What is Insurance Exactly?

You know, sometimes the most basic concepts are the most important concepts. I wanted to talk to you about why you should have insurance. A lot of people ask that question, “What should I insure?”, or “Why should I have insurance?”

Well, let’s start with the most basic premise of what insurance is. Insurance is a tool to transfer risk. And typically, the risk you want to transfer is a risk you couldn’t afford to absorb yourself. Let’s say if you injure somebody in an auto accident, or if your home burns down to the ground.

Understanding Business Liability Coverages

There’s lots of different types of business liability coverages. Today I’m going to go into some of the most common coverages, and check our website for future videos because we’ll go into more detail with some of these coverages I’m going to mention in future videos.

The most common one is general liability coverage. General liability is just that. It’s very general. It covers if people get injured because of your business activities or if you damage property due to your business activities. It’s a real important coverage. You want to make sure that’s on your policy.

What is Workman’s Compensation Insurance?

Workman’s compensation insurance. You’ve heard me mention it before. I’m sure you’ve heard lots of people mention it before. I’m going to explain briefly what work comp insurance is, give you a brief overview of it and we’re all going to do additional videos on how you generate the premium for work comp, or how the premium is calculated.

But, to start off, with work comp insurance covers your employees in case they’re injured on the job. So, while they’re working on behalf of you, the employer, if your employees are injured while at your office, at a job location, or perhaps they’re traveling. The point is, if they’re injured while they’re working for you, the employer, they’re covered.

How Much Is Workman’s Compensation Insurance?

Work Comp is specifically rated and there’s two factors that go into rating it. The first one is what kind of work are your people doing? Someone that’s working inside of an office has a very, very low hazardous job. Someone that is a steel worker, trimming trees, putting on roofs, those are all very high hazardous jobs and the chance for those people to get injured are much more than, let’s say, the office worker.