or Third Party Bodily Injury\Death caused by road traffic accident. It is one of the compulsory insurances lines in Saudi Arabia...
Open or Close
There are two types of motor schemes; first is the Saudi Government imposed “Third Party Liability� cover, providing protection against third party claims including bodily injuries and/or property damage. The second type is the “Comprehensive Motor Policy�, providing Third Party Liability claims coverage as well as own vehicle damage. The Comprehensive policy allows the insured to choose the repair facility (agency or non agency repair) and offers additional benefits to purchase, such as Personal Accident Benefits, Convulsions of Nature, and Car Replacement\Rental Facility.
Premium rates depends on fleet size, use, type of fleet, excess\deductible, loss history, and repair facility, as vehicles covered under comprehensive insurance can be either repaired at certified non-agency workshops or at agency workshops.
Employee Benefits
-
Health Insurance
Health Insurance is no longer considered a "fringe" benefit. Most employees have come to expect full benefits as part of their overall compensation package, and you need to offer good Health Insurance plans and some ancillary coverage like Dental, Disability, and Life Insurance to help you attract and retain top-notch workers...
Open or Close
In Saudi Arabia Health Insurance is considered a compulsory cover, mandated for all private sector workforce and their dependents. A unified policy is imposed on all insurers by the Council of Cooperative Health Insurance (CCHI), where the policy provides cover for most outpatient services, including lab, x- ray, physiotherapy, and medications. Inpatient admissions and day case procedures, dental, optical, and maternity benefits are also included. Some health insurance companies’ policies offer extended cover at medical facilities in other countries. Hence, giving peace of mind to employees and their dependents while on holiday or business trips.
When it comes to health insurance premiums, insurance companies consider several factors such as (without prejudice) group size, average age, loss history, gender, nationality, geographical distribution, business type, major preexisting cases, etc.
Life Insurance:
Life insurance can provide years of income to your loved ones in an affordable way. In the event of your passing, life insurance is a guaranteed* promise to pay money directly to your beneficiaries. In addition to covering your family's daily expenses, life insurance can help your beneficiaries:
• Maintain their standard of living
• Pay off any household debt
• Secure your children's education
• Supplement retirement savings
Life insurance essentially comes in two types: Term Life Insurance and Permanent Life Insurance.
If you want life insurance for a set period of time — long enough to meet your anticipated responsibilities to those who depend on you — Term Life Insurance may be right for you.
If you are looking for flexibility and lifetime coverage, Permanent Life Insurance would make sense. Permanent Life Insurance also offers access to a cash value component which can be put to good use during your lifetime.
Some insurance companies in the kingdom sell Protection and Saving Insurance which is an Islamic version of conventional life insurance, such as a Takaful retirement plan.
Some of the benefits provided by Takaful retirement plan are:
Option one:
One maturity, the value of the investment account becomes totally available to insured. He may wish to leave funds invested with insurer and thus provide himself and family with an income to draw upon throughout your retirement, or he may withdraw all or part of these funds. The choice is entirely the insured’s.
Option two:
In the event of death during the term of the plan, insured legal beneficiaries will receive the proceeds of the funds in his investment account, equal to the level of protection chosen within his plan, to enable insured to maintain his standard of lifestyle.
Other benefits:
• A range of payment modes is available
• Various options such as "contribution holidays" and non-forfeiture options may be elected by you.
-
Personal Accident Insurance:
This type of insurance provides benefits to the insured person or group of persons in the event of an accident resulting in injury or death or permanent total and partial disability. This policy may also be extended to cover emergency medical expenses incurred due to an accident. Insurance companies can accommodate the indemnity limit requested by insured...
Open or Close
This policy for not include liability for any consequences arising from:
• Intentional act
• Dangerous activity carried out by the insured
• Nuclear explosion, nuclear radiation, and nuclear pollution
• War, military action, riot, civil commotion, strike, and terrorists activity
• Others
-
Workmen's Compensation Insurance:
Workers in any organization are exposed to work related accidents. You do everything you can to keep your employees safe on the job. Still, an accident can happen when you least expect it. Just one injury can sideline an employee for months, leading to serious financial hardship. Since fault does not matter when it comes to workplace injuries, you may be responsible for an employee injured on the job. Fortunately there is a way to protect your business from a lawsuit and your employees from loss of income...
