Specialist insurer Beazley has entered into a strategic alliance with Vizient Insurance Services, a subsidiary of Vizient, to launch active shooter coverage.
The new offering is available immediately to Vizient members.
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In addition to insurance coverage to indemnify covered losses, the policy also includes prevention and crisis management services.
The coverage is designed to help reduce the likelihood of an incident.It offers risk assessments and educational tools to help clients enhance security and resilience to an incident.
In the event of an incident, Beazley will provide customers with crisis response services such as security, investigation into the cause of the incident and assistance with managing crisis communications.
Beazley terrorism and political violence underwriting Chris Parker said: “As incidents involving deadly weapons are all too frequent in the United States, organisations need to be prepared in case the worst does happen.
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By GlobalData“Unfortunately, immunity from the risk of an attack is impossible, but improving safety and risk management measures can reduce the likelihood or the severity of such an attack. We are very proud to work with Vizient in support of its members with our insurance and risk management offering.”
Vizientoffers solutions and services that are said to boost the delivery of high-value care by aligning cost, quality and market performance for over 50% of the nation’s acute care providers.
This includes 95% of the nation’s academic medical centres, paediatric facilities, community hospitals, integrated health delivery networks and over 20% of ambulatory providers.
