Businessowners Insurance
Our commercial property and casualty insurance has the coverage you need for your business.
Coverage Highlights
If you can’t operate your business because your property or equipment is damaged, we’ll help cover your costs, up to the actual amount of lost income.
Not every business owner also owns their building. If you rent your shop and it is damaged, up to $50,000 of costs are covered.
This coverage pays your business back if you must defend against a lawsuit connected to a worker’s employment. This has a limit of $10,000.
Coverage specifically for the tools and machines you need in your business is included with the policy.
Related Coverages
Cyber Liability
Coverage for when secure passwords and internet-based protection isn’t enough.
Business Umbrella
Additional coverage when you need to go above and beyond your regular policy.
Workers' Compensation
Protect yourself and your staff if there's an injury or disability on the job.
Other Features Include…
Additional Coverages
- Accounts Receivable: $10,000 on premises, $5,000 off premises
- Basic Liability: $300,000 (higher limits available)
- Buildings and Personal Property: Replacement cost
- Contractual Liability
- Medical Payments: $5,000 per person
- Money and Securities: $10,000 on premises, $2,000 off premises
- Valuable Papers: $10,000 on premises, $5,000 off premises
Optional Coverages
- Business Computer
- Employee Benefits
- Employee Dishonesty
Preferred Risks
These types of business offer especially competitive rates and special enhancement endorsements.
- Auto parts stores
- Baked goods and bakeries
- Coffee, tea, and spice shops
- Copying and duplicating services
- Dairies (ice cream and yogurt shops)
- Delicatessens
- Floor covering stores
- Florists
- Funeral homes
- Gift shops
- Mini-Warehouses
- Monument dealers
- Pizzerias (no delivery)
- Print shops
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Add-on Coverages
Customize your business owners insurance policy with these optional add-on coverages.
What Every Business Needs To Survive
Jennifer Harughty of Texas was having fun at a Houston Astros baseball game last summer. At least until, she claims, the T-shirt cannon fired by the Astros’ mascot seriously injured her finger. She’s had surgery and is now suing the team to recover her expenses.
If the Astros have to pay Harughty, the money will most likely come from the team’s insurance coverage — their general liability coverage. It applies to bodily injuries and property damage: in other words, it’s beneficial for nearly every business.
Bodily injury is defined as injury, sickness, or disease sustained by a person, including death resulting from any of these at any time.
Property damage is physical injury to tangible property, including all resulting loss of use of that property, or loss of use of tangible property that is not physically injured. Tangible property is anything that’s a possession: land, buildings, tools, vehicles, and almost everything else you can think of.
While a basic general liability policy provides coverage for bodily injury and property damage claims, you can expand coverage with the addition of these endorsements to your policy:
Liability Coverage Extension
This endorsement bundles several coverages that policyholders may find valuable to protect their businesses, such as product recall expense, additional medical payments, and additional insured coverage, to name a few.Hired and Non-owned Auto Liability
Many businesses use vehicles in the course of their operations whether they own them or not. They may ask an employee to use their own auto (meaning a car or truck) or occasionally rent an auto. Hired and non-owned auto coverage is designed for these situations, to provide liability coverage to the policyholder for autos they don’t own.Cyber Liability and Data Breach Response
We’ve discussed this before — it’s protection if you’re hacked, or if an employee email carries a virus.Protect your company, no matter what business you’re in. Find exactly the coverage you need. Contact your local independent insurance agent and ask about our general liability coverage.
Has liability coverage helped you? Let us know in the comments.
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The information on this page is made available for educational purposes only. The information referred to is not an official company statement, corporate policy, or offer of coverage. Refer to your insurance policy for specific coverage. There is no representation as to the accuracy or completeness of any information found by following any link on this site. Please contact your local independent insurance agent with further questions and for more details on any insurance policy-related information you read here.
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404 E. Woodlawn Ave.
Hastings, MI 49058
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