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Insurance for the most complex crises

Specialist cover and crisis response for active assailant, kidnap, cyber, terrorism, reputational and contamination risks. Underwritten by the people who know these risks best.

Independent

Owned by nobody else. No ties to an insurer, broker or response provider, so the service you get is only ever in your client’s interest.

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Trusted

In-house threat intelligence sits alongside the policy, backed by Lloyd’s and A-rated paper with licences to underwrite in all major markets.

Our products

Robust

Market-leading limits across a full suite of malicious risk products, so the cover holds when a loss is large, or complex.

About us

Innovative

We write blended and bespoke wordings for threats that did not exist last year, protecting people, balance sheets and reputations.

Innovative products

Navigating complexity

We are an independent underwriting agency with a singular focus on providing insurance and reinsurance across the spectrum of malicious and hostile risks.

We provide insurance brokers and distributors with a comprehensive suite of world-class products designed to meet clients' needs now and in the future.

We are backed by Lloyd’s of London and A-rated insurance company paper to write primary and excess and our capacity partners trust our judgement on complex risks enough to back solutions other insurers wont. That trust is what allows us to deliver cover that most markets can’t provide.

Our business is built around your needs and with this comes exceptional service.

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What we do

Four ways we protect clients from malicious and hostile risk: unique insurance you can build line by line, the responders who turn up when it happens, and the consultants who help you avoid it.

INSURANCE PROTECTION

Insurance cover for active assailant and workplace violence, terrorism, cyber, kidnap for ransom, personal accident, reputational risk, and product contamination and recall. Expertly built for you, line by line.

See all our insurance products

CRISIS RESPONSE

Direct access to the world’s leading responders, expert advisors, and security consultants, retained by us and triggered by the policy. One call, no delay, however complex the situation.

See our bespoke crisis response cover

BLENDED RISK SOLUTIONS

We blend our policies together seamlessly, providing the broadest cover to address multiple crisis situations and all with a single crisis responder behind it all.

Explore Integra, an example of a blended solution

SAMPHIRE INTELLIGENCE

Intelligence reports that map the threat, audit resilience, and advise on mitigation: before and after any decision to transfer the risk to a policy.

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HEAR FROM OUR EXPERTS

“People or assets. Home or overseas. Political, economic or ideological. Local or global. Whatever the threat, the promise doesn’t change: world-class insurance, true experts, and exceptional service.”

– Charlie Hanbury, Chief Executive Officer, Samphire Risk

Intelligence, not commentary

Our analyst team publishes the research we use ourselves - country risk, emerging threats and the incidents behind them.

MALICIOUS RISKS, IN DEPTH: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Political violence, grey zone conflict, terrorism and stochastic propaganda are converging on the US, often in ways existing policies were never built to cover. Written for our own underwriters, this report maps the threats and the actors driving them. Describing where current protection falls short and what to do about it.

THE SAHEL: INSECURITY BETWEEN THE AFRICAN DESERT AND SAVANNAS

Fourteen countries, most of them fragile, sit on the resources everyone wants. Russia, China, the Gulf states, and their proxies have created a new order. Understanding what this means for assets, contracts and duty of care for firms operating there.

Understand the new order

ACTIVE SHOOTER AND DOMESTIC TERRORISM IN THE USA

Fifty active shooter incidents in a single year, and more than half of the country’s domestic terror attacks now happening at demonstrateions/ The threat is armed, personal and largely unpredictable. See how the risk is defined, measured and tested in this report.

Read the full report

VIRTUAL KIDNAP

No one is actually taken, but victims are coerced into providing fake proof - a live-stream hostage scene, a voice on the phone - while a scammer demands fast, untraceable payment. This guide covers how the deception works, the tells that expose it, and what to do the moment a ransom call comes in.

Learn how it works

EVOLVING MALICIOUS RISK SOUTHEAST ASIA AND BEYOND

Southeast Asia’s malicious risks used to be local and largely predictable. This is no longer the case: Islamic fighters are dispersing, organised crime is travelling, strikes and riots are rising, and countries are competing over the same waters. Understand what this means for people on the ground.

Read the regional outlook

CLIMATE CHANGE AND EVOLVING MALICIOUS RISKS

Climate change doesn't just reshape the physical world; it's rewriting the malicious risk landscape too. This guide sets out three ways climate change is driving political violence, terrorism, and strategic competition, and what that means for organisations operating in an increasingly contested world.

Read the full analysis

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Samphire and Samphire Risk are trading names of Samphire Services Limited which is an appointed representative of Davies MGA Services Limited, a company authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under firm reference number 597301 to carry on insurance distribution activities. Samphire Services Limited is registered in England and Wales number 13421262. Registered Office: 3rd Floor, 1 Ashley Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 2DT, United Kingdom. Trading Address: Samphire Risk, 34 Lime Street, London, EC3M 7AT.  

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