Builtin works exclusively with building and trade professionals, which means our premiums are competitive and our policies are designed to suit the risks builders face.

Statutory Liability Insurance

This covers you for the fines and penalties imposed under New Zealand Acts of Parliament.  It also covers the costs of defending these cases in court if necessary.  While health & safety fines cannot legally be insured for, the policy will pay legal defence costs if you're prosecuted and reparations if they are awarded by a judge. Read more.

Statutory Liability Insurance

Employers Liability Insurance

This covers you for claims for compensation from employees alleging they suffered personal injury during the course of their employment that isn't covered by ACC. It also covers the legal costs for defending such claims.  Read more.

Employers Liability Insurance

Professional Indemnity

This will cover your legal costs and damages if you and/or your business are held responsible for a mistake that has caused someone a financial loss. There are limitations to the types of activities covered. Read more.

Professional Indemnity

Contract Works Insurance

Whether you’re building new or doing an alteration, extension or renovation, your contract and/or the mortgage lender will require that contract works insurance is arranged to cover the work.  Also known as builders risk, the policy covers sudden and accidental loss or damage to the works specified in the contract. Read more.

Contract Works Insurance

Tools Insurance

Cover the cost of replacing your tools & other mobile assets if they’re stolen or damaged.  Benefits include replacement value cover, so you can buy new for old, and fast claims response times, so you can be back up and running quickly. Read more.

Tools Insurance

Commercial Vehicle Insurance

Protect your business vehicles anywhere in New Zealand. Full Cover, Third Party Only and Third Party, Fire & Theft options are available. Builtin’s policy automatically includes signwriting at no additional cost. Read more.

Commercial Vehicle Insurance

Performance and Retention Bonds

Every year hundreds of construction companies in New Zealand cease trading, often leaving their subbies thousands of dollars out of pocket. A retention bond means your own money isn’t at risk. You get paid in full and there’s no chasing to get your money back at the end of the maintenance period. Read More.

Contractors Bonds

LBP Professional Indemnity

This covers the costs of defending a complaint to the Building Practitioners Board, liability for damages from mistakes made in RBW Records of Work documentation and claims arising from LBPs supervising non-LBPs performing restricted building work. Read more.

LBP Professional Indemnity