Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
This section provides helpful guides, advice and features around the different insurance types available for UK small businesses. Small Business is also offering you the chance to find insurance quotes for bespoke, flexible business protection, ideal for startups and small businesses.
Key topics covered include: Business Insurance Types (such as public and employers’ liability insurance, tradesman insurance, key person insurance, business interruption and professional indemnity cover), How to Compare and Buy Insurance, Making Claims, and guides to picking the right cover for your category of business.
Make sure you understand risk and protect your business against losses and compensation claims. Find answers to your small business insurance questions by using the search facility top right or scroll through this category to match our case studies with your company’s needs.
Does a company need any insurance if it has just one employee but two directors? If I do, would that still be the case with just one director who is the employee?
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Business heavyweights call on government to underwrite events insurance policy, similar to that offered to TV industry
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Insurers appeal against High Court decisions, further delaying any payouts to firms which took out business interruption insurance policies
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High Court mostly sides with businesses over Covid insurance payouts but dispute over policy wordings is far from over
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Nearly 400,000 small businesses are waiting to see if insurers will be forced to pay out on their business interruption policies after a landmark High Court case
Government Grants
Small business owners rail against NFU Mutual for cutting coronavirus payouts because insurer says they have already had Government grants
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Here is why the threat of cyber attacks has paved the way for certain measures to be taken against them.
Office & home working
Remote working in the Covid-19 climate: what your home insurance policies will and won't cover
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Here is why the threat of cyber attacks has paved the way for certain measures to be taken against them.
Office & home working
Remote working in the Covid-19 climate: what your home insurance policies will and won't cover
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You may have a small business interruption policy, but will it cover you against coronavirus?
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Insurers fear IT outages from fire and flood could be so expensive they exclude computers from buildings policies
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Taking out a group life insurance policy is often half the cost of what you would pay as an individual. And death-in-service insurance is one of the top three benefits employees want from a company
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The sudden death or critical illness of a founder can have unwelcome consequences for a small business. Your SME could pass into the hand’s of an unwelcome family member or even be sold to a rival. Shareholder Protection Insurance allows you to plan your succession as you want.
Business Technology
Here's how Security Service Edge from Vodafone can help to protect your SME from ever-increasing cyber threats
Business Technology
Find out how creative agency, Myth Studio, used technology to grow their business and quadruple their staff count in 18 months
Partner content
Employment benefits specialist, Drewberry, explain why you should base your benefits around a Total Reward Strategy
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