Products
For insurance programs originating in the US:
Property and Casualty
- International Advantage® Product Suite
- Complex Global Property Programs
- Umbrella and Excess Casualty
Specialty Lines
Accident and Health
International Advantage® Product Suite
Overview
ACE GPSSM brings multinational clients customized global solutions for a broad range of international risk management issues. Our global approach provides protection on a compliant and cost effective basis.
The International Advantage® suite of casualty products provides multinational insurance and services for U.S.-based companies, non-profit organizations and educational institutions that have operations or exposures outside the U.S., from exposures that are simple or limited in scope to large, diverse, complex exposures that require customized risk transfer solutions.
The International Advantage® product suite provides a range of options that can respond to a company’s growth, geographic expansion and operational changes.
Our products include International Advantage® Package Plus, International
Advantage® Enterprise Solutions and International Advantage® Defense Base Act Program. Also available are Executive Assistance® Services.
For accounts with large and complex foreign exposures, International Advantage® Enterprise Solutions provides Controlled Master Program policies and admitted local policy placements, including:
- Commercial General Liability, Contingent and Locally admitted Auto Liability,
Local Workers Compensation, Contingent Employers Liability (EL) and Repatriation, Foreign Voluntary Compensation, local EL - Limits up to $25 million per occurrence/aggregate; $1 million for emergency
medical evacuation/repatriation - Flexible program structures that offer customized risk transfer options, as well as risk retention options through deductible and retrospective rating structures and use of captive reinsurers
- Option for Executive Assistance® Services, a set of emergency medical, travel, personal, legal and security assistance services for covered individuals traveling or working outside the U.S., including medical evacuation/repatriation and political evacuation/relocation, as well as online ID cards, security briefs and pre-trip planning tools
- Option for seamless coordination with stand alone ACE A&H AD&D, Medical and ACE Kidnap & Extortion products
For accounts with overseas operations more limited in scope or complexity, International Advantage® Package Plus provides packaged coverages on a single policy form plus a limited number of admitted local policy placements, including:
- Commercial General Liability, Contingent Auto, Employers Responsibility (Contingent Employers Liability and Foreign Voluntary Compensation) with automatic Executive Assistance® Services, automatic Emergency Political Repatriation/ Relocation, automatic Kidnap & Extortion, automatic International AD&D, Medical Expense, Property & Business Income
- For educational institutions, option for International Medical/ AD&D and Executive Assistance® Services for students and chaperone
- Guaranteed cost/no deductible policy with one or more local admitted polices
International Advantage® Defense Base Act Program addresses the needs of U.S. contractors and sub-contractors performing work overseas under U.S. Government contracts, including:
- Required Defense Base Act statutory coverage plus ACE Employers Liability repatriation
- Option for seamless coordination with stand alone International Advantage® Package Plus and Enterprise Solutions, as well as stand alone ACE A&H AD&D, Medical and ACE Kidnap & Extortion products
International Advantage® for multinationals targets:
- Manufacturers
- Contractors
- Service Industries
- Exporters
- Non-profits
- Specialty Chemical
- High Tech
- Universities
- Financial Institutions
- Energy
- Real Estate Holders including Hospitality
- Professional Services Firms
International Advantage® is offered by a dedicated team of more than 70 international underwriting specialists who are deployed throughout the U.S. This singular focus translates to expert solutions that are tailored to our clients’ global goals.
Our commitment to superior service for International Advantage® programs includes professional program implementation, efficient premium cessions and quality claim management, spearheaded by a team of international account and claim management specialists in the U.S. and supported by ACE Global Network capabilities worldwide. We manage to published global service standards to provide our brokers and clients with consistent and reliable programs that can be customized to their individual requirements.
For more information about ACE GPSSM International Advantage® Product, please contact:
Bryan Tedford
+1 212 209-2235
Bryan.Tedford@acegroup.com
Clint Johnson
+1 212 209-2218
Clinton.Johnson@acegroup.com
Tim Benson
+1 302 476-6343
Timothy.Benson@acegroup.com
© 2011 The ACE Group of Insurance and Reinsurance Companies. This is a product and service summary. Products are underwritten by insurance company subsidiaries of ACE Limited. Coverage may not be available in all jurisdictions and is subject to actual policy language. Non insurance products and services may be provided by independent third parties.

