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Three things, and the lease is usually where they surface first. Pollution and contamination are excluded from standard general liability and property forms, so if your work involves chemical, biological or regulated materials, that exposure needs a separate environmental policy rather than an assumption.

Second, lab leases often carry decontamination and restoration obligations at the end of the term, which is a real cost that standard forms do not contemplate. Third, your property values are concentrated in equipment rather than furniture, which changes both the limit you need and the way it should be valued.

Sponsors, universities, hospital systems and partner institutions all tend to specify insurance in the research or collaboration agreement, and the requirements are usually more prescriptive than an ordinary commercial contract. Expect named limits, additional insured status, waivers of subrogation, and sometimes a requirement that coverage stay in force for a period after the work ends.

Send us the agreement before it is signed. Several of those items are endorsements the carrier has to issue, and a certificate claiming something the policy does not say will not survive a sponsor's contracts office.

Directors and officers liability, nearly always, and frequently it is written into the financing documents rather than merely suggested. D and O protects the personal exposure of the people making governance decisions, and investors who have taken board seats generally will not sit without it.

Alongside it, expect questions about employment practices liability, cyber, and whether your professional or product exposure is genuinely covered. We are used to reading the insurance covenant in a term sheet and telling you plainly what you already satisfy and what you do not.

Almost everything scales with you, and the policy usually does not unless somebody updates it. Property values rise sharply as equipment arrives. Business interruption needs recalculating on how long it would take to source replacement instruments and requalify a process, not how long it takes to repair a room.

Headcount crosses the workers compensation threshold, and Maryland's reaches lower than most founders assume. Product liability enters the picture the moment you are supplying material to anyone else. This review is worth doing before the move rather than after it.

We read the policies themselves rather than the declarations page, then ask what the business does today rather than what it did when the coverage was written.

On Rockville accounts that reliably surfaces equipment schedules that stopped being accurate two purchases ago, business interruption set at a founding-stage number, no environmental coverage where the work clearly calls for it, and research or lease agreements carrying insurance requirements the policies do not meet. You get a plain-English list of gaps, overlaps, and anything you are paying for twice.

Usually the same business day, and often within the hour.

Where it takes longer is when a sponsor, landlord or partner institution requires wording you do not carry yet. Additional insured status and waivers of subrogation are the common ones, and both are endorsements the carrier has to issue. Send us the agreement while it is still in review and the certificate is ready when the contracts office asks.