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When starting a business for the first time, it is important to have liability insurance; you never know what to expect, and if something goes wrong you certainly want to be covered. Liability insurance is organized by many different private companies, each of which carry their own business liability insurance rates. In this article, we will talk about what is necessary for making a good selection in your business liability insurer.

The kind of insurance that you get depends entirely on the business that you intend to run. Nearly all businesses carry some form of general insurance, which protects the business from potential bodily injury claims, property damage or false advertisements. Errors and omissions protect against various pitfalls that might befall a professional organization, such as a lawyer, doctor, dentist, real estate agent, accountant or other such businesses. Product liability protects against malfunctioning products and EPLI protects business owners from problems such as sexual harassment and wrongful termination.

You can compare the various insurers’ business liability insurance rates on netquote, which will give you a very good assessment of what you need to know, and then you can go to JD Power and Associates to check whether the business insurance companies you are selecting are in fact good at providing quality customer service and don’t have a significant number of judgments against them.

Business liability insurance rates highly on the the number of priorities that you will want to assign for your business; not only is it very necessary in many cases, it is also a very essential legal requirement.


This Business article was written by Mark Karavan on 2/23/2010