Insurance and Risk Management Built for Design Firms

Trusted by architects, engineers, and construction managers for more than 30 years. We provide specialized insurance solutions, exclusive carrier programs, and proactive risk management support that helps design firms strengthen contracts, improve operations, and protect their professional services with confidence.

2026

Webinar Series

Stay ahead of the risks that affect your projects. Our complimentary monthly webinars give design professionals practical guidance on contracts, claims trends, and operational exposures—helping your team make informed decisions and protect your services with confidence.

Design Professional Risk Advisors

Principal

Jeff Cavignac

Principal

Kelly Potter

Risk Advisor

Mike Olson

Risk Advisor

Paul Broussard

Resources for Design Professionals

Our Team, Your Partners

We believe long-term client relationships require long-term teams. Cavignac is advisor-led and privately owned, with many professionals who have dedicated years — and often decades — to serving architecture and engineering firms. That tenure creates continuity, institutional knowledge, and consistent execution that directly benefits the firms we advise.

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We Understand Your Industry.

Our dedicated Design Professional Practice Group has decades of experience working with design firms. We understand the unique risks architects and engineers face and stay closely connected to current industry trends, contract standards, and delivery methods.

Our team specializes in placing all lines of insurance coverage for design firms, including structuring practice policies, project-specific policies, captives, and specialized endorsements and coverage options tailored to design professionals. Beyond insurance placement, we provide regular client training and targeted risk management resources designed to help prevent claims and protect long-term firm value.

Trusted industry expertise.

In order to effectively manage risk, you need to understand each client and their specific operations as well as their industry in general. We make it our job to understand your company and your industry.

We’ve served Design Professionals since 1992, with a focused expertise that gives our architectural, engineering, and construction management clients a critical advantage. As the exclusive broker for two of the top A&E insurance companies, we’re experts at negotiating appropriate coverage and pricing.

Construction carries an abundance of risk and demands a pragmatic and proactive approach. Our industry-specific surety, insurance, and risk control resources are designed to lower our contractors’ exposures to loss and drive down their total cost of risk.

Real estate ownership and operation can be complex. We understand how to structure the contractual risk transfer that runs between lenders, owners and tenants. Our deep carrier relationships and decades of real estate experience ensures you get the right coverage with the right company at the lowest cost.

Every Real Estate Development is different and requires a customized risk management, surety and insurance program. Our expertise in construction, design and development uniquely qualifies us to tailor the appropriate coverage and negotiate favorable rates for your development project.

Managing risk within the thin margins of hospitality is always a tricky proposition. We thrive on challenges like this. Our approach reduces the frequency and severity of claims, ensuring our clients get cost-effective insurance with the right safeguards.

Upstream risks, downstream risks, employees, environmental… Manufacturing carries no shortage of risk. From local exposures to international instability, we have a platform that ensures your exposures are analyzed correctly and risk management strategies are implemented to manage those exposures.

Non-profit organizations have more than their share of risks which unfortunately are often misunderstood. Our specialization in this area coupled with our comprehensive approach to risk management ensures you have the right coverage and reduces the frequency and severity of claims.

Waterfront businesses are awash in risk. Water, heights, confined spaces, chemicals…and an entirely different set of federal laws. Our specialists help navigate the unique risks faced by our Marine clients.

Working with the U.S. government entails a distinct array of risks. Our systematic risk management and surety approach proactively addresses the exposures that government contractors face.

We understand the unique risks faced by CPAs, law firms, and other professional service providers. We have access to the major insurance companies that focus on this area. Our specialized expertise combined with our market access gives you a key competitive advantage.

Keeping students, faculty, and facilities protected is critical for schools and universities. Our customized insurance programs are designed to help those shaping our next generation.

Technology moves fast but our advisors move faster. We evaluate your exposures and help you navigate the myriad emerging and traditional risks that a tech business entails.

We help you better understand the present so you can have confidence in the future.