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API offerings

Markel is focused on building and enhancing commercial and personal lines products available via API integrations and the capabilities utilized to support them within a desired platform. We are here to support existing partnerships and new opportunities that leverage API integrations and look to collaborate on digital solutions.

API product availability


Personal lines


Professional liability

  • Employment practices liability (admitted – coming Q1 2025)
  • Miscellaneous E&O (admitted)
  • Registered investment advisors E&O, D&O, cyber (admitted)

Property and casualty

  • Contractors pollution liability (non-admitted)
  • Excess liability (non-admitted all states, admitted in 45)
  • General liability (admitted and non-admitted)
  • Inland marine contractors equipment (non-admitted)
  • Property (non-admitted)
  • Workers compensation (admitted)

API capabilities


  • Submission/quote – creates submission, returns auto decision and bindable quote (when criteria met) and produces quote letter
  • Bind – updates status from quoted to bound, assigns policy number and produces binder
  • Issue – updates status from bound to issue, generates policy forms and endorsements and produces policy packet
  • Documents – obtain quote letter, binder and policy packet
  • Post-bind transaction – creates an endorsement, including cancellation and reinstatement
  • Status – obtain the current status of the transaction
  • Download – get transaction data in standardized format
  • Reference – look up key code and identifier values needed for using APIs

Note: Markel’s API availability may vary with products.

Our developer portal will help streamline integrations


One location for all Markel API documentation and communications:

  • Implementation using OpenAPI spec
  • Documentation for available APIs and routes
  • Testability through portal interface

Visit developer.markel.com