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E&O for Professional Services
E&O for consultants, accountants, and agencies: defense and settlement when a client says your advice or deliverable caused them financial harm.
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E&O for professional services
Professional services firms sell expertise, and the claim that follows a project is usually that the work fell short. E&O funds the defense and settlement of those claims: a missed deadline, an error in advice, or a deliverable a client says caused them harm.
What this policy responds to
The core exposures this coverage line responds to.
Defense costs and settlements tied to professional negligence
Errors in advice, analysis, or deliverables
Missed-deadline and failure-to-deliver claims
Claims from clients who relied on your work
Typical operators on this line
Who we most often place this coverage for.
Consultants and management advisers
Accounting and bookkeeping firms
Marketing, design, and creative agencies
What this policy does not cover
Common gaps clients assume are included. These usually need a separate line or an endorsement.
Client data breaches, which sit with cyber liability
Bodily injury or property damage at your office, covered by general liability
Disputes over your own unpaid invoices
What drives the cost
Underwriters price this line on your specifics, not a flat rate. These are the factors that move a premium up or down.
Revenue and the size of the engagements you take on
The type of advice and how much a client relies on it
Claims history and your contract and scoping practices
Whether you subcontract part of the work
Checklist
E&O for Professional Services checklist
Tell us about your operation
Share what your business does, your revenue band, and the contracts or clients driving the need. This sets the exposures an underwriter will price.
We market your risk to carriers
Our agents take your profile to the carrier panel that writes this line, then compare terms, limits, and exclusions side by side.
Review quotes and choose limits
You see the options in plain language: what each policy covers, where the gaps are, and how the limit and deductible change the premium.
Bind coverage and get your documents
Once you pick a quote, we bind the policy and send your certificate and policy documents, usually within one business day.
Manage renewals and changes
As your business changes, we adjust limits, add endorsements, and handle the renewal so coverage keeps pace with your exposure.
FAQ
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Why Cornerstone Surety Bonds for e&o for professional services
- States covered
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All 50
States covered
Filings, agents, and renewals everywhere you do business.
- Specialist assigned
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1:1
Specialist assigned
A real person who knows your filing inside out, start to finish.
- Surprise fees
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0
Surprise fees
Transparent scope and quote up front. No add-ons mid-stream.
What We Do
E&O for consultants, accountants, and agencies: defense and settlement when a client says your advice or deliverable caused them financial harm.
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How we use AI
AI helps our bonding team work faster. Our specialists still own every call.
For E&O for Professional Services filings, AI helps our team find the right starting point quickly and reuse data you have already given us, so the work moves without extra effort from you. A licensed Cornerstone specialist reviews everything before it leaves our hands. Your information stays on our infrastructure, not in a public LLM.
On Our Infrastructure
Our models run on Cornerstone servers, not public chatbots. Your business information is not sent to a third-party LLM or used to train anyone else's product.
An Assistant, Not an Operator
AI helps our bonding team start their research in the right place and surface the resources to look at. Specialists vet what comes back and make the call.
Less Duplicate Work for You
Atlas figures out what data each form needs, then reuses what you have already given us so the same question does not come around twice. That is how approvals come faster.
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