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How does kidnap & ransom insurance protect your people?

If you have people working in places where they could become a target, kidnap & ransom insurance provides vital protection, support and expertise when you need it most.

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Our professional kidnap insurance includes:
  • Intelligence before your people leave, to help them avoid unnecessary risks and spot a developing incident.
  • Experts on Call, should your people become concerned about a situation or unfolding event.
  • Emergency Evacuation if their security is threatened by unforeseen political or local unrest.
  • 24/7 Crisis Response in the event of a kidnapping, with mediators on the ground and experienced advisors supporting your organisation and the family throughout.
  • Insurance Against Payouts, if one has to be made, and cover for other expenses incurred, including loss of earnings.

Who do you need kidnap insurance for?

We provide kidnap insurance for senior executives, professionals, contractors, NGO staff and local workers. We also cover media personalities and journalists, and we work with high-net-worth family offices around the world.

We can tailor kidnapping cover for your specific needs:

  • Named people making a trip to specific place(s) you are concerned about, on given dates.
  • An annual policy, covering expats and/or locals working in single or multiple locations.
  • A global policy for high-profile individuals likely to be a target wherever they go.

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Where could your policy provide protection? 

We arrange cover throughout the world. This typically includes urban hotspots and remote areas of Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle-East, as well as places affected by political unrest and conflict, like Ukraine and Haiti.

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How the professionals handle kidnaps 

Charles ‘Chuck’ Regini is a Director of one of the global crisis response teams we work with. He tells us that the key to a successful outcome is to get people who understand the regional situation on the ground as quickly as possible, whilst supporting the organisation and family back home.

When a client had several employees snatched from their base in a remote part of the Congo in Central Africa, Chuck used a local priest as a trusted intermediary and was able to get everyone out safely.

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Kidnapping

When someone is taken unwillingly and kept without their consent.

Express Kidnapping

A short-term abduction to force a victim to withdraw money or make a digital transfer.

Hijacking

When someone is caught up in the unlawful seizure of an aircraft, vehicle, or ship in transit.

Detention

When a person is held illegally by another person or entity against their will.

Extortion

The practice of attempting to obtain something (money/corporate access for example) through force or threats.

Disappearance

When someone has gone missing without any notice or indication of where they have gone.

Accidental Death

When someone is accidentally killed during a kidnap and ransom event.

Dismemberment

Loss of Limb, Mutilation, Loss of Sight, Loss of Speech, or Permanent Total Disability caused by a kidnap event.

About us

Kidnap-insurance.com is brought to you by Bellwood Prestbury Ltd, a Lloyd’s Broker authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK.

Operating from the world-famous Lloyd’s Building in London and with offices in Europe, we specialise in high-risk policies for companies, NGOs and high-net-worth families around the world.

We have over 25 years’ experience creating bespoke kidnap insurance and other specialist policies for people operating in high-risk, remote, unstable or conflict-affected regions.

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