Tag: small business insurance

Why your customers will demand personal chef insurance before hiring you

Marc
personal chef insurance - chef - restaurant

It’s important for these culinary pros to learn that the best clients will require coverage. Personal chef insurance is among the first things you should purchase before cooking a professional meal for another person. There are many reasons that this coverage should be considered a foundation component to your business. This protection starts with liability insurance but expands beyond that depending on your services. The main issue is simply that chefs are people, too. Mistakes happen. Regardless of the care taken to avoid the mistakes, the training and experience they…

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Mechanics that own their own business need auto repair shop insurance

Logan B.

Garage liability coverage goes above and beyond what the usual business policy covers. Owning your own garage can be a very lucrative business, but auto repair shop insurance can make the difference in stopping one incident from shutting the whole thing down. This liability coverage is typically considered to be a necessity for garages of all sizes. In fact, garage liability insurance is often carried by tow truck drivers, auto dealerships and even service stations. The reason is that auto repair shop insurance provides specialized protection for business owners working…

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Small insurance companies facing scrutiny receive IRS deal offer

G. Turner
InsuranceBee and Hiscox launch insurance agent partner program

The goal of the deal is to ensure tax payment plus interest in exchange for dropping the case. The I.R.S. has offered small insurance companies under tax avoidance scrutiny a way to avoid penalties through a new offer. This offer would give the insurers the opportunity to pay all outstanding back taxes – in addition to interest – in order to close their cases and face no further penalties. The Internal Revenue Service is working to help to correct the tax avoidance and prevent it in the future. The small…

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Nationwide small commercial insurance satisfaction highest in US, says JD Power

H. Cutner
Commercial Insurance - Customer Satisfaction

The insurer earned the highest ranking for overall customer satisfaction in a recent study. A new J.D. Power study has found that Nationwide provides the best customer satisfaction in small commercial insurance. This, according to the findings from the firm’s 2019 U.S. Small Commercial Insurance Satisfaction Study. This isn’t Nationwide’s first time receiving the title. In fact, the insurer has been the top small commercial insurance company for customer satisfaction two years in a row. The company also took the top spot for the claims and policy offerings categories. “Small…

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Small Business Health Insurance Trends 2019

Guest Author
Small Business Insurance

The majority of Americans rely on small business health insurance to get the coverage they need. Unfortunately, too many small businesses fail to offer the right coverage options. In fact, in a survey of firms with between 3 and 9 employees, only 44% of those small businesses offered any health benefits. That’s bad news considering that small businesses make up the majority of businesses in the United States. Luckily, things are looking up. Despite the complicated and confusing insurance landscape of today, new trends are taking over that make small…

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