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Professional liability insurance

Professional liability insurance protects you against your legal liability for losses which of your customers as a result of your negligent advice. Professional compensation is called legally in certain, like legal accounting & financial services, required. It is common in other areas such as management and computer consulting, publishing, technical, and attracted. If you give a Council, which could make you liable, or if you are working in a collaborative arrangement, you should have a suitable professional liability policy.

Their professional liability directive should contain retroactive cover, so that you are insured for all claims in the next 12 months, but also for your work or decisions back to the date you started trading. When you complete the form proposal, you must want any likelihood to reveal a future demand, such as the consortium banks from taking on current or known claim to protect exposure.

Professional compensation insurance works based on 'Claim', and so, if you trade stop to retire or take you a permanent job, it is wise, buy you run off cover for at least 12 months after this is done a claim against you, has done after your policy for work previously.

Employers liability insurance

Liability Act 1969 the employer requires all employers, unless, they are free, at least 5 million GBP caused by work have employers liability insurance with a duly authorized insurer to protect against claims of employees for accidents or illness. In practice, most insurers offer GBP cover at least 10 mill.

The law was amended except very small enterprises with effect from 28 February 2005 using only their owners. As freelance consultant or contractor outside IR35 are active but you will probably have a substitution clause in their contracts. Without employer, you can meet liability insurance to break this clause without the law, so that in practice you should have cover.

There are no hard and fast rules about, as your employees for employers liability insurance essential. People, you, what the present many as independent, as your employees liability insurance can apply for the purposes of the employer; the real relationship with the people who have work for you and the level of control, that you have the work they do for you is important. Even part-time and casual employees can count as your employees.

Public liability insurance

Public liability insurance covers you against accidents to members of the public or property damage that occurs due to one of your business activities. It includes all legal costs.

Even if you are working from home, you need public liability may cover. When customers visit there, the directive will cover you if they injure themselves, while they are at your local - it could be something so stupid like tripping over a computer cable. If you regularly work off-site, should the directive to cover this.

Product liability insurance

Product liability insurance covers you against injury or damage caused by defective goods. This can be important if you produce, repair, install or even were retail; a small damaged you can open up to massive claims. Manufacturing costs, you should protect their policy against claims of safety, quality, mercy and compensation.

Property & contents insurance

You have to your business property, including premises, operating and office equipment, storage, to make computers and devices. If you are working from home, you need to check that equipment for business purposes through your home contents insurance is covered or specific business insurance to purchase. In response to a growing trend in the home not offer work, a growing number of insurers buildings and contents policies that specifically include cover for business stock and equipment.

IR35 & legal expenses insurance

IR35 insurance pays to cover costs to professional fees in connection with investigations into tax;

* Income tax self assessment full requests

* Corporate income tax self assessment full and aspect requests

* Employer compliance disputes with regard to the P11D, PAYE and NIC

* VAT and IR35 disputes, S660A requests.

Income insurance

Income protection insurance systems can be used to staff in the long term illness, pay their salaries during the period of inability to cover. Executive income protection provides coverage for salary and dividends.

Health insurance

As a freelancer you do to not the safety net of a permanent employer paid sick leave. It is health insurance should cover your personal spending altogether work its value over a longer period, private health insurance can make a lot of sense. Faster treatment times by private care helps you avoid lengthy layoffs. Some guidelines numbers a lump sum of a critical illness. It is advisable to apply for medical insurance before you severe symptoms.

Other types of free insurance

* Business interruption (or consequential damage) insurance compensates you additional costs and trade lost profits, interruption to, say your business, is suffering from a fire.

* Tax loss insurance refunded the tax, penalty and interest losses from a HMRC judgment against you the additional tax to be paid, in particular in terms of IR35.

* Legal costs insurance includes legal costs including attorneys fees and court costs. Many directives provide legal advice on a telephone hotline.

* Key man insurance can your company less vulnerable to the illness or death of the most important employees make.

Insurance tips

* It is more cost effective, employer liability, public liability and business equipment purchase insurance as a single package.

* Professional liability depends on the type of business, your sales and the number of employees insurance premiums. Underestimate not the protection level of professional liability, that you need.

* Read the fine print in any policy documents. Any clause, you do not understand the question.

* Be scrupulously honest with your insurance company information about your business and claims back.