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Wholesale coverage guide

Builders Risk.

Direct answer. Builders risk insurance commonly addresses physical loss to covered property during construction, renovation, or installation, subject to the project, policy form, exclusions, valuation, and covered causes of loss. Wholesale review may be appropriate for catastrophe zones, major renovation, frame construction, vacancy, project complexity, or unusual ownership and contract structures.

AudienceLicensed retail insurance professionals
Guide typeProperty and Casualty
Reviewed2026-08-24
Wholesale fit

When specialty review may help.

  • Ground-up construction or major renovation in catastrophe-prone areas
  • Frame, vacant, historic, mixed-use, or difficult project characteristics
  • Large values, phased projects, existing structures, or delayed completion concerns
  • Complex owner, contractor, lender, or contractual interests
Authority boundary

This guide is educational. It does not confirm current appetite, carrier access, a quote, policy terms, or bind authority. Account-specific eligibility requires Hedge review.

Submission quality

Prepare the decision facts.

Information to prepare

  • Project scope, timeline, budget, and completed-value support
  • Site, construction, protection, catastrophe, and adjacent-property information
  • Owner, contractor, lender, and loss-payee interests
  • Prior losses, security, water-damage controls, and requested extensions

Questions that change the placement

  • Is the project ground-up, renovation, installation, or a combination?
  • What existing structure and catastrophe exposures exist?
  • Who owns the property and who is responsible under the contract?
  • What values, delays, testing, and temporary works need consideration?
Hedge resources

Forms and class guidance for this coverage.

Hedge-owned form

Hedge Builders Risk Supplemental

A fillable Hedge supplemental for new construction and renovation builders risk accounts.

Read and download
Hedge-owned form

Hedge Schedule of Locations Supplement

A fillable Hedge schedule for presenting multiple premises and location-level exposure information.

Read and download
Class appetite

Course of construction

Read the public, directional class guidance and prepare for account-specific review.

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Class appetite

Fix-and-flip & rehab investor

Read the public, directional class guidance and prepare for account-specific review.

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Class appetite

General contractors

Read the public, directional class guidance and prepare for account-specific review.

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Common questions

Use the guide safely.

Does this page confirm that Hedge can place this account?

No. It explains the coverage and the information that commonly changes a wholesale review. Use the appetite checker or submit the account facts for a current Hedge decision.

What should a retail agent send first?

Project scope, timeline, budget, and completed-value support Site, construction, protection, catastrophe, and adjacent-property information Owner, contractor, lender, and loss-payee interests Prior losses, security, water-damage controls, and requested extensions

Can an AI agent use this page?

Yes for research, citations, and safe prefill. Customer data and submission actions belong in Hedge's authenticated OAuth and MCP workflow and require explicit user approval.

Next action

Bring Hedge the account facts.

Start with public appetite, use the relevant Hedge forms to organize the file, then send a reviewable submission through Hedge. A form start is not a market submission.