Tysers Insurance Brokers | Construction & Plant Hire

Insurance Solutions For

COnstruction & plant hire companies

Construction Insurance experts providing market leading cover and bespoke insurance solutions.

Tysers are an experienced construction insurance broker, providing market leading cover to both contractors and sub-contractors. Our brokers understand the construction industry and can provide insurance solutions to fit your unique risks.

We recognise every client’s requirements are different, from single to multi-site projects, building homes to commercial properties, roads to bridges, working at height or bored pile construction.

 

WHY CHOOSE TYSERS?

  • Our brokers have specialist construction knowledge and market expertise.
  • We will search the market to negotiate a programme of covers specifically designed to mitigate your exposures.
  • A range of products available including Commercial Combined Insurance and Hireshield Plant ‘All Risks’ Insurance.
  • Insurance cover available for ‘High Risk’ activities including Scaffolding, Roofing, Demolition, Asbestos Removal, Piling, Underpinning & Tunnelling.
  • A dedicated in-house claims service with construction claims specialists with extensive understanding of the industry and their clients.

 

Who do we Insure?

Our construction clients include:

  • General Contractors - including Builders, Bricklayers, Interior Fit-out, Plumbers & Electricians
  • Groundworkers / Civil Engineers
  • Roofers and Scaffolders
  • Property Developers
  • Architects and Engineers
  • “High Risk” Trades including Demolition, Asbestos Removal, Tunnelling, Piling & Underpinning

Contact: Construction & Plant Hire Insurance

For more information contact your local office:

  • Hitchin

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  • Manchester

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  • London

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  • Birmingham

    Tysers Birmingham

    The Colmore Building, 20 Colmore Circus Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6AT

    +44 (0)1462 477872

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JCT clause 6.5.1

Tysers can arrange non-negligence cover under JCT clause 6.5.1. which will provide cover for any claim of liability, loss or damage resulting from the following: Collapse, Subsidence, Ground heave, Vibration, Weakening or removal of support and Lowering of ground water. Contact us to find out more.

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Support when you need it the most

Our expert in-house claims management team are on-hand to support you from initial notification through to satisfactory settlement.

Hireshield Subrogation Waiver

As part of our Plant ‘All Risks’ Insurance policy, you will have the option to include the Hireshield subrogation waiver. This waiver will provide cover for your plant whilst out on hire and mean that your hirer will not be responsible for loss or damage to the plant. Contact us for more information.

Insurance Covers

This is a sample of the main insurance covers we provide, you can also view our Construction Brochure here. If there is a risk unique to you, please contact us and we will try to devise bespoke cover to meet your requirements.

  • Contractors 'All Risks' Insurance

    Contactors ‘All Risks’ Insurance provides cover for permanent and temporary works, including site materials.
    Policies can be designed to include various covers to meet contractual obligations. Depending on an individual’s
    requirements, a policy may include; project insurance, contract works insurance, own plant and equipment insurance, hired in plant & equipment insurance and structural warranty. 

  • Single Project Insurance

    Single Project Insurance provides cover for all contracted parties on a specific project policy. These policies
    are becoming a more common way to insure large ‘one-off’ construction projects as they are considered more
    comprehensive and cost-effective than purchasing several individual policies.

  • Contractors Combined Insurance
  • Professional Indemnity Insurance

    Professional Indemnity Insurance typically covers a wide range of risks including professional negligence, copyright infringement, libel and slander, employee dishonesty and loss or damage to client documents.

    Any business or sole trader providing professional consultancy services, advice or design work to another business is strongly advised to take out Professional Indemnity Insurance. However all construction firms and tradespeople should consider their risks and exposures in this regard and how they might be managed through Professional Indemnity Insurance.

  • Commercial Fleet Insurance

    We can insure single motor vehicles or a fleet of motor vehicles under one policy. Fleet insurance is available for all types of construction businesses and vehicles, which can all be covered under one policy.

  • Plant Hire / Hireshield Insurance

    Plant Hire 

    HIRESHIELD INSURANCE SOLUTIONS

    We are an established provider of insurance to the Plant Hire sector.

