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Home > Blog > Understanding Three Extremely Common Liability Claims
TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2021

Understanding Three Extremely Common Liability Claims

Your priority as a business owner is to be responsive to your customers. While you want all your operations to go off without a hitch, you can’t ignore the fact that sometimes things will go wrong. You have to be ready to address the fact that sometimes you will have to take responsibility for your mistakes that cause harm to others. A comprehensive liability insurance portfolio will help you do so. 

Liability claims arise directly from the fact that someone feels that your business was at fault for harm they sustained. No business is immune to these risks, and some liability claims are more common than others. Let’s take a closer look at three of the liability claims that might affect all businesses, and that tend to be very costly when they arise. 

Danger One: Customer Slip and Fall Injuries  

One of the most common triggers of a customer lawsuit is a slip-and-fall accident. This might arise after a customer falls in your business and sustains an injury of some sort. They might sue you to cover their medical bills, lost income and other losses. The costs of fighting and settling these claims, therefore, can be exceptional. Even if the claim has no merit in court, the costs of fighting back might be reduced substantially by making a claim on your liability plan.  yellow hard hat next to a chalkboard that says safety first

Danger Two: Product Liability Claims  
Any business that makes a product needs this coverage, and it’s often included as part of most general liability policies. It addresses the fact that sometimes these products might have undetected flaws that could cause someone harm. At this point, a product liability policy will offer the terms that will allow the business to those affected by these challenges.  

Danger Three: Personal Harm  
You seek to have professional, mutually beneficial interactions with all of your customers, competitors, vendors and other parties. However, you can cause them harm in more than just physical ways. Sometimes, they might feel that you libeled or slandered them, caused a copyright infringement or engaged in false advertising. At this time, their lawsuits might prove astronomically expensive, and you have to be able to address the claim.  

When securing your business, it is important to be prepared for anything. Still, while you can do a lot to minimize the risks of third-party harm occurring, you cannot eliminate them altogether. Therefore, you must purchase a liability insurance portfolio will help you comprehensively blanket yourself in benefits.   

As the provider of services to others, you have to realize that the customer comes first, and if something were to go wrong, it would be you who would have to pick up the pieces. That’s why you must not think of your liability benefits as irrelevant. They’re some of the most important that your business can carry. 

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