Insurance protects against loss. Simply put, any business entity is vulnerable to a wide variety of unforeseen or unavoidable losses brought about by events that are usually outside of their control. These events occur rarely so it doesn't make sense to try and build a financial wall that will handle all possible contingencies. To assure that events causing loss or damage to your business do not cause it to fail, insurance companies aggregate small amounts of money, called insurance premiums, from many companies and manage these funds so sufficient resources will be available to that occasional business that does encounter a devastating or catastrophic event that causes substantial loss.
There are many types of insurance policies for commerce. Business insurance is specialized in its type of protection and scope of coverage to include those losses thought most likely to occur for specific categories of business. Although it is almost impossible to list all the insurance policy types that provide coverage for businesses - insurance protection can be grouped into a number of broad categories.
- Social Insurance - are state mandated no fault programs that provide a safety net for workers who are unable to continue work on a temporary or permanent basis.
- Damage Insurance - insurance coverage that protects against loss of physical assets such as buildings, machinery, equipment and so on.
- Liability Insurance - protects the policyholder from personal injury claims by consumers or workers.
- Loss of Use Insurance - provides for the continuation of business activity in case certain events prevent the continuation of commerce.
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