Open or Close
This policy covers liabilities of employers to pay specified compensation to any of its employees as imposed under the labor law who become incapacitated or unable to work due to a work related accident or sickness. Below you will find other benefits of workmen’s compensation insurance.
• It covers Medical expenses up to a certain limit (agreed between the two parties).
• It covers expenses of repatriation for the body following work accident up to a Certain limit (agreed between the two parties).
• It covers Employer's Liability up to a certain limit in one accident or in the aggregate. (Employer's Liability is the liability arising of accidents to employees due to employer’s negligence. Ex. Accident for the employee while he is working on a machine due to lack of maintenance from the employers side to that machine).
Liability Risks
-
Medical Malpractice Insurance
Professionals in the medical field are exposed to huge responsibility that comes with the job. The slightest error could have significant consequences on their professional reputation, personal assets and career. Even the most competent professional can make a mistake, hence should get protection against such possibility. Even Professionals who make no mistakes can be sued...
Open or Close
The Medical Malpractice Insurance covers professionals in the medical field including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, laboratory technicians and other healthcare professionals against legal liability for bodily injury to any patient due to error or negligence while engaged in the practice of their profession. Cover can be extended to include legal defense fees.
-
Public Liability Insurance:
If you or one of your employees inflicts a loss to a third party, you will normally be held liable for any results. And if the loss is not only property damage, but bodily injury or even death, the problems you will have to face then can easily turn out very serious. Better not count on luck in these times: Insure your business with Public Liability insurance...
Open or Close
This policy provides protection to the insured for claims made by third parties for bodily injury or damage to property for which the insured is legally liable and arising out of and in connection with the insured’s business.
-
Product Liability:
To remain competitive, most businesses will make sure that the products they manufacture or sell are safe. Unfortunately, it still happens very often that faulty or defective products damage third party's property, or even cause bodily injury or death...
Open or Close
In this case you will become legally liable to pay a compensation that in the worst case can bankrupt your business.
The insurance covers all sums, which the insured shall become legally liable to pay as compensation for accidental bodily injury to and/or property damage of any third party arising out of the use of the insured product.
-
Contractor's All Risks Insurance:
When it comes to any construction project, a comparatively small glitch such as a short circuit can cause a loss of several million riyals. The basic concept of a Contractor's All Risks Insurance is to offer comprehensive and adequate insurance protection against loss or damage to the construction project being undertaken (contract works), and construction plant and equipment during the construction period...
Open or Close
The cover includes legal liabilities to third parties in respect of loss or damage to property or bodily injury arising in connection with the execution of the contract works.
However, the following is excluded from the Contractor’s All Risk Insurance:
• Normal wear & tear
• Consequential loss
• War, armed conflicts, terror
• Nuclear reactions
-
Erection All Risks Insurance:
As a vendor or supplier you it’s a long way until your machinery and other materials that you have sold to your business partner can be set up under the roof of your customer’s premises. Mainly the erection and testing phase holds various risks that can bring vast damage or loss to your goods before acceptance can take place....
Open or Close
This policy is similar to the Contractor’s All Risk insurance but is mainly intended to cover projects for the erection of mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering projects in which plant and machinery are involved and where special hazards exist during testing and commissioning operations such as:
•Fire and explosion
•Flood, storm, tempest, thunder and lightning, hurricane, cyclone, earthquake, tsunami
•Theft
•Others
Additionally, the policy coverage includes all sums that you as a principal or contractor may become legally liable to pay as compensation for bodily injury or property loss sustained by any third party in relation to the erection of your machines.
It also covers the legal liability of the Insured against third party. Such policy can be purchased by the Contractors, Supplier, or the Customer.
