General Liability Insurance

Protecting your business against financial loss is accomplished in several different ways, including getting the insurance coverage needed to fully safeguard your daily operations against the losses associated with property damage or bodily injury. General liability insurance delivers the protection you need for every aspect of your business.

What Does General Liability Insurance Cover?

Your business needs complete protection against a variety of unfortunate circumstances. Therefore, business liability insurance provides several different levels of protection, including each of the following aspects:

• Bodily injury – coverage for injuries that you are legally liable for regarding other individuals
• Defense costs – protection for the legal expenses involved in defending your company against lawsuits
• Medical payments – coverage for expenses incurred when bodily injuries take place during regular business processes
• Personal and advertising injury – protects your company against financial loss related to claims of libel and slander that are unrelated to your business services
• Property damage – coverage for damages to property for which your business has legal responsibility

Circumstances Necessitating General Liability Insurance

Protecting your business against third party claims is an essential aspect of keeping your company solvent. Commercial liability insurance safeguards your company’s financial assets against claims associated with medical costs, bodily injury, and damages to another individual’s property. Whether or not an accident or injury occurring on your premises or through the actions of one of your employees is your fault or not, your company needs the type of financial protection that can safeguard your business livelihood.

You should consider obtaining this type of protection for your business if any of the following circumstances apply to your professional services:

• You or your employees have access to your client’s equipment.
• The company or individual with whom you are entering into a business agreement requires you to obtain it.
• Someone in your company visits a client’s place of business.
• A client visits your place of business.
• You or one of your employees speaks or writes about a client’s business.
• Your company utilizes a third-party location to conduct business-related activities.