Launderette insurance

Public liability insurance

In case your business and products cause an injury or property damage.

What’s typically covered by launderette public liability insurance?

Claims against your business for:

• damage to someone else’s property while you’re working, or because of your work
• injury to someone as a result of your work
• accidental injuries caused by your employees at work

For example:

• you’re with a client and you accidentally spill coffee onto their designer handbag, causing a permanent stain
• your client trips over your laptop charger cable while you’re setting up for an appointment, breaking their wrist
• your employee damages a neighbouring business’s property while bringing equipment into your premises

**If you do employ anyone, you’re usually required by law to have employers’ liability insurance too.**

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Employers’ liability insurance

In case anyone gets ill or injured while working for your launderette

What’s typically covered by employers’ liability insurance?

Claims against your business for:

• injuries to staff (including casual labourers and contractors) that are caused as a result of your business
• illness suffered by an employee (including temps and casual workers) caused by working for you

**Employers’ liability insurance is required by law if you have people working for you. Without it, you could be fined up to £2,500 a day for each employee.**

For example:

• your office manager breaks their finger while trying to close a faulty window at your business premises
• your receptionist trips over a cable running across the floor of your office, breaking their ankle
• a temp worker scratches their arm on one of your tools, and the injury becomes infected

Contents insurance

In case something happens to your fixtures, fittings, or operational equipment.

What’s typically covered by business contents insurance?

Claims against your business for:

• theft or vandalism to your office furniture or business equipment
• damage or destruction caused by fire or flood

For example:

• a fire caused by faulty electrics destroys your office furniture and other contents such as business equipment
• someone forces entry to your business premises and graffitis your office furniture
• a leaking pipe floods the ground floor of your business premises, and you need to replace your damaged contents

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Business legal insurance

In case you’re hit with legal expenses connected to your launderette.

What’s typically covered by business legal insurance?

Claims against your business for:

• VAT disputes
• theft of your company’s identity illegally
• compensation under data protection legislation

For example:

• HMRC is investigating your VAT affairs, triggered by seemingly incorrect figures on your return
• a fraudster steals your company’s bank details and buys goods to set up a new line of credit with banks or retailers
• a client is claiming you didn’t process their data in accordance with GDPR, and is seeking compensation

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Stock insurance

In case something happens to your products and consumables.

What’s typically covered by stock insurance?

Claims against your business for:

• loss of stock, and theft or malicious damage to your stock
• damage or destruction to stock caused by fire or flood
• the essentials you keep as stock – the items you need to sell to operate

For example :

• a fire in your shop destroys key stock
• your stockroom gets flooded by a leaking pipe
• someone breaks into your shop, stealing stock and damaging stock they leave behind

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Buildings insurance

In case something happens to your business premises.

What’s typically covered by business building insurance?

Claims against your business for:

• the cost of structural repair (or rebuilding from scratch) following damage to your building
• damage to fixtures and fittings
• underground pipes and cables that you’re responsible for

For example:

• someone vandalises your shop with graffiti, which you need removing ASAP
• your shop’s non-slip rubber flooring gets damaged during a refurb and needs replacing
• a non-supporting wall in your building has been damaged and needs replacing

Read more about business buildings insurance

Excess insurance

In case you need to make a claim on your insurance policy.

What’s typically covered by excess insurance?

Claims made by you for:

• the cost of the excess you’d have to pay when making a claim on a cover included in your business insurance policy

For example :

• strong winds cause severe damage to the roof of your property – you don’t have to pay the £250 excess thanks to your excess insurance
• a guest accidentally breaks a television during their stay at your property and thanks to your excess insurance, you don’t need to pay excess on the claim
• a guest’s child trips on a loose carpet and breaks their arm – they claim compensation and you don’t pay excess due to your excess insurance