CANADIAN INSURANCE TERM

Commercial Crime Insurance

Business insurance for specified theft, dishonesty or fraud losses, such as certain employee-dishonesty or money-and-securities exposures, subject to the selected crime form and endorsements.

Plain-language definition. A real policy, endorsement and provincial law can use more specific wording than a glossary summary.
TERM SNAPSHOT
TermCommercial Crime Insurance
ContextCanadian insurance
Source typeIndustry glossary
Policy wordingControls claim

What does Commercial Crime Insurance mean?

Business insurance for specified theft, dishonesty or fraud losses, such as certain employee-dishonesty or money-and-securities exposures, subject to the selected crime form and endorsements.

Crime insurance is not automatically the same as property or cyber insurance. Different forms can treat employee theft, robbery, forgery, funds-transfer fraud and social engineering differently.

EXAMPLE

Commercial Crime Insurance in practice

A business discovers a direct financial loss allegedly caused by an employee's dishonest acts. Whether it is insured depends on the crime policy's employee definition, insuring agreement, discovery provisions and limits.

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Primary reference

Insurance Bureau of Canada — Insurance GlossaryCanada Rate Lab — Sources & Data