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Adjacent risks / CARMA field guide

# Labs, technology, and ancillary businesses need their own operation story.

Cannabis-adjacent does not mean every account has the same exposures, coverage needs, or available markets.

Prepared by [CARMA Insurance](/about/)

Reading time 1 min read Content updated August 12, 2026 Carma Insurance LLC [Business entity NPN 21134854](/licensing-disclosures/) Related CARMA expertise [Zimraan Shikari, Director, Underwriting](/experts/zimraan-shikari/) [How we publish guidance](/editorial-standards/)

Account brief

## Use this guide to focus the account discussion

**Why it matters**

Ancillary businesses can have professional, technology, property, product, contract, and cannabis-related exposures in different combinations.

**Question to resolve**

Describe services, customers, products, data, contracts, professional responsibility, and dependency on the cannabis supply chain.

**Record to prepare**

A description of services, products, customers, contracts, and direct cannabis activity

[Discuss the operation with CARMA](/contact-underwriting/)
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## Why this matters to the submission

Ancillary businesses can have professional, technology, property, product, contract, and cannabis-related exposures in different combinations. The submission should describe the actual service and customer relationship.

## Questions to put on the record

- Describe services, customers, products, data, contracts, professional responsibility, and dependency on the cannabis supply chain.

- Separate direct plant-touching activity from technology, consulting, testing, logistics, or equipment roles.

- Confirm that CARMA can consider the account in its state and for the requested coverage.

## Records that define the operation

- A description of services, products, customers, contracts, and direct cannabis activity

- Information about data, equipment, testing, logistics, consulting, or other professional responsibility

- Requested coverage, important dependencies, past losses, and current controls

## What this guide can help with

This guide helps organize the account discussion. It does not confirm eligibility, available markets, coverage, pricing, licensing, or an outcome for a specific account.

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