Small Business Insurance

This section provides helpful guides, advice and features around the different insurance types available for UK small businesses. In partnership with Hiscox, SmallBusiness is also offering you the chance to find insurance quotes for bespoke, flexible business protection, ideal for the startup entrepreneur or SME.

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.

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New Insurance Act is upon businesses

The biggest reform to insurance for more than a century has almost come into force but businesses are being warned to ensure that they do not fall foul of the changes.

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Should cyber insurance become compulsory for UK businesses?

Here is why the threat of cyber attacks has paved the way for certain measures to be taken against them.

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Banks feeling the squeeze over PPI payouts

British banks are feeling the squeeze over refunds and compensation for mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI).

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Choosing the right business insurance to cover all your office peripherals

Business insurance can be a tricky path to tread if you don’t know what you’re looking for.

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Consider key person insurance for your small business

In this Q&A Jody Pearmain talks about how one often-overlooked form of insurance can be critical for your business.

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Why your start-up needs product liability insurance

Here, we put product liability insurance and its relevance to small businesses under the microscope.

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Small business insurance: What to look for in a policy

In this piece, we look at the variety of business insurance cover you should consider in your small company.

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What insurance does your small business need?

Here, in association with Simply Business, we look at the types of insurance to bear in mind for your business.

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Why small businesses need to invest in ergonomics

Here, we look at the science of optimising the office environment to match the worker.

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Businesses not up to speed on business protection insurance

More than half of small companies would have to cease trading if they lost one or more key people to illness, long-term incapacity or death, research finds.

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Insurance for business vehicles

Why not insuring your vehicles can open your business up to financial ruin.

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Small businesses unwittingly breaking law in overseeing Employers Liability insurance

Nearly half of the UK's small businesses could be employing staff without having the mandatory Employers Liability (EL) insurance, a specialist warns.

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