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Equine & Cattle Insurance

Whether you operate a farm, own a prize show or race horse, or raise cattle, animal mortality insurance can help protect your animal investment from death, disease, or theft.

Equine and Cattle Risk Expertise

 

Berkley’s underwriting specialists take an innovative and collaborative approach to create insurance solutions for the equine and cattle owners and businesses. Our underwriting and claims teams bring industry-leading knowledge and expertise to help protect your valuable investments.

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Protecting Your Equine and Cattle Investment

Our general Equine and Cattle insurance solutions include, but are not limited to: 

 

Equine Mortality – can provide coverage for the death or humane destruction of equine due to accident, illness, disease, or injury. Additional coverages include: 

  • Veterinarian Services – can cover medical and surgical costs 
  • Agreed Value - for mortality loss up to 15 years old 
  • Surgical Coverage – can cover surgical expenses 
  • Loss of Use – can provide 50% of the insured value of the animal if it becomes totally and permanently unfit for use due to injury, and humane destruction is not warranted 
  • Stallion Infertility – can provide coverage for total and permanent impotence or infertility as a result of an accident, injury, or disease that occurred and manifested during the policy period. 

Cattle Mortality – can provide coverage for the death or humane destruction of cattle due to accident, illness, disease, or injury. Additional coverages include: 

  • Prospective Calf can provide coverage for: 
    • Slipped, aborted, absorbed, or stillborn calf during the policy period 
    • Death or humane destruction of the cow before the calf is born 
    • Death or humane destruction of calf within 30 days after birth 
  • Bull Infertility can provide coverage for total and permanent impotence or infertility as a result of an accident, injury, or disease that occurred and manifested during the policy period.
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