Business

We offer variety of products and services for businesses.  If you would like to find out more about how these insurances can protect your business please contact your insurance broker.

Businesses have a duty of care to their customers and the general public. In today's increasingly litigious world, companies and other organisations are increasingly likely to find themselves held liable for accidents and events that cause injury to these third parties or damage to their property.

A company’s people and its reputation are among the most valuable of its assets. We can assist through both our pre incident risk management services, as well as our specialised response services that these valued assets are protected.


Directors and Officers liability insurance protects Directors and Officers as well as Senior Managerial staff against claims arising from their actions and decisions in their official capacities. This includes damages awarded in civil courts and potential defense costs should they face criminal or regulatory charges.

Industrial Special Risks Property Insurance provides property damage, including boiler and machinery coverages, business interruptions, and extra expense for energy and energy –related businesses including oil and petrochemical, power generation & utilities, chemical, construction, process industries and mining companies.


Chartis offers a variety of environmental insurance products developed in response to the environmental exposures faced by a wide range of businesses and industries.

Extended warranty contracts cover a vast spectrum of consumer products, including computers, appliances, televisions, cameras and a range of other audio/visual equipment. Chartis offers programs tailored to meet the unique needs of electrical retailers, manufacturers and distributors.


Chartis has developed a suite of dedicated products for financial institutions that reflect the evolving needs of the industry, offer broader covers and most importantly, are easily understood.

Chartis offers a wide-range of tailored marine liability insurance coverages for the unique needs of transportation and facility operators.


Our Mergers and Acquisitions Insurance Group is New Zealand's leading provider of transactional insurance and alternative risk solutions to insurance brokers and to companies and their legal, financial and other advisors.

The group is also the pre-eminent traditional risk management resource to private equity, venture capital, and other investment firms, and to companies pursuing mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and other transactions.

Political risk insurance from Chartis can be tailored to cover an extensive range of overseas business: new or existing equity investments, cross-border loans, or contracts for good and services.


The growing reliance on litigation to resolve business disputes is increasing the levels and complexity of exposure for New Zealand businesses.

Professional Liability offers protection to businesses against claims by third parties for breaches of their professional duty.

Management Liability offers protection to business managers for claims of mismanaging their business by regulators, shareholders, creditors or other stakeholders.

With an increasingly hostile natural environment, including the risk of flood, as well as rising crime rates, the threats to a company's operations are greater than ever. The consequences of property damage are wide-ranging and the potential loss from business interruption, such as reduced productivity, can be devastating to the balance sheet, even more so than the original loss.


Chartis provides multi-line package insurance offerings to small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) businesses and offers distinctive coverages for a variety of business and industry sectors.