Professional Liability Insurance provides coverage if the professional makes a mistake that causes financial harm to another
The coverage invokes for claims of negligence, breach of contract, or both.
Civil law
Yes, If your client has a claim against you for damages resulting from your professional advice or services, Your professional Liability insurance will provide coverage for the insured's defense cost as well as coverage for the client if you are determined to be liable.
Yes, it's a part of Professional Liability.
Professional liability insurance will protect you against lawsuits arising from your actual professional services rendered. Suppose you have a consulting business, and you are sued for providing incorrect information, that would be a professional liability. Insurance agents and accountants need a similar coverage called Errors and Omissions. Doctors and Lawyers need Malpractice... General liability pertains more to premises coverage for your place of business, to protect you against situations like a slip and fall. General liability would also cover any damages or bodily injury that your business caused while at a customer's location. It would also cover you for your products or completed operations of your business. Most general liability policies specifically exclude professional liability.
Professional Liability Insurance provides coverage in case you are found to be legally responsible to pay damages to your client because of work that they claim that you did improperly. This could cover something you omitted to tell your client about your work also.
A beautician would need premises liability to cover anyone who was injured on the property and other liability issues as well as professional liability insurance to cover the beautician against claims resulting from their profession. Professional liability can often times be added to the property and liability (businessowner's) policy for very little additional cost. As a matter of full disclosure, I own and operate a small Independent Insurance Agency for the past 22 years and worked as an agent for direct writers for 3 years prior to that.
Professional Liability Underwriting Society was created in 1986.
Yes, In New York, that is true for medical professional liability.
Yes, California does require the attorneys to have professional liability insurance.
No. Liability insurance will only cover your liability for property damage/injuries to others. In this case, it would cover the damage to the pole you hit. Your liability coverage will never cover damage to anything you own. You would need collision/comprehensive coverage to cover damage to your car.
Professional indemnity insurance pays for the legal costs and any judgments up to the coverage limit. Also it may help with conducting an investigation to help with your case.
No. Wedding insurance will only cover things such as public liability, host liability etc. It does not cover a runaway bride.