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Recruitment Agency Insurance

Professional indemnity, employers’ liability, public liability and products liability cover for recruitment agencies.

  • Flexible package policy designed to protect your agency’s needs
  • Split your payment into 10 monthly Direct Debit instalments
  • UK-based support
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Why choose recruitment agency insurance with Towergate?

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Flexible cover

Our flexible policy means that we can find the cover that best suits you, with option covers such as property, business indemnity, personal accident and more

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Specialised recruitment agency cover

Specialist insurance that has been developed to cater for major sectors and the differing roles

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Worldwide cover available

Cover can be extended to worldwide for employees working outside of the UK

About recruitment agency insurance

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Flexible recruitment agency policies

We offer bespoke policies that are designed to adapt to the evolving contractual requirements that recruitment agencies must adhere to.

Liability

Liability cover for recruitment agency

Employers’ liability, public and products liability are included as part of our recruitment agency policy.

Our policy has a £10,000,000 limit of indemnity to help give you peace of mind that you have the right level of protection.

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Professional indemnity insurance for recruitment agency

Included as standard in the professional indemnity section of the policy. In the event of any errors and omissions of temporary workers when on placement at third party premises, vicarious liability for supplied personnel is required and we can extend the policy to include this cover.

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Legal over for recruitment agency

Underwritten by ARAG this policy comes with £100k worth of legal cover meaning you and your assets are protected when it comes to lawsuits and compensation claims that may arise. This could also relate to employment disputes and compensation awards, as well as contract.

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Insurance for care recruitment agencies

We have a specialist in-house team who focus on insurance for recruitment agencies in the care sector.

This includes care workers and domiciliary care supply staff (supply of staff to hospitals, nursing home and care homes).

When you need to make a claim, we'll guide you through the process and get your claim settled as quickly as possible.

  • Find your insurance documents and make sure you have all your information at hand, including your policy number.
  • Call the claims team on 0330 123 5342 and explain exactly what happened.
  • Provide photos if requested to help us understand what happened as quickly as we can.
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Recruitment agency insurance FAQs

This policy can cover agencies that supply anything from secretaries to safety critical rail workers including but not limited to:-

  • Care workers/Domiciliary Care Supply Staff (Supply of staff to Hospitals, nursing homes, care homes)
  • Logistics/Supply Drivers/HGV Supply Staff
  • Manufacturing Supply Staff
  • Industrial Supply Staff
  • Warehousing Supply Staff

Legal Liability extends to both Agency employees and Placed Personnel

Vicarious Liability is a rule of law that imposes strict liability on employers for the wrongdoings of their employees. Generally, an employer can be held liable for any wrongful act committed while an employee is conducting their duties. Legal Liability arising from errors or omissions of temporary workers.

Legal expenses protection against specified civil and criminal incidents in connection with the business.

We have provided a summary of the key features of the policy, above. For details of the terms and conditions applicable, please refer to the policy wording, which are available during the quotation process.

If you prefer to spread the cost of your annual premium, we offer a quick and easy direct debit scheme. When you choose to pay premiums in instalments, you will be paying under a Premium Finance plan. We will give you full details of the finance provider, and the additional cost of finance, when we provide you with your payment plan quotation. This will include the total payable, the number of monthly instalments and the cost of each, as well as the representative APR.

If you would like to know more about our monthly payment option, please visit our dedicated Direct Debit page.

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