AXA today announced plans to expand its service offerings in Canada. Beginning immediately, the company will make available a comprehensive portfolio of customized art insurance products and related services to meet the growing demands of individual art collectors, museums, galleries, corporations, galleries, trusts, traveling exhibitions and artists in the Canadian marketplace.

Building on the successes and expertise of AXA Art, the group’s global art insurance specialist, AXA will offer in Canada customized policies to insure objects in every active area of serious collecting, from paints, drawings and sculpture to rare stamps and coins, antique furnishings, decorative art objects, vintage wine, rare books to vintage vehicles and emerging collectibles.

AXA’s relationships with preferred Canadian-based brokers will play a key role in service delivery. Canadian consumers will benefit from the synergistic relationship between AXA Art and the various entities of AXA in Canada. This relationship paves the way for access to an impressive art and insurance knowledge base backed by the strength and financial stability of the AXA brand.

Enhanced service benefits will be augmented by the proficiency of 50 art historians combined with the expertise of renowned curators, appraisers, shippers, handlers and tax consultants around the world.

In addition, AXA Art’s global relationships extends its competencies to information and guidance on art display, restoration, loss prevention, security, fire protection, market valuation, proactive planning and instant disaster recovery.

In Canada, the company’s art insurance product and service offerings will include:

  • Broad, all-risk worldwide coverage;
  • Large and small capacity insurance;
  • Blanket location coverage;
  • Automatic coverage on newly acquired property of up to 25% of total policy limit within a 90-day reporting obligation;
  • Claims processing;
  • Evaluations that assess the current market values of clients’ collections;
  • Loss prevention advice and disaster planning;
  • Transportation, shipping and handling consultation;
  • Fine art collection schedules (inventory and values of all items in your collection); and
  • Curatorial and collection management services.