What Our Business Insurance Actually Covers
Most business owners don't discover what their policy actually covers until they're filing a claim — which is about as fun as discovering your parachute has holes after you've jumped out of the plane. Let's cut through the nonsense and explain what our Monroe NC business insurance actually covers:
General Liability Insurance
This is the foundation of business protection, like the business equivalent of wearing pants in public. It covers:
- Bodily injury (when someone slips on your freshly mopped floor)
- Property damage (when your employee backs the company truck into someone's prized rosebush)
- Personal injury (like defamation, if you accidentally tell the truth about your competitor's terrible service)
Without general liability, your business is one accident away from a financial disaster that could make the 2008 recession look like a minor inconvenience.
Read more about our General Liability Insurance
here.
Commercial Property Insurance
This protects your business stuff: your building (if you own it), equipment, inventory, furniture, that motivational poster about teamwork that nobody actually believes. If it would hurt your business to lose it in a fire, it should be covered here.
But here's what most agents won't tell you: standard commercial property policies have more exclusions than a celebrity prenup. Water damage, flood, earthquake? Probably not covered without special endorsements.
Professional Liability/Errors & Omissions
For when you accidentally give terrible advice or make a mistake that costs your client money. Because even experts mess up sometimes, and in America, "I'm sorry" doesn't prevent lawsuits.
This is especially important for service businesses, consultants, real estate agents, and anyone else whose job involves telling other people what to do.
Workers' Compensation
Required by law in North Carolina if you have three or more employees, this covers medical expenses and lost wages when employees get hurt on the job. Even if the injury involves something ridiculous like stapling their tie to their chest or falling off a chair while reaching for donuts.
Think of it as the "employees discover new and creative ways to hurt themselves" protection.
Commercial Auto Insurance
Your personal auto policy runs away screaming when you use vehicles for business purposes. Commercial auto covers vehicles used for business, whether they're company-owned or employee-owned vehicles used for work.
Read more about our Commercial Auto Insurance here.
Cyber Liability Insurance
For when hackers decide your small business in Monroe looks like a fun target. This covers data breaches, ransomware attacks, and other digital disasters that weren't even a thing 20 years ago.
If your business stores customer data (even just names and emails), accepts credit cards, or would be crippled by ransomware, you need this coverage.