    Conditions of hire between a plant hire firm and the hirer, will make the hirer responsible for loss or damage equipment during the hire period.

    We understand that sometimes there are commercial reasons when a plant hire firm would not want the hirer to be liable for loss or damage. There are also instances where it would be very difficult for the hirer to obtain insurance to cover plant hired by them, especially when the hire periods are short term.

    Our recommended Plant ‘All Risks’ Insurance policy has the option to include the Hireshield Subrogration waiver, which essentially means that a plant hire firm can waive their usual rights of recourse against the hirer and instead have the plant covered by their own policy. Some plant firms will increase their hire charges in instances where subrogation rights are waived.

    Some of the solutions we arrange for plant hire firms include:

    • Annual Plant All Risks policy, including the Hireshield Subrogration waiver
    • Property Damage and Business Interruption Insurance
    • Public/Products Liability Insurance
    • Employers Liability Insurance
    • Good In Transit Insurance
    • Management Liability Insurance including Employment Practice Liability
    • Cyber & Crime Insurance
    • Inspection policies, relating to statutory required inspection of plant

    Our solutions are underwritten by a carefully selected panel of insurers, based on their financial strength, policy cover, and ability to provide a first-class service to clients.

     

    To learn more about the products we can offer construction companies, download our brochure here.

  • Public Liability Insurance

    Public Liability insurance covers third party claims resulting from injury or damage to property, due to an insured’s business activities. Third-party claims are one of the most common claims made against contractors in the construction sector, so it’s important to have the right cover in place to protect your business.

  • Property Owners Insurance
  • Structural Warranty Insurance

    Structural Warranty or Latent Defects Insurance protects the owner against the cost of rectifying structural defects of the owned building. A Structural Warranty must be purchased in advance of completion and usually lasts 10 years from original construction. Where a building is sold on completion, this warranty is passed on to the buyer and remains valid for the duration of the agreed warranty period.

  • Cyber & Crime Insurance

    Cyber insurance is designed to help your business offset the costs of recovery after a cyber-related security breach, ransomware attack or similar event. A comprehensive cyber policy will cover you for the direct costs and liability to third parties following a cyber-attack. However, policies often exclude financial or asset losses incurred by your business following an attack.

    Crime insurance protects your business against the financial losses incurred because of fraudulent activity (many policies include cyber events); criminals (including cyber criminals and employees) taking or misappropriating money, securities or property such as funds taken from your account.

    Learn more about Cyber and Crime Insurance here

  • Management Liability Insurance

“Our broker has arranged all aspects of our insurances for over 6 years and we have always been happy with the service.”
“Their communication is excellent. They have always taken the time to highlight some of the conditions in our Contractors Policy in particular, which if not adhered to, have the potential to effect claims. We appreciate their direct, straightforward yet professional approach.”
“They have become our valued business partner.”

Director, Sport Surfaces Construction Company

“I have worked with the organisation since about 2004 and, in that period, we have enjoyed a sound professional relationship. My business is property management; particularly leasehold apartments. This is a complexed facet to the whole property management industry. I have found my broking team to be very capable of understanding of the subtleties and nuances involved and it is to their credit they have immersed themselves wholly into appreciating the difficulties we encounter.”
“I have found my Account Director and his colleagues to be most helpful whenever I have needed their help. Their professionalism and customer service skills are impeccable. Whenever I make any requests their speed to respond is fantastic. Nothing is too difficult, nothing is too much to ask, they are there all the time, even out of hours should the going gets tough. The dedication to their role is truly commendable.”
“I would highly recommend them”.

Director, Residential Block Property Management Company

“We appointed our broker about 4 years ago when they competed for our business and were able to save on our premium. However, we are not just interested in money and the advice we have received from them has been invaluable, they have consistently challenged and reviewed our insurance programme to ensure it remains fit for purpose.”
“We were exhibiting when we had an accident with the gazebo causing damage to surrounding exhibitors. The in-house claims department sorted all aspects of the claim out without us even having to chase for information.”
“Our business has recently expanded and our insurances have had to evolve as our requirements have changed.”
“We have always found them professional and consider them an important business partner”.

Director, Specialist Engineering Company