Fast to buy, and the form is where the trouble is.
Thimble sells on-demand liability that is genuinely quick to buy. We have found the forms do not stand up to a serious contract, and the service is hard to reach when something goes wrong.
Tell us the situation.
One licensed human replies the same business day — not five agents, not an auto-responder. If the policy you have is already the right one, we will tell you.
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Send us what you have. We’ll tell you if it’s right.
Your current policy paperwork, a renewal notice, or nothing at all. A licensed agent reads it and replies the same business day.
What Thimble is, and what to check.
On-demand liability
Short-term general liability bought by the job, the day or the month, from an app.
Without it — For a one-off event or a single short job this is a real product and it works.
The form, which is the problem
Read what the certificate actually grants before you rely on it for a contract.
Without it — A certificate that a general contractor or a venue will not accept is the same as having no coverage, and finding out on the day is the usual way.
What we would use instead
An annual policy from a standard market, which is frequently not much more money.
Without it — Once you are buying several short policies a year, the annual one is usually cheaper and always broader.
What people ask us about Thimble.
Is Thimble legit?
Yes. Thimble is a real program selling real policies, and the policies are issued by insurance companies whose names appear on the policy paperwork, so the paper is real and the claim is paid by the issuing carrier, which you can look up by that name. What it sells is short-term liability by the hour or the day, bought from an app. Our reservation has never been legitimacy. It is whether the form does what your contract requires, which on a serious job it often does not.
What is our honest view?
We have found the forms thin against serious contract requirements and the service difficult when something needs fixing. For a genuinely one-off job it can be the right call; as the insurance a business runs on, we would not.
What should I check before relying on it?
Send the certificate to whoever is demanding the insurance before the job, and read the endorsements for additional insured and waiver of subrogation wording. Those are the two things that decide whether a certificate is accepted.
Why go through a broker instead of buying direct?
Because it does not cost you anything, which is the part that surprises people. Broker compensation is built into the carrier’s rate whether you use one or not: buying direct does not remove the cost, it removes the person being paid to be on your side of it.
Also in this family
Commercial insurance is 96% of what we do — it is not a department here, it is the whole business. Not ready to talk? The guides answer the questions this page raises in more depth. Already insured with us and need a certificate or a policy change? Ask the service team rather than starting a quote — it is faster and it goes to the people whose job it is. We also write home and auto, which is usually cheaper alongside the business policy than apart from it.
Handed a lease, a vendor packet or a client contract with insurance requirements? Paste it into the COI Requirements Decoder to see what each one means for your business, or read what the requirements mean.