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What kind of business insurance am I going to need?

Posted by in Thursday, July 28th 2011
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Question by Rachel: What kind of business insurance am I going to need?
I’m in the process of getting an estimate of how much a future business venture is going to cost. I’ve figured out pretty much everything except insurance. My business is an automated kiosk business and each kiosk costs about $ 50K with the merchandise inside and I’m starting out with 3. I’m wondering what kind of insurance I need and how much it would cost. I want to insure my merchandise and machines, but as I’ll be the only employee do I need anything beyond that?

Best answer:

Answer by Tom Z
In addition to covering your kiosks and inventory you will, without a doubt, need general liability as well as products liability insurance. As these kiosks are probably going to be situated on the premises of other businesses they will require you to carry liability insurance and they will be asking to be named as additional insureds.

If you are dealing with placement in a mall the mall operator will probably be requesting that you have limits of liability between $ 1,000,000 and $ 3,000,000.

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mbrcatz Said:

You’ll need general liability, for any business to let you put their kiosk there. Cost for that, is probably going to start at $ 1,000.

You’ll probably WANT property coverage for the kiosks, but you will likely have a hard time with theft and vandalism coverage – most insurers aren’t going to want to cover an individual kiosk against theft or vandalism, when you’re leaving it there unattended, and no one will be there to STOP the theft or vandalism. I’ve insured vending machines like that – kinda like kiosks, but smaller value – and have NEVER found a property insurer willing to insure for theft/vandalism. You can expect fire coverage to cost you close to 5% of the value you are insuring, depending on WHERE exactly they are located.


Stocktips india Said:

Errors & Omissions ,General Business Liability or depend on your facility.


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