Kidnap & Ransom Insurance

The threat of kidnapping combined with the proliferation of new threats continues to increase. We offer you a tailored assistance solution for every risk situation.

An insurance designed to make your company's life easier.

Companies with activities abroad or employees on business trips are increasingly exposed to a diffuse threat that is no longer limited to so-called risky areas of the world. We cover the following events:

  • Kidnapping
  • Express kidnapping
  • Ransom
  • Extortion
  • Arbitrary detention by foreign governments
  • Threats
  • Disappearance of insured persons
  • Hijack
  • Hostage taking
     

Kidnap & Ransom provides companies with an assistance solution tailored to each risk situation. Because these situations are complex and sensitive emergencies, they must be managed by professionals. We take out policies with insurers who have forged partnerships with leading Response consultants who have resolved thousands of crisis situations.

We cover all expenses and losses related to a kidnapping situation, including:

  • Ransom
  • Loss of ransom during transport
  • Personal belongings
  • Civil liability
  • Additional fees (including medical expenses, rest and recovery, salary payments, public relations, security guards, etc.).
  • Accidental death and disability
  • Response fees to threats
  • Investigation fees related to a disappearance
  • Cost of Response Consultant
     

Why choose Howden?

Our teams at Howden accompany you:

  • In the analysis of your risks
  • In placing your risks with top-tier insurers
  • In the management of your claims
     

 

Our clients

  • Maritime shipowners
  • Operators
  • River shipowners / Barge operators
  • Fishing
  • Trading of raw materials - goods transported
  • Goods transported - Industry
  • T&L (freight forwarders, carriers, logisticians)
  • Yachting
  • Shipyards
  • Maritime experts
  • Ship financing banks