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Underground precast insurance · New England

Underground & utility precast insurance for New England.

Manholes, catch basins, vaults and box culverts go into public infrastructure, get delivered to open trenches, and get judged against DOT specs. That combination has its own risk profile — here's how the program answers it.

Exposure matrix

What goes wrong, and what responds.

The exposures below are the ones that actually generate claims in this segment. Each one maps to a specific coverage on the program — that mapping is the underwriting.

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Exposure
What happens & what responds
SPEC

DOT & municipal spec claims

Rejected or failed structures on public jobs bring back-charges, delay claims and completed-operations suits with a government entity on the other side.Responds: GL products–completed operations

HOLE

Trench-side delivery

Setting structures at open excavations puts your driver and boom at the most dangerous spot on the jobsite, with trench-collapse severity in play.Responds: Commercial auto, GL & workers' comp

CRSH

Handling heavy sections

Barrel sections, bases and lids shift, roll and crush during yard handling and load-out — a classic severity exposure for plant crews.Responds: Workers' compensation

CAST

Forms & production molds

Steel forms for standard structures are your production capacity; a damaged form doesn't just cost its price, it stops the line.Responds: Property & business income

H2O

Washout water & yard runoff

High-pH concrete washout and yard stormwater are pollution exposures regulators watch closely at every precast yard.Responds: Site pollution liability

One program, whole operation

This segment rarely travels alone.

Most producers cast more than one product line and run their own delivery. The program underwrites the whole operation together — see the other segments below or start from the program overview.

Underground precast insurance FAQ

Common questions, straight answers.

For anything specific to your operation, call 978-897-7773 and ask about the Precast Concrete Manufacturers Insurance Program.

Are we liable if a contractor installs our structure incorrectly?
You can still be pulled into the claim — in infrastructure failures, everyone who touched the product gets named, and you'll spend defense dollars proving the installation was the problem. Products liability with real defense coverage, plus documentation practices we help set up, is what gets you out clean.
Is the boom on our delivery truck covered under auto or general liability?
It depends on what the boom is doing — driving down the road is auto, lifting a structure into a trench can fall to GL or need riggers' coverage. This seam is one of the most common uninsured-claim surprises in precast delivery, so the program places it deliberately rather than leaving it to policy interpretation.
Do back-charges from a DOT or municipal job count as insurance claims?
Sometimes. Back-charges for property damage or for damage caused by a defective product can trigger GL; back-charges that are purely contractual (delay, re-supply) usually don't. We review the contract terms driving them — reducing back-charge exposure is a risk-management issue as much as an insurance one.
Ask about the program

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Tell us what you cast, how you deliver it, and where it goes. We'll take it from there.

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