The following is excluded from the Erection All Risk Insurance:
•Willful acts, negligence
•Normal wear and tear
•Faulty design, defective material or casting, bad workmanship
•War, armed conflicts, terror
•Nuclear reactions
•Consequential loss
Protecting your Finances
-
Fidelity Insurance:
Despite the best internal control measures in any corporate activity, mishaps like misappropriation and embezzlements by employees do take place. Fidelity Guarantee Insurance protects employers against such exposures.
Open or Close
Fraud and embezzlement in the workplace is on the rise, occurring in even the best work environments. These frauds can go on for years, and when discovered the ultimate impact can be enormous. Smaller companies are especially vulnerable to Fidelity crimes.
This insurance provides protection to the insured for financial loss he sustained due to fraud or dishonest acts committed by his employee(s), whether acting alone or in participation with others. It protects organizations from loss of money, securities, or inventory resulting from employee’s infidelity. Common Fidelity claims allege employee dishonesty, embezzlement, forgery, robbery, safe burglary, computer fraud, wire transfer fraud, counterfeiting, and other criminal acts.
-
Money Insurance:
Money is always susceptible to mishaps such as burglary and the like. Additionally, money in transit has always been a cause of concern and insecurity. Whether it is you or your authorized employee who is carrying it to the safe place, when it comes to money, nobody wants to take any risk...
Open or Close
This insurance provides coverage against loss of money and securities within the premises (such as in safe or drawer), and\or while being transported by the company’s employee. The policy can be extended to include damage to the safe\cash register caused by burglar. Money insurance covers not only cash\bank notes, it includes cheques, securities, stamps and postal and money orders.
-
Credit Risk Insurance:
Unpaid invoices can represent a significant percent of a company’s assets and are vulnerable to loss if customers fail to pay. Credit insurance protects your business from possible payment default by debtors, making sure your invoices will be paid and helps your business avoid catastrophic losses...
Open or Close
It includes payment failure due to insolvency, bankruptcy or, if a specified buyer does not make payment within the agreed credit period (protracted default).
The credit worthiness and financial stability of the insured customers is analyzed, and then a specific credit limit is assigned which is the amount that will be indemnified if the insured customer\debtors fail to pay.
Personal Property
-
Marine Hull Insurance:
Commercial and pleasure vessels\crafts such as ships, tankers, bulk carriers, smaller vessels, fishing boats and sailing vessels are all subject to a range of damage and liability risks which can amount to significant financial losses. A comprehensive marine hull insurance program is essential for protecting your assets and earnings as a recreational or commercial hull builder or operator...
Open or Close
This policy will cover your vessel, including hull, machinery, gear and equipment, and fitted accessories against loss or damage due to:
• Fire, explosion
• Stranding, sinking etc.
• Overturning, derailment ( of land conveyance )
• Violent theft by persons outside the vessel.
• Collision
• General average sacrifice, sacrifice, salvage charges
• Jettisons
• Piracy
• Breakdown of or accident to nuclear installations or reactors
• Contact with aircraft or similar objects, or objects falling therefrom, land conveyance , dock or harbor equipment or installation.
• Earthquake volcanic eruption or lightning.
• Crew Negligence.
-
Householder and Homeowners Insurance:
A home is not just the place you reside in, but a place that gives life to dreams, as you invest time and effort to plan each and every detail of your home. Home Insurance policy covers many risks threatening your home and gives a wide cover for all kinds of material as well as liability losses. It covers the loss damage the contents and valuables within your home such as jewelry, cameras, and watches, furniture, furnishing, household and personal effects, household appliances, decorations, Electronic Equipments due to fire and allied perils such as storm, tempest, earthquake, riot and civil commotion, burglary or theft. It can be extended to cover damages to your neighbor’s property due to a peril initiated at your premises. A larger neighbor’s liability limit can be availed via purchasing a Public Liability policy.
|
| |
|
|
Services
 |
Retail Brokerage Services |
|
Corporate Brokerage Services |
|
Consultancy Services |
|
Claims Analysis & Risk Management |
|
Training |
|
Reinsurance Brokerage Services |
|
Claim Settlement Advisory
"Loss Adjustments?" |
 |
