Tradesmans Insurance – What does it cover?

A Guide to Tradesmans Insurance Online
It’s the oldest online commercial insurance and the widest sold type of business insurance in the UK, but what exactly is Tradesmans Insurance?

If you own or manage a small business, you will require at least some type of liability insurance to protect your company against the various risks and possible claims, that your business will face.
Small businesses and tradesmen are required by law to have employers liability insurance at the very least in order to carry on business. Employer’s liability cover  protects the workforce and allows the business to pay any claims against it which may be brought by a worker who was injured carying out his or her duties.
Public liability insurance is essential if you work with members of the public who may pursue claims against you and motor insurance or van insurance is also likely to be a necessity.
If the business has plant or machinery which must have a periodical statutory inspection, it will be usual to arrange for this to be done by a specialist engineering insurer under the terms of an engineering inspection contract, with or without insurance.
Tradesman’s insurance is more often than not sold online as a small business insurance package policy. A package will include all elements of cover required by a small business or self employed trader such as basic employers liability and public liability covers and theft of tools. Trademans insurance quotation systems allow you to vary the levels of indemnity required for liability insurance in a typical range of between £1 million and £10 million. The higher the levels of indemnity required the higher the premium. Tools cover is usually rated on a replacement new for old, sum insured basis, where you define the value of your tools.

A Brief History of Insurance: Part 2 Early Marine Insurance

A brief history of Insurance:
Part Two: Rhodian General Average and Athenan Maritime Loans:
OK, so in the first article in this series we discovered that whilst those amazing Chinese chaps were out inventing everything and anything, they put together the worlds first ever risk management systems. We also discovered that it was a thousand years or so later that a rather brilliant Babylonian, a first dynasty king called Hammurabi came up with something that many scholars consider to be the first recorded form of monetised insurance.
This system was in fact set to become incredibly wide spread largely down to the Babylonian’s sphere of influence within the young, growing markets of commerce within early history.  The practice of paying what we would now consider an insurance premium, to cover the cost of a merchant’s cargo should it be lossed due to theft or accident on the high seas, had become common place across the mediteranean in its many fledgling cultures.
As the cultures of the meditaranean developed and in particular that of Ancient Greece, so we see further complexities within insurance as a financial product within these cultures and also their growing importance within the daily lives of members of these societies.

A Brief History of Insurance: Part 1 The Ancient World

Insurance Blog  likes to educate our readers so today for those of you studying for your ACII Insurance Blogger Kris Oldland discusses the development and history of  Insurance.

Part One: Insurance in the ancient world:

Insurance is everywhere and attached to everything we do. In the western world practically each and everyone of us is involved with a number of seperate insurance policies everyday and everywhere we go. Whether it be in our cars, in our homes or in our jobs we will no doubt be insured somehow at any given moment. But where did this concept originate and how has it developed over the years to the modern sophisticated system that it is today?
Well, the history of insurance steps back a lot further back than many of us would ever imagine. In fact,  throughout history wherever there has been any form of commerce and an economy in place, insurance of some description soon followed.

New Online Crime Maps launched in UK

Did you know there was a burglary last week in your road?
Ever wondered why you home insurance premiums are so high?
Well from now on you can find out whats been happening in your area with a new online crime mapping service from the UK Police.
The maps based on Google Earth and using a streetview pointer  allow you to zoom down to see crimes commited in each street.

What surprised Insurance blog was that for every postcode we entered, the biggest crime was anti-social behaviour!