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Professional Indemnity Insurance Is Not The Only Insurance That Will Help A Business Advance (Page 1 of 2)
Insurance coverage can be a tricky process. You cannot just buy a policy and expect it to fulfil all of your needs. There is a more than fair chance that the policy you buy will lack something that you will find essential in the long run. The opposite could also occur. The insurance that you choose could include coverage or policy that you know without a shadow of a doubt will never be of any use to you. As you look at insurance policies that are being offered by different agencies you will begin to realise that a lot of them are set up the way that they are so that their price can be inflated.
It is important to be careful about what sort of insurance you finally decide on. That is why your best bet is to go with a company that will allow you the chance to pick and choose what goes into your coverage package.
In many cases, whether or not you can have a certain type of coverage is completely reliant on whether the bank approves you for it. You have to meet a number of requirements before you can get certain types of insurance.
Here is an example. If you open up a new business and you decide that you want to turn it into a restaurant, the building will have to fill certain characteristics. You will need a kitchen, a walk in freezer, a certain number of emergency exits and windows, there also needs to be a sprinkler system in case of a fire and so on. If you do not fill all of these requirements then your business will not be considered a restaurant and you will not be able to qualify for restaurant insurance.
Another example would be if you were trying to open a hair salon. In a hair salon, you would need to have a space reserved for washing hair. This area would have to be a certain distance away from electrical systems and so on. You would also have a certain amount of floor space depending on how many hair stations you have.
There are also rules to follow before you can be approved to open a day care. Depending on the amount of children that you decide to keep at any given time, the day care will need to be a certain size and there will need to be a specific number of employees there to help watch the children.
Never take for granted that everything that you have done to set up your business is the right thing. Check out what the specifications are for a certain type of business before you waste a lot of time and money by doing things wrong. You do not want to have the opening of your pub, restaurant, or salon put on hold because you cannot get the proper approval for your license.
For the most part, it is easy enough to figure out what you need to get to get approval. The licenses that your business will require will also be fairly easy to figure out. What will take more thought is what other licenses you feel would be beneficial.
It is a little like setting up a pub but failing to get a license that would protect you from any claims that patrons could file against you in the event of injury on your property. A liability license for a pub is just as important as a liquor license would be.