Understanding Contractors Insurance: Key Risks and Coverage
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Property damage can result from various causes, including accidental damage, natural disasters, or equipment malfunctions.
Commercial property insurance helps protect both your building and its contents. It covers equipment, inventory, furniture, computers, and even outdoor signs and landscaping. If you suffer a covered loss, this insurance can help with repair costs to get you back in business quickly.
It is a liability insurance policy that safeguards you and your business against common claims that may arise while working at a job site. CGL insurance can cover expenses and legal fees if your business becomes involved in a lawsuit.
Third-party liability claims can arise when someone other than your employees gets injured due to your work. This can include accidents on construction sites, such as scaffold falls or injuries from falling objects. In such cases, you may be responsible for medical expenses, lost wages, and compensation for pain and suffering.
As a contractor, your tools and equipment are vital to your business. Tools and equipment insurance covers costs if transportable items are lost, stolen, or destroyed. This policy protects your assets, whether they’re in storage, in transit, or left at a client’s location.
It covers hand tools, power tools, safety gear, and even heavy construction equipment like bulldozers and excavators.
Business interruption insurance covers lost income when a covered disaster forces you to temporarily close your business.
It can help compensate for lost profits, cover employee wages, and pay relocation costs if necessary. This coverage is crucial for contractors working on tight timelines, as even short interruptions can lead to significant financial losses.
Although not every construction project has a massive environmental impact, the liability for environmental damage is increasing. Failing to secure a construction site or install pipes correctly properly can result in extensive harm in the future.
Pollution liability insurance covers expenses related to clean-up, bodily injuries such as respiratory illnesses, and property damages like water damage caused by pollution or toxic substances generated during work on an insured construction site.
Whether you’re undertaking a small-scale, local project or a larger, public-facing development, ensuring you are capable and qualified to do the job correctly is essential.
A surety bond is a great way to ensure that you meet all of the qualifications for the job and are prepared to complete it to the best of your ability.
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What insurance should contractors obtain during the construction phase?
- Commercial general liability insurance
- Builder’s risk insurance
- Tools and equipment insurance
- Equipment breakdown insurance
- Commercial property insurance
- Commercial vehicle insurance
Builder’s Risk Insurance
Builder’s risk insurance, also known as course of construction insurance, helps protect buildings under construction from property damage due to fire, lightning, hail, explosions, theft, and vandalism.
It covers materials, supplies, and equipment on-site, in transit, or at other locations. This policy is crucial for property owners, general contractors, subcontractors, and architects.
Why you need errors and omissions coverage (E&O).
If your business involves design-build operations, there is a potential professional risk that may not be covered by your Commercial General Liability (CGL) policy. In the event of a project delay or financial harm caused by a professional error, clients may seek compensation from you.
Contractors Errors & Omissions (E&O) insurance is designed to address these situations and provide coverage for such claims.
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