A public liability insurance is a safety net for a businessman as it protects him from unexpected expenses like accident cover for customers or a third party when they are on his premises.
When you purchase a policy, you are tightening your safety net so that you can fight off claims more affordably.
There are different ways in which liability insurance will help you.
Damage to the client, a third person or to their property on your premises In businesses that witness a lot of customer or third party movement through their premises, there is always the risk of accidents taking place to the customers or their properties.
They may fall accidentally and hurt themselves or some heavy object may fall on their vehicles parked outside your store and cause damage.
Since the accident happened on your premises, you have to take responsibility of the mishap, especially if the accident took place because of the things in your store.
Customers will demand compensation and you will be obliged to pay.
In such circumstances, having an insurance policy will be very helpful as it will save you them from making large compensations at a time.
Public liability insurance will help you pay your customers on the condition that the damage was not intentional.
There are many kinds of businesses that require a businessman to go to the client's premises to work.
Some examples of this kind of work are building repairs or renovation, house cleaning services, pressure cleaning services and industrial maintenance works.
In all these works, there is a chance that you or your employees may cause damage to the client or to his property.
A person working on an elevation may accidentally drop a tool or some other material and cause damage.
It is also possible that the people in the house will stumble over your equipment unintentionally.
When wholesalers go to supply material to the retailers, it is possible that the retailer's property be damaged due to negligent loading and unloading of the goods.
Accidents are also possible during outdoor shoots and construction works.
Whenever there is an accidental mishap of this kind, public liability insurance comes in handy.
It covers all damage expenses on the client property, thus providing a good financial cover to the policy holder.
All kinds of legal expenses incurred during accidents on the business premises It has to be kept in mind that public liability insurance does not cover for employee claims.
This means that, if an employee happens to get hurt on your premises or on the premises of a client, then public liability insurance will not cover for his claim.
For that, the business owner will have to purchase another policy for employee liabilities.
In all other cases, this insurance provides full cover.
Liability insurance not only covers the amount that has to be paid as compensation, but also includes all kinds of expenses incurred on legal services.
In fact, the expenses incurred on legal services can be a lot higher than the expense incurred in accident.
Experienced and efficient attorneys are expensive.
To be able to hire them, you need to pay large amounts of fees.
If the lawsuit gets prolonged, then the charges of hiring an attorney also increase proportionally.
It is very difficult for a small businessman to be able to afford all the legal expenses without support of liability insurance.
There have been cases where businesses have shut shop doe to high lawsuits.
Therefore, it is important to have a cover for the business that can deal with the extra emergency expenses.