www.business.com Understand general liability insurance for your small to medium-size business BIO: Tim Gaspar is the owner of Gaspar Insurance Services. TRANSCRIPT: Hello. My name is Tim Gaspar with Gaspar Insurance Services. We insure small and mid-sized businesses and handle their insurance needs. Today I am going to talk a little bit about general liability insurance, what exactly it is, and how much you need as a business owner. Having general liability insurance is the absolute basis of any insurance. I would say that if you could only afford to have one insurance, I think for most businesses general liability would be the insurance they would get. It is the absolute foundation to having your business insurance in place. Essentially, general liability insurance is the protection you have in the event you’re responsible, or your business is responsible for causing damage to a person or to property. And this can happen in a number of different ways. One of the most common is with a vehicle accident. Let’s say your company trucks gets into an accident. You hit somebody and damage their car, and let’s say they get injured. If they file a lawsuit against you, that’s covered under your general liability insurance. Along the same lines, let’s say you are manufacturing a product of some kind. Let’s say for instance that you are a pistachio distributor. If you distribute pistachios and the people that eat them end up getting sick, let’s say you get sued in a class action …
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