Lockton Affinity CCW Insurance Review [2024]: Written by a Firearms Attorney!

Lockton Affinity is a big name in the insurance space, especially in the firearms industry. In fact, they are who I regularly recommend as business insurance for new FFLs.

They have now added CCW Insurance coverage, or more correctly called “Personal Firearm Liability Insurance,” to their product line.

In this Lockton Affinity CCW Insurance review, we’re going to break down their coverages, and costs, and explain some of the terms of their policy so that you can make an informed decision.

What is Lockton Affinity?

Lockton Affinity is an insurance company that now offers coverage for your legal protection for self-defense scenarios. Although this coverage isn’t really “CCW insurance,” it’s the easiest way to explain what it is.

If you use your firearm in self-defense, it can be VERY expensive to defend yourself after the fact. Unfortunately, when the gunfight ends, the legal fight begins.

If you need to defend against a murder or manslaughter charge, expect to pay at least a few hundred thousand dollars. Mind you, this may apply even if you do everything correctly.

As an attorney, one of the first things I tell my clients when they’re trying to figure out how to handle a particular problem is “it’s often better to avoid a fight than it is to win a fight.” That’s because “winning” can be VERY expensive when legal costs are involved.

How Much Does Lockton Affinity CCW Insurance Cost?

Lockton Affinity’s coverage plans cover different amounts depending on how much you pay for each plan’s premiums.

Here’s a table of the different coverage amounts and costs:

*reimbursement only

Lockton Affinity Self-Defense Coverage

Making a good comparison of available CCW self-defense insurance providers can be complicated.

Too often, people look at the fees for different tiers of concealed carry coverage and then compare that to the total dollar amount of coverage.

This is a poor way to compare CCW insurance companies.

Why?

Well, because there’s SO MUCH more to what a company offers (and doesn’t) when you look at their actual contracts and legal terms and conditions.

I know you don’t want to sort through that legal mumbo jumbo – so we do it for you.

Lockton Affinity Review – Our Take

For any concealed carry insurance company that you may be looking at, we strongly recommend looking for three basic ccw insurance requirements:

1. The ability to choose your own attorney,
2. Money up-front, and
3. A daily allowance to help offset time off work

Lockton Affinity only has two out of the three. We’ll cover each.

What we like about Lockton Affinity: We like that Lockton Affinity allows you to choose your own attorney – this is a big deal and our first of the three basic requirements.

Believe it or not, there are options for CCW insurance that require you to use the attorney they choose. We haven’t used them so we can’t possibly give an informed decision on the quality of their legal representation.

Another thing that is important to us is our second basic requirement, getting paid upfront. We’ll cover this below in the section about what we don’t like.

Thankfully, Lockton Affinity does provide a “per diem” to cover your lost wages while on trial of up to $250 per day. That’s the good news and our third requirement. However, there’s some bad news with this part too and we’ll explore that next.

What we don’t like about Lockton Affinity: Unfortunately, Lockton Affinity only reimburses criminal defense costs. This is a big red flag for us as one of the major reasons people seek out personal liability firearm protection is that they won’t have the hundreds of thousands of dollars that might be needed to defend a criminal case brought against them.

With this policy, you’d need to have all of that money upfront on your own in order to be reimbursed later.

Even worse, the daily per diem we covered above is part of their reimbursement and it also comes out of the total amount they’ll pay.

The reimbursement alone is enough to earn our “do not recommend” grade but add to that their relatively low criminal defense coverage amounts (of which the $250 per day comes out) and it’s a problem for us.

With the two best ccw insurance companies we recommend offering unlimited coverage for criminal defense cases, it doesn’t sound like a good idea to us to pay near the same amount to get much less coverage (especially when it is only a reimbursement).

Lockton Affinity Pros and Cons