Product Liability Insurance is a form of general liability insurance meant to protect a business from financial and legal consequences as a result of bodily injury or property damage due to the use of the business’s sold goods or products. Situations that are typically covered by Product Liability Insurance may include:
- A customer harms herself because of the faulty packaging on one of your products
- A drapery set that a customer purchased from your business was highly flammable and caught on fire, eventually damaging her entire kitchen
- A customer with a severe allergy finds trace amounts of tree nuts in your homemade gourmet muffins
- A homemade house cleaner that you sell damaged one of your customer’s entire hardwood floor
- A customer becomes sick with food poisoning after eating old shellfish at your restaurant, goes to the hospital, and incurs medical costs caused by your contaminated food products
- A customer’s pet becomes ill from ingesting some lining in a pet toy product that you sell
In the scenario above, the supermarket is purchasing and reselling house cleaner, which can be covered by product liability insurance.
Public liability insurance is a type of business insurance that covers the cost of claims made by the public that happen in connection with the business activities.
Professional indemnity (PI) insurance is a commercial policy designed to protect business owners, freelancers and the self-employed if clients claim a service is inadequate.
