Employee Dishonesty & Crime
Is this the same as a fidelity bond?
In practice, yes. Employee dishonesty coverage and fidelity bonds both reimburse the business for losses caused by an employee's theft or fraud.
What We Do
Employee Dishonesty & Crime
Cover losses to your own treasury from internal theft, forgery, and fraud.
Talk to an expert
Request a call with an expert. Tell us about your situation and we will follow up within one business day with next steps.
About employee dishonesty and crime
Crime coverage (often called fidelity or employee dishonesty) pays your business back when an employee or insider takes money or property. It is also the policy most often required by lenders and surety carriers as a condition of a financial guarantee.
What this policy responds to
The core exposures this coverage line responds to.
Employee theft of money, securities, or property
Forgery and alteration of checks or instruments
Computer and funds-transfer fraud
Client funds held in trust (where endorsed)
Typical operators on this line
Who we most often place this coverage for.
Businesses that handle cash, client funds, or payables
Lenders and aggregators that require it of partners
Firms holding money in trust for clients
What this policy does not cover
Common gaps clients assume are included. These usually need a separate line or an endorsement.
Losses you cannot document or prove
Trading losses or ordinary business shortfalls
Theft by owners or partners (unless specifically endorsed)
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.
The amount of money or property employees can access
Internal controls and segregation of duties
Headcount and prior loss history
Limit and deductible selected
Checklist
Employee Dishonesty & Crime 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
Frequently Asked Questions
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What We Do
Why Covered by Cornerstone for employee dishonesty & crime
- 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
Cover losses to your own treasury from internal theft, forgery, and fraud.
Covered by Cornerstone
How we use AI
AI helps our insurance team work faster. Our specialists still own every call.
For Employee Dishonesty & Crime 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 insurance 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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Ready to price employee dishonesty & crime?
Share a few details and an agent will respond within one business day with the lines that fit and the carrier panel we plan to market to.