A Business Insurance Pack is designed to cover your business’s assets and equipment against events such as fire, storms and theft. Professionals and small businesses have varied needs when it comes to the assets they need to protect, and a Business Insurance Pack can be structured to meet these varying needs.
Below, we’ve outlined the various sections of cover under a Business Insurance Pack, and explained what they cover in more detail…
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A Business Insurance pack provides ten sections of cover to choose from depending on your business’s requirements. Let’s look at each section in detail and understand what it covers…
Section 1 Property
This section covers your business premises including Buildings and Contents or Stock kept at your premises.
Building:
This cover is available if you own or have contractual requirements as a tenant to insure the building. The policy will pay up to the cost to repair or rebuild the building if it is physically damaged, lost or destroyed by events such as fire, storm, earthquake, or malicious damage.
Contents:
Contents includes all contents at the premises including equipment, furniture, and any fixtures and fittings that remain at the premises. When determining the value to insure, an asset register kept by you or your accountant can be a good starting point.
Stock:
Stock means all stock in trade, your merchandise and packaging at the premises, including raw materials, work in progress and property of others held on consignment.
Section 2 Burglary
This section covers your Contents, Stock and other property that is at risk of being stolen from the premises by forcible or violent entry. If you select this cover, you will be required to nominate a sum insured against the relevant property that you need cover for. In deciding the sum insured, consider what items within your business premises could easily be taken, such as stock, laptops, or other equipment.
Section 3 Glass
The Glass section provides cover for the actual cost of replacing and fixing glass into its frame or in its usual location at your premises if it is broken accidentally or damaged. It can cover windows, glass doors, showcases and glass counters.
Section 4 General Property
This policy section provides cover for the cost of repairing or replacing items that suffer accidental physical damage, destruction, or loss. Some of the items that can be covered under the General Property section are portable items such as your laptop, mobile phone, tablet and other equipment such as a massage table, gym equipment, therapy items.
Section 5 Business Interruption – Income section
This is an important cover section since it is able to cover your loss of income if you’re unable to operate your business due to any insured damage that happens at your premises. Remember, insured damage means damage to your property when both the property that is damaged and the cause of the damage is covered by your policy under one or more of the following cover sections: Property; Burglary; Money; Glass or General Property; For example, if your business contents are damaged by a fire, and you’re unable to operate while they are being repaired or replaced, then during the time you’re out of action, your loss of income will only be covered under Business Interruption section if your policy included cover for the contents.
Section 6 Money
The cover available under this policy section is not just limited to cash, but also includes cover for bank notes, currency notes, negotiable cheques, authorised gift vouchers, and more.
Section 7 Liability
Public Liability is designed to cover you if you’re held legally liable for personal injury, property damage or an advertising liability to a third party in connection with your business. It is an important cover for any business that involves interacting with members of the public. Before you select this cover, it is worth checking whether you may already have this cover under other policies. For example, if you hold the Aon Professional Indemnity Insurance, this policy includes cover for Public and Products Liability. If in doubt, please speak to your Aon broker who will be able to assist you.
Section 8 Engineering Plant
If your business owns engineering plant such as boiler and unfired pressure plant or pressure pipe systems, this section provides cover for the cost to repair or replace them if they suffer any sudden or unforeseen physical damage or breakdown. This section is only intended to cover such plant and equipment which are located at your premises permanently, and not those items such as computers or other excluded plant There is also an optional extension available to cover deterioration of stock in cold storage. (*)
Section 9 Electronic Equipment
This section provides two cover options for your electronic items such as laptops, computers, and other office equipment. Material loss or damage (Part A) covers the cost of repairing or replacing the insured property that is damaged at the listed premises or within Australia. Breakdown (Part B) covers the cost of repairing or replacing damage caused by a breakdown. There is an optional extension available under both parts for the costs of restoring electronic data or software that are physically damaged as a result of insured damage that occurs to the property on which such data can be stored. . (*)
(*) All items covered under the Engineering Plant and Electronic Equipment sections must be insured for new replacement value in order to avoid the potential application of the underinsurance clause. Both the Engineering Plant & Electronic Equipment sections do not cover you for expendable items, and parts that are normally not re-used and require frequent or periodic replacement.
Section 10 Employee Fraud
This section provides cover up to the sum insured for the value of any property, including money, belongs to you or which you are legally responsible for, that is lost as a direct result of employee fraud.
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