As a business owner, or self employed consultant, you will have heard about or been recommended to arrange professional indemnity insurance. Many businesses are often unsure of what it means and the protection it provides, or, mix it up with liability insurance. That’s why we’ve put together a simple guide to explain its purpose, how … Read More
Professional Indemnity Insurance
Professional Indemnity & Design and Construct Insurance
A very simple fact of life for any Construction Professional or Professional firm: If you give advice in your capacity as an expert you may be sued for something you did, or did not do! Your professional reputation let alone your financial security is absolutely paramount. A design error or wrongful advice may cost you … Read More
Media Insurance – Media is a Tough Game, Play to Win
This article discusses the media industry, concentrating on the news sector, and the increasing openness of news departments to libel, slanderand defamation actions. The tension is high, the blood pressure is up, tentative hooks reign supreme amongst the editorial staff, as the press paper is tossed from the courier vans, and into the porches of … Read More
Titan Professional Indemnity Insurance: Professionals Need More Protection Than Ever
A leading professional indemnity insurance broker is warning its clients not to skimp on their cover. As times get increasingly difficult for consultants and professional advisers in today’s tough commercial environment, all costs are rightly scrutinised and put through the wringer as to their ultimate value. But Titan, which advises a large number of freelances … Read More
Insurance for Accountants – G7 Growth Stronger
Those interested in insurance for accountants will be pleased to hear that G7 economic growth – apart from Japan of course – is expected to be stronger than projected before in previous reports. The upbeat assessment, which will delight those that take out insurance for accountants, has just been published by the OEDC, a respected … Read More
What Is Professional Indemnity Insurance?
When you ask yourself, just what is professional indemnity insurance, think about the sort of scenario below. As the name implies, professional indemnity insurance is there to protect the professional – the insured – from any legal action that might be brought about through their actions. Now let’s say, for the purposes of this illustration, … Read More
Titan Media Insurance: Television Celebrities Take Cover
As one of the largest media insurance brokers in the UK, Titan is seeing more on screen celebrities upping their cover after viewer complaints increase. Titan points out that when it comes to media insurance, many television stars are actually freelances and have to arrange their own cover. They usually have a degree of cover … Read More
Titan Insurance for Accountants: Call to end dominance of the Big Four
Titan Insurance for Accountants is supporting a move from smaller networks of professional practices which are calling on the European Commission to try and break the dominance held by the Big Four firms over the industry. In particular, to try and break the hold that Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PwC have over the … Read More
Media Insurance for Those Working on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
It’s likely those currently working on the film project Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, will have the best media insurance going. The entertainment industry is made up of many self-employed freelance operators; right from the actor’s themselves, through to sound technicians, cameramen, and lighting and make-up experts. It’s one of the industries which rely on self-employed … Read More