Kidnap & Ransom Insurance

The threat of kidnapping combined with the proliferation of new threats continues to increase. We offer you a tailored assistance solution for every risk situation.

An insurance designed to make your company's life easier.

Companies with activities abroad or employees on business trips are increasingly exposed to a diffuse threat that is no longer limited to so-called risky areas of the world. We cover the following events:

  • Kidnapping
  • Express kidnapping
  • Ransom
  • Extortion
  • Arbitrary detention by foreign governments
  • Threats
  • Disappearance of insured persons
  • Hijack
  • Hostage taking
     

Kidnap & Ransom provides companies with an assistance solution tailored to each risk situation. Because these situations are complex and sensitive emergencies, they must be managed by professionals. We take out policies with insurers who have forged partnerships with leading Response consultants who have resolved thousands of crisis situations.

We cover all expenses and losses related to a kidnapping situation, including:

  • Ransom
  • Loss of ransom during transport
  • Personal belongings
  • Civil liability
  • Additional fees (including medical expenses, rest and recovery, salary payments, public relations, security guards, etc.).
  • Accidental death and disability
  • Response fees to threats
  • Investigation fees related to a disappearance
  • Cost of Response Consultant
     

Our clients

  • Maritime shipowners
  • Operators
  • River shipowners / Barge operators
  • Fishing
  • Trading of raw materials - goods transported
  • Goods transported - Industry
  • T&L (freight forwarders, carriers, logisticians)
  • Yachting
  • Shipyards
  • Maritime experts
  • Ship financing banks

Why choose Howden?

Our teams at Howden accompany you:

  • In the analysis of your risks
  • In placing your risks with top-tier insurers
  • In the management of your claims
     

 

Contact

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Jean-Baptiste De Malartic

Director of Maritime and Transport Product Line and General Manager of Howden Marine France
Photo of Jean-Baptiste De Malartic

Jean-Baptiste De Malartic

Director of Maritime and Transport Product Line and General Manager of Howden Marine France

Jean-Baptiste graduated from EDHEC Business School with an MSc in Strategy and Organization. After an initial experience at Gan Patrimoine (a subsidiary of Groupama) in personal insurance, he worked for four years in Italy for an insurance captive of the Crédit Agricole group to develop its activity and partnerships. Upon his return to France, he joined the underwriting department of AXA XL (formerly AXA CS) to lead development and innovation projects before integrating the marine cargo underwriting team in France, of which he became responsible in 2020.

Currently serving as Director of the Maritime and Transport Product Line and General Manager of Howden Marine France, Jean-Baptiste is responsible for developing Maritime and Transport solutions, which are one of the pillars of Howden in France. Howden Marine in France is built on the historical foundations of Guian, superbly developed with Seasecure under the direction of Jean Brossollet, with Jean-Baptiste succeeding him.