Wholesaler-Distributors Insurance
As a wholesaler-distributor, you play a critical role in your customers’ supply chain. They—and many others— are counting on you. We’re guessing “downtime” is not in your vocabulary.
Your Risks, Our Solutions
Business Insurance from ERIE Has You Covered
Your Liability
Premises Liability Coverage
If you become legally liable for injuries suffered by a customer after something like a slip-and-fall accident at your business.
Product Liability Coverage
To pay for damages and legal defense fees if a customer names you in a lawsuit after being injured by one of your products.
Data Breach Liability Coverage
If you become legally liable because of accidental release of personal or credit card information in your care. (Available for purchase as an additional coverage.)
Your Property & Income
Coverage for Property and Income Loss
For property that is damaged by theft, water damage, fire, lightning, wind, vandalism or other covered perils, as well as funds to rent an alternate space while your business is being repaired.
Peak Season Coverage
Your inventory is protected by extra coverage during peak seasons when there’s more of it in stock. (Available for purchase as an additional coverage.)
Transportation Coverage for Stolen Merchandise
In case merchandise in transit is stolen.
Your Employees
Workers' Compensation Coverage
Protects you in the event an employee suffers an injury or disease arising in the course and the scope of their employment, regardless of negligence on your part. (Available for purchase as a separate policy, not available in Ohio.)
Business Auto Coverage
To protect you, your drivers and your business auto fleet in many important ways. (Available for purchase as a separate policy.)
Employment Practices Liability
Protection for you and your business in the event an employee claims to have experienced employment discrimination, wrongful termination or sexual harassment. (Available for purchase as an additional coverage.)
EVEN MORE COVERAGE
You’ll be glad to know that your store insurance goes the extra mile with these extra coverages.
Hired & Nonowned Auto Liability
Covers liability arising from autos you lease, hire, or borrow or autos of your employees being used in connection with your business.1
Sewer or Drain Backup
With your Erie Secure Business policy, covers a loss caused by water or sewage that backs up through sewers or drains or overflows from a sump pump.2
ORDINANCE OR LAW
Covers increased costs of complying with building codes which regulate construction and repair of damaged buildings after a covered loss.
DATA BREACH RESPONSE EXPENSES
To notify and assist affected individuals and provide various case management services.1
Employee Theft
Protects you against employee theft, which is a situation that can be hard to detect.
Earthquake
Covers a loss caused by an earthquake.2
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Available for purchase as an additional coverage on select policies.
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Available for purchase as an additional coverage.
Great service is part of the package.

Risk Control
You have access to risk control tools and services to help you identify and reduce common business risks.

Specialized Services
You have support from claims and customer service teams that have special training in serving businesses like yours.

Your Local ERIE Agent
Your independent ERIE agent is there for you from quote time to claim time to every time in between.
Claims service you can count on
With ERIE, you have claims service that’s local and quick to respond.
If you have to file a claim, you can rest easy knowing that ERIE stands behind its promise of service. ERIE has claims offices throughout its territory, so help is always close by. Reimbursement for smaller claims can happen in as little as 48 hours.