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Why AXIS
Lower Middle Market
AXIS Wholesale is bringing additional value to the E&S marketplace with an expanded risk appetite available through our dedicated Wholesale Lower Middle Market (LMM) business unit.
Our LMM team is backed by our proven AXIS Wholesale leadership. We commit to being a market that is innovative and focused on providing elevated service to our partners.
Lower Middle Market
Target classes - Primary Casualty
Lessor's risk/OL&T
- Medical offices
- Office buildings
- Parking lots and garages
- Shopping centers
- Warehouses
Mercantile
- Car washes
- Contractors equipment rental
- Nurseries/landscaping materials
- Retail stores
Hospitality (accommodation and food services)
- Bed and breakfasts
- Civic, service, or social clubs
- Country clubs
- Concessionaires – NOC
- Hotels
- Special event facilities
Manufacturers and distributors
- Appliances
- Apparel/clothing products
- Auto parts (non-critical)
- Consumer products
- Electronic equipment
- Exercise equipment
- Food and beverage
- Furniture and fixtures
- Machinery and machinery parts
- Sporting goods
- Tools
- Toys
- Textile products
Contractors (commercial work, with exceptions for residential remodel and repair)
- Carpentry
- Concrete construction
- Electricians
- Fire suppression
- Flooring
- General contractors
- HVAC
- Janitorial
- Landscapers
- Metal works
- Painting
- Plumbing
- Remodelers and tenant improvement
- Roofers
- Service contractors
Lower Middle Market
Target classes – Excess Casualty
Manufacturing/products, including, but not limited to:
- Amusement devices
- Furniture
- Machinery and equipment
- Oil and gas related machinery, fittings, equipment
- Safety equipment
- Sporting goods
Construction Industry:
- Commercial construction (excluding any form of wood frame construction)
- Contractors equipment rental
- Landscaping
- Janitorial services
Transportation:
- Ambulances (non-emergency)
- Bus operators (charter, transit, school)
- Car services
- Services/Limousines
- Moving and storage
- Para transit
- Small fleet trucking
- Specialty hauling
- Taxis
- Van services
Other Classes:
- Agriculture operations
- Amusement and water parks
- Commercial real estate
- Distributors
- Forestry
- Gas stations/convenience stores
- Gun clubs and shooting ranges
- Hospitality industries
- Importers
- Non-standard commercial premise operations
- Not-for-profit organizations
- Retail trades
- Service industries
- Special events
- Sports and entertainment (excluding athletic participants)
- Warehousing
- Wholesalers
Lower Middle Market
Target classes - E&S Property
- Condominiums (MNC or better)
- Hotels
- Lessor's risk (LRO)
- Light manufacturing
- Private schools
- Real estate
- Restaurants
- Warehouses
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- Quick decision making
- Championing your needs
- An honest approach
∗Claims examples may be based on actual cases, composites of actual cases or hypothetical claim scenarios and are provided for illustrative purposes only. Facts have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the parties. Whether or to what extent a particular loss is covered depends on the facts and circumstances of the loss, the terms and conditions of the policy as issued and applicable law.
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