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As your independent partner, Scope Underwriting provides tailored insurance solutions backed by deep industry knowledge, flexibility, and a commitment to exceptional service, ensuring coverage as unique as your projects.
Flexible products, tailored to your needs
Informed by 35+ years in the construction market, we have built stand out products that deliver true flexibility. Our unique wordings provide comprehensive cover across both single projects and annual renewable policies for Contractors All Risks and Third Party Liability. Our optional extensions allow us to dial up or dial down cover, ensuring your clients insurance is fit for purpose throughout the full project lifecycle.
Contractors All Risks
At Scope Underwriting our Contractors All Risks policy offers broad coverage, strategically designed to protect your construction projects at every stage, including coverage for material damage, theft, and unforeseen events that could impact a project being delivered on time and on budget.
Third Party Liability
Our Third Party Liability insurance provides extensive coverage against liabilities arising from construction operations, including property damage and bodily injury to third parties, ensuring you are comprehensively protected against potential legal and financial risks to your business assets.
The Scope Team
Nicholas Vernon
Co Chief Executive Officer
Robert Higginson
Co Chief Executive OfficerOur Support Team
Tessa Chirnside
Chief Operating Officer
Stephen O'Young
Chief Technology Officer
Kerryn Dominguez
Chief Financial OfficerWhat Sets Us Apart
Extensive Underwriting Experience
Benefit from a combined 35+ years of underwriting experience, providing a deep understanding of industry and construction related risk.
Tailored Underwriting Approach
We specialise in crafting bespoke solutions, tackling even the most complex risks with a dedicated approach to finding the right coverage.
Exceptional Service Standards
Experience superior service and peace of mind with our commitment to high standards and prompt, reliable support for all your brokerage needs.
Our Advisory Framework
Creating and maintaining the correct insurance solution for your clients requires a structured approach. Our scoping framework ensures that you benefit from the depth of our experience, and can deliver comprehensive insurance solutions regardless of project complexity.
Collate
We help brokers to understand what information will be required to develop a comprehensive evaluation of each specific risk.
Understand
We analyse the risk information stack to fully understand the Insured, their contractual obligations and potential liabilities.
Tailor
We utilise the flexibility of our exclusive wording to draft a tailored insurance solution that effectively addresses both the identified risks and contractual requirements.
Maintain
With an always-on approach to our broker relationships, we maintain open channels of communication to confirm the level of cover remains adequate and appropriate for the duration of each project.
Our Network Partner
Venture. Collectively.
Rhodian is Australia's first shared equity underwriting network, incubating and accelerating specialist agencies across a broad range of commercial lines. As equity partners with Rhodian, our business is built on a proven framework of Rhodian in-house services including legal and compliance, finance, HR, brand and marketing and claims. Our partnership with Rhodian provides leading technology platforms in an entrepreneurial environment, meaning we have the capability and capacity to truly service our clients and develop market leading product.
Backed by World Leading Security
Lloyd’s is the world’s specialist insurance and reinsurance market. Operating in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, the Lloyd’s market has an unrivaled concentration of specialist underwriting expertise. For more than 150 years, Lloyd’s has provided tailored insurance and reinsurance solutions for a variety of Australian risks. Lloyd’s is licensed to write general insurance and reinsurance business under the Australian Insurance Act 1973. In 2018, Lloyd’s underwriters wrote A$2.8 billion of business in Australia, making Lloyd’s the fifth largest general insurer in the Australian market.
Latest Insights
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30th Sep 2024Author
Tessa ChirnsideA chat with Scope Underwriting's Co Founder & CEO, Nick Vernon. Nick discusses what differentiates Scope within the construction underwriting market and why he and Co Founder Rob Higginson brought the agency to market.
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30th Sep 2024Author
Tessa ChirnsideRob Higginson, Scope Underwriting's Co Founder & CEO talks about bringing Scope to market with Co Founder Nick Vernon, key industry trends and the availability of construction capacity looking ahead.
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19th Apr 2023Author:
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