Liability insurance covers the costs of legal fees, including court costs and the resulting award, if any is made. Imagine the peace of mind you’d have being free from worry about the attorney costs as the liability case grinds on—and if you’ve got something to take, the plaintiff’s attorneys will often make sure it does.

Liability insurance is appropriate for any business that could face potential lawsuits. There are four distinct types that you may need, depending on your business, and your tolerance for risk of financial loss:

• Personal Liability
• Business Liability
• Professional Liability
• Public Liability

There are other risk that may be covered, including:

• Bodily injury should a client trip and fall over your briefcase, or lose footing on a slippery floor, and you’re found legally liable for their injury.
• Property damage and data loss should you accidentally spill coffee on a client’s server that causes data loss, or a tree falls on their car in your parking lot.
• Personal injury should an employee talk to a fellow employee of the shop about one of your clients in a false and unflattering way. The client learns of this discussion and sues for slander. We will cover the subsequent claim, up to your General Liability policy’s limits of liability, and pay for an attorney to defend you if necessary.

Business liability insurance is not designed to protect you from everything, to help keep costs down. For example, business liability does not cover you against claims of negligence, even if it isn’t you or your business’ fault. This is because not every business needs that variety of protection, so to make it part of the policy would over insure lots of businesses, and make the coverage needlessly expensive.

You should consider business liability insurance coverage, also called commercial general liability insurance, if either you or your employees:

• Interact with clients face to face. If you make sales calls or visit clients at their place of business, their home, or they visit your location
• Have access to equipment that’s not yours. Business liability is ideal for IT professionals, electricians, other repair or technical services.
• Represent your client’s business to other companies.
  Use third-party locations for any business related activities. Business liability can cover architects, designers, wedding planners, etc.
• If you are required to maintain general liability insurance as part of a contract.

Don’t be. Our firm specializes in covering professional services, and local businesses like yours. We have everything you need right here, including:

• Monthly payment options to help spread out your payments so you can better manage your cash flow
• Coverage of temporary staff, full-time employees, and independent contractors
• Past work covering unforeseen claims arising from work completed before you were even insured, to a pre-agreed date
• Worldwide coverage as long as the claim is filed in the U.S., one of its territories or Canada
• Claims responsiveness when time is of the essence, especially in the event of an insurance claim
• Tailored coverage for the specific risks of your field and industry
• Knowledgeable agents who provide exceptional, passionate service
• Coverage for contracts satisfying most standard contract insurance requirements
• Fast and simple quotes, helpful agents, and immediate coverage