About Petroliana Insurance

Petroliana Insurance is a specialty division of Contractors Choice Agency, an insurance agency founded in 2005 and dedicated to placing hard-to-write specialty and collectibles risk.

Petroliana is tough to insure correctly. Homeowners policies cap "collectibles" at a few thousand dollars, depreciate values, and exclude the breakage of porcelain and glass that's most likely to happen. The real exposures — a chipped die-cut sign, a shattered globe, a pump that tips over in transit, a collection hauled to shows — get handled badly by generalist policies. We know the collectibles markets that write petroliana and how to schedule a collection for what it's actually worth.

Our approach is straightforward: understand your collection, shop specialty carriers that price petroliana fairly on an agreed-value basis, and help you document and schedule your pieces so a claim is paid quickly and in full — at home, in transit, and at shows.