Reiki insurance

Public liability insurance

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

What’s typically covered by Reiki public liability insurance?

Claims against your business for:

• damage to someone’s property, caused by your business activities
• illness or injuries as a result of your business
• employees causing accidental damage or injuries

For example:

• while hosting a meeting, you leave a cable running across the open office floor and your client trips, spraining their ankle
• you serve a client sandwiches with a trace of sesame seeds, causing an allergic reaction
• your employee drops heavy equipment on your client’s floor, causing extensive damage

**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 practice.

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 equipment insurance?

Claims against your business for:

• accidental damage to your contents, or the equipment you use to run the business
• theft, flood, and fire damage

For example:

• someone breaks into your business premises and steals three company laptops, as well as two sets of headphones
• a faulty dishwasher floods your office kitchen, causing damage to several appliances
• your business equipment is damaged by vandals during a break-in

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Business legal insurance

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

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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Personal accident insurance

In case anyone you’ve covered is accidentally injured, at work or off-duty.

What’s typically covered by personal accident insurance?

Claims against your business for:

• accidental death or injury, suffered by anyone covered on your policy, that happens at work or elsewhere
• income lost by your business, as well as medical costs and hospitalisation benefit

For example:

• while on holiday with your family, you trip and fall on some rocks, spraining your wrist and preventing you from working the following week
• your secretary (who you’ve covered) suffers a leg injury while swimming at the weekend, and needs time off work for physiotherapy
• a junior staff member covered on the policy is in a minor car accident at the weekend, and needs to take some time off to recover

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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, damage or theft of essential stock
• destruction of stock caused by fire or flood
• the cost of replacing items that you’re going to sell

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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Tool insurance

In case your tools are lost, stolen or damaged.

What’s typically covered by tool insurance?

Claims against your business for:

• accidental damage to specialist business equipment
• theft of the tools you use to do your job
• loss of your Reiki equipment

For example:

• your business tools are damaged in a fire or flood
• your equipment is stolen while you’re on the job
• you lose your [TRADE] tools and equipment while travelling

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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:

• when you make a claim on a cover included in your business insurance policy, you won’t need to pay excess

For example :

• after a heavy storm you need to make a claim on your building cover – you don’t have to pay the £250 excess thanks to your excess insurance
• a leak in the bathroom causes a guest to slip and injure themselves and thanks to excess cover, there’s no excess to pay on the claim
• a tenant’s suitcase scratches the wooden flooring in your hallway – you won’t have to pay any excess on your accidental damage claim