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Different Types Of Business Insurance To Consider

Business insurance has many parts to the insurance policy. Your small business can get the very basic liability insurance and property insurance to protect your employees and business as well as commercial property. However, as a business owner, you should be more informed about the other types of business insurance available and why these types of insurance are available. Buying business insurance is all about risk management, so make sure you think about more of the risks that may affect more than just your commercial property.

For example, business insurance could protect your product or protect your business financial deals and contracts. Business insurance could include what is called a product-liability insurance. Product-liability insurance means that your business insurance covers the manufacturer of a product. If your business manufactures product and then puts the product out for sale and the product is defective, your business could face a lawsuit from the distributors who purchased the product from your business and/or from the customers who purchased and used the product. This type of business insurance is vital to the type of business who sells makeup product or cosmetic products or pharmaceutical product, for example. If the product harms a customer because of defective product, the blame comes back to your business and your business is faced with legal expenses. Product-liability insurance as part of business insurance agenda can protect your business from or help your business cover legal expenses in such cases.

Another type of business insurance is surety-bonds insurance. This means that the insurance can help guarantee your business agreement. If you have a business deal that you have to write so many songs so that the record company makes so much money, or your business contracts to build a certain number of apartment complexes, but the economy turns your business deal upside down and you can't make enough money to finish the agreed contract, this is where surety-bonds insurance would come in to bail your business out or help with the expenses of finishing the deal. This type of business insurance would help you to have other business contracts and customers in the future as well as the business insurance saving you from legal fees that may arise in your business not fulfilling your end of the bargain.

When considering business insurance, a business owner doesn't often think about life insurance as part of their business insurance agenda. However, if you have an important business partner or you are that important business partner or maybe you have a very important employee that runs the main part of your business. What do you do if that person dies? Your business success and moving forward with your business would be difficult. Life insurance with the business listed as the beneficiary would cover financial expenses in finding a replacement for that business partner.

Making sure you are informed of different types of business insurance coverage would help you in your decisions of risk management for your business success. Remember that business insurance is more than just protecting your commercial property. Business Insurance.

by: Branda Calija




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