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Professional Indemnity Insurance Explained
Learn how to protect yourself and your small business with our comprehensive guide to professional indemnity insurance, also known as professional liability insurance.
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There is no limit in the UK as to how much a compensation claim could be. This means a serious case could be in the thousands or even millions of pounds. Professional indemnity insurance protects you by covering the cost of a claim for compensation against you. Even if a court case is unsuccessful, you can claim back the cost of defending yourself in court, and receive legal advice throughout the process.
Depending on your profession, your turn-over and your industry, you’ll want different levels of liability and indemnity insurance. That’s why we’re flexible on the different aspects of our cover and each limit is set by you. We offer professional indemnity insurance ranging from £1 million to £10 million, interest free monthly payments and worldwide cover as required.
Do you need to start trading today, or tendering for a public contract? Call us today for a full requirement review and quote over the phone. Your policy can start immediately. We’ll email you the documents on the same day and send out paper copies within 24 hours.
Professional indemnity insurance is only one part of a complete business insurance package. Depending on what you do and who you employ, you may also require public liability and employers' liability cover. Not to mention tools cover, stock insurance and many more. Speak to us today to understand the best combination of cover to keep your business fully protected.
These are just some of the key features and exclusions, full details will be found in your policy wording.
Unless you’re a lawyer, the world of liability and compensation can be daunting, especially if a claim is being raised against you. Even If you think a claim may be bought against you, we can provide access to legal professionals who can help you right from the beginning.
In terms of your claim, we will talk you through the steps you need to take to prepare and how to further protect yourself. This won’t prejudice your claim either and you won’t need to fill out any paper work until you are ready to make a claim.
Liability and indemnity can be tricky to get your head around. Read our series of helpful guides to help you choose the most relevant cover for your business:
insurance guide
Learn how to protect yourself and your small business with our comprehensive guide to professional indemnity insurance, also known as professional liability insurance.
View insurance guide
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Whether you have one employee or an expanding workforce, employers’ liability insurance is a vital part of your liability insurance for your business.
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Whilst indemnity insurance is not required by law, it is a type of insurance that the vast majority of businesses could not do without. Just having a claim raised against you, regardless of whether it’s founded or even successful, can be timely and very costly. Our professional indemnity cover could not only pay out for a successful compensation claim brought against you but also, it can cover defence costs and provide legal advice even if the claim is not successful. It’s also true that many professional trade organisations and institutions require you to have indemnity insurance before becoming a member.
For their own liability reasons you are unlikely to find an insurance company who will advise you exactly on how much cover you need. It is essentially your responsibility to take out adequate cover, although our advisers can go through your options over the phone and explain how you might want to calculate this cost. Alternatively, many industry organisations or professional bodies will likely be able to offer you advice.
Professionals who send out products, offer advice of some kind, or provide some services from their own home can still cause harm for which they may be liable. For this reason it’s important you don’t make an assumption that you can’t do any damage when tucked away in your own home, and speak with an adviser about your risks.
We can provide public, employers' and product liability packaged together with professional indemnity insurance easily in one package. If you require further business insurances like commercial property insurance, loss of earning, personal accident, stock cover we can provide these too.
When you stop trading or retire we recommend you still have something called ‘run off’ cover. This means that claims raised against you for an event that happened while you were still trading are covered (a claim can be raised any time up to 3 years after the fact). When you are ready we can arrange cover for you for this.
Many of our customers are eligible for a discount on their insurance simply by being a member of a professional association or industry body. What’s more, for many of these, we also offer profession specific policies too. This means you can get specific cover with great discounts! Speak to one of our advisers to find out how much you can save.
If you would prefer to spread the cost of your policy you have the option of setting up a Direct Debit to pay your premium in equal monthly instalments through our preferred provider, Premium Credit Limited (PCL).
To find out more about PCL and direct debit payments, select Direct Debit.
To understand more about how PCL work together with Towergate, please read our Regulatory Information.
If you want to know more about our monthly payment option, please read our dedicated page on Direct Debit.