Errors And Omissions Insurance Explained
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Unfortunately everyone makes mistakes. So for this reason to protect businesses and the people who work in these businesses, errors and omissions insurance is available as part of your business insurance portfolio.
This type of insurance is also referred to as E & O insurance or malpractice insurance and is predominately used by business professionals such as doctors, dentist, real estate agents, engineers and also lawyers. E & O insurance will cover the business and the individual in the event of a legal case being brought against them.
All professionals need to consider this coverage. If you provide work for a client that can suffer if you make an error or omission, then this insurance is for you.
E & O policies can be written in two forms, claims made or claims made and reported. These claims have a retroactive date, meaning that claims made on an event that happened before the policy date will not be covered. Each practice or agency is completely different, therefore requiring different E & O insurance. A doctor would need different inclusions in their policies compared to a Real Estate agent. The insurance industry is a very competitive field and a business needs to make sure that the insurance company has the practice’s best interests in mind and will be able to cover them fully.
The cost of E & O insurance varies greatly from company to company. E & O insurance will cover a company through judgments, settlements and defense cost and will possibly save a company thousands of dollars, even if the case is deemed groundless.
A business owner needs to work with their insurance underwriter so that they are offered the best priced policy that will cover them if an incident was to occur. When an errors and omissions insurance policy is put into place a business needs to make sure that they keep their business running well, to make sure their procedures are all in place and that all employees understand these procedures. With this insurance policy in place the business does not want to lower their standards as the threat of a malpractice claim could put the business and individuals into bankruptcy or the business may have to close down.
