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Like all contractors, IT contractors should get adequate professional indemnity insurance to cover them for certain professional risks. This is a guide to professional indemnity insurance for IT contractors. Whether you’re new to the world of IT consultancy, or you’ve just started working with bigger clients and you’ve realised you need insurance, this guide will…
Flexible Professional Indemnity Insurance Is Now Available. When you start up as a freelancer, it can be difficult to see yourself as a business. After all, you’re just one individual. Like many freelancers, you see yourself as simply one person doing a job. The only thing that matters however is how the law sees you….
Yoga and Pilates Instructors are wellbeing professionals. You want to maintain the highest professional standards so that your students keep coming back. Your customers can have different levels of fitness and ability when they start and may develop at different rates. Your skill at helping them achieve their goals safely is the reason they come….
What Is a Life Coach? A life coach basically supports people to be the best they can. Through lots of advice and plenty of encouragement, life coaches help their clients make key decisions about their personal or professional lives. Can Anyone Become a Life Coach? Please note – life coaching is an unregulated industry. On…
If you offer management consultancy services, you’ll face numerous professional risks in your line of work. This could result in your clients making a claim against you. The right insurance can cover you for most claims, ensuring that you or your business will be able to bounce back from nearly anything. In this post we’ll…
Professional indemnity insurance can be a vital line of defence for all business owners. Whether you’re an independent contractor, a freelancer, a sole-trader, or the managing director of a small business, you should consider getting professional indemnity insurance cover. It affords essential protection no matter what industry you work in. Specialist Industry Guides to Professional…
If you’re a freelance self-employed graphic designer, then the right insurance can cover you for all the risks you might face in your work. Professional indemnity insurance is particularly important for graphic designers. In this post we’ll explain what professional indemnity insurance is and why you need it, before discussing some of the other insurance…
Whatever your trade – whether you’re a builder, an interior designer, a painter decorator, or a plasterer – you should consider getting professional indemnity insurance cover. What Is Professional Indemnity Insurance? All tradesmen have to deal with unsatisfied customers from time to time. But some unsatisfied customers choose to take legal action – especially if…
Both professional indemnity insurance and public liability insurance fall under the business insurance umbrella and are not a legal requirement in the UK. At first glance they both cover compensation, negligence and other claims however it is the type of these claims that makes them so different. Knowing what ‘types’ of claims each insurance product…
Professional Indemnity Insurance Professional indemnity insurance is one of the top types of insurance that business owners and freelancers should have. It protects you in a number of situations, from accidentally offering bad advice to a client to unintentionally infringing on someone’s intellectual property. While you might think that you will never find yourself in…