Personal and public liability insurance - Is it possible to get a combined policy?
Q: I'm about to set up a unpretentious sole trader business in the UK making furniture and I am going to be moving into a nugatory industrial unit which I will be renting. I have been advised by the people who are renting out the unit that I impecuniousness to get personal and public liability insurance. I have done a few searches on the internet but I can't see any companies that have a combined policy. In other words it seems I have to get two seperate insurance policies for exclusive and public insurance. Is this right? Or is it the case that public liability also includes personal liability.
A: OK, I sieve to US Only questions (not english only) and this came up, so I'm guessing that maybe you're not going to get many UK answers.
Here in the US, and most of the kip of the world, it's true - there are TWO different kinds of liability - personal, and business. "Public" is a misnomer - public can be either derogatory, or business. Or maybe it's just a UK way to say 'business'.
But, you CANNOT combine the two. The rating infrastructure and coverages are WILDLY divergent. Business liability does NOT include personal liability, but it DOES enlarge coverage, to some extent, over employees IN THE COURSE OF EMPLOYMENT. With exclusions, of speed.
