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Veterinary Business Insurance West Chester, OHVETERINARY BUSINESS INSURANCE

Veterinary Business Insurance can be provided on our broad Business Owner Policy (BOP) coverage form.  The BOP policy language has been carefully written to provide comprehensive insurance for owners of veterinary and animal clinic businesses including those with multiple locations.  We know that our Veterinary Business Insurance will be an excellent policy choice for your needs.  Our BOP Veterinary business coverage is ideal for the variety of property and liability exposures inherent in the complicated work you do.

Veterinary Business Insurance needs are similar to many other businesses.  We include effective liability and property coverage as a start and weave into the coverage framework the other various coverage parts that you may need for your particular operation.  However, we understand that your business often deals with intangibles like life and death and these are not products you can touch or handle. Your reputation as a careful caregiver is important to sustain.  Our BOP coverage is thorough and when it is up and running and protecting you, our Veterinary Business Insurance package is providing a shield of protection on property and liability and the intangibles you work with.  We can write Veterinary Business Insurance for a single locations and those with more than one location.

Veterinary Business Insurance under our Business Owner Policy package is designed for most veterinary practices and animal hospitals and clinics.   The policy we write for veterinarians will typically include the following coverage and options when selected. Basic general liability is included automatically:

Veterinary Business Insurance – Liability

  • Bodily Injury and Property Damage, Premises Liability
    • Limits available up to $2,000,000/$4,000,000
  • Personal Injury and Advertising Liability Coverage
  • Coverage on your premises or wherever you do your work
  • Employment Practices Liability Insurance
  • Fellow Employee Coverage
  • Host Liquor Liability
  • Non-owned Watercraft
  • Hired and Non-Owned Auto Liability
  • Products and Completed Operations Liability
  • Employee Benefits Liability
  • Ohio Stop Gap Liability Insurance
  • Cyber Insurance – Data Breach, Cyber Extortion
  • Electronic  Data Liability Coverage
  • Veterinary Professional Liability

Liability insurance protects against the tort of negligence in the Veterinary Business Insurance policy.  The tort of negligence is a breach of duty that is derived from common law principles that have evolved through decades and even centuries of recorded decisions about our relationships with one another including Veterinary Business Insurance clients.  A duty is an obligation we owe to someone else.  In essence, we owe each other the duty to protect them from the consequences of our actions and when someone is hurt or suffers harm to either body, property, or reputation.  In our culture we boil down our grievances to a money damages settlement in most cases.  In the case of the liability coverage provided in our Veterinary Business Insurance policy, we will pay for the benefit of a legal defense against the claims of injury or damage and we will also pay the amounts that become due to another because a finding of your negligence has been agreed upon.  Agreements occur through legal proceedings or an agreement accomplished through the negotiations of your insurance carrier and the other people involved in the claim.  This includes bodily injury and property damage as a result of events on the premises, through acts on and away from the work facilities, injuries caused by products, advertising injury, personal injuries other than bodily injury, hired and non-owned auto liability, and injury or damage caused due to computer intrusion and compromise when coverage is chosen.

Property for Veterinary and Animal Clinic Businesses

  • Owned Buildings including multiple locations
  • Business Personal Property used to perform your work
  • Computers and Electronic Records including media
  • Building Limit Automatic Increase at the Time of Loss
  • Valuable Papers and Records
  • Accounts Receivable Coverage
  • Computer Coverage and Cyber Crime
  • Outdoor Signs—Attached and Detached
  • Building Ordinance and Law Coverage
  • Off-Premises Coverage for Business Personal Property
  • Property in Transit when properly endorsed
  • Earthquake Coverage (Some carriers)
  • Loss of Rents, Business Income, including Extra Expense Coverage
  • Coverage For Water Back-up
  • Equipment Breakdown & Electrical Disturbance

Our Veterinary Business Insurance package policies are a combination of property and liability coverage.  You do not need to own the building but at the least we must include the business personal property, stock and fixtures along with liability coverage.  The reason this form of coverage is cost effective is because of the credits we build in for bundling many typically purchased coverages into the policy at the outset.  The Veterinary Business Insurance policy provides a lot of coverage in a tidy package and it is flexible enough to handle several locations and variety of situations for building, business personal property, computer and cyber-crime needs, signs, coverage on or off premises, loss of business income, and break down of critical building mechanical systems that may alter your ability to operate.

Inland Marine and Special Property

(See IM Section for more Details)

Inland Marine coverage is especially designed for mobile equipment and property that leaves the insured premises/location.  If you take property to a client location like a laptop or other devices you use in the field, the IM coverage provides great protection for this mobile property.

Umbrella Liability

Veterinary Business Insurance often includes an Umbrella liability policy as an additional limit of liability protection because of the potential for large liability claims can occur. Think of an Umbrella policy as an extension of the underlying liability policy limits.  What isn’t covered in the primary policies may also be picked up in the Umbrella policy when the cause of loss is not specifically excluded.  Most carriers offering an umbrella policy to cover over underlying policies they also write.  It is good to know what is and isn’t covered by the Umbrella so make sure to ask.

Crime, Surety & Fidelity Bonds

  • Employee Theft
  • Crime Inside
  • Crime Outside
  • Surety & Fidelity Bonds

While you are busy operating and managing your business, your Veterinary Business Insurance can be on guard for the loss of money through theft, robbery or burglary, or the dishonesty of an employee. These are losses that can cripple a business and tailoring the needs for crime, surety and fidelity coverage can be done within the Business Owner Policy but may be better handled on a separate policy.

Business Auto

(See business Auto Section for Details)

If you maintain your own business autos, trucks and trailers, we can usually easily solve the Veterinary Business Insurance problems inherent in your operations on a separate commercial auto policy that becomes a part of your coverage package.  If you rely on the vehicles owned by your employees for delivery or business errands, you will need employer’s non-ownership coverage.  You should purchase liability protection in limits similar to those you carry on premises and operations coverage.  We cover non-owned auto liability with endorsements for small operations in most cases when there are no owned business autos on a policy.

The business auto coverage is dealt with in general detail in the business auto section.  Follow the link to this section for my information.

Professional Advice and Agency Service

Just like your professional service and standard for care, quality coverage begins with understanding your needs and the extent of your operation.  My job is to help you make good choices.  Moreover, our claims and underwriter resources have plenty of experience in insuring and providing benefits to veterinarians and their businesses.  Moreover, I have 37 years of experience working with business owners and have insured hundreds of millions of dollars of property through the years along for hundreds and thousands of businesses in many lines including municipalities, police forces, and providing dental malpractice to dentists. Veterinary Business Insurance is a specialty coverage product that is competitively prices and which has thorough coverage.  It is wise to work with experienced companies and agents to get the best coverage and best rates but as you know from your work, experience matters and has a value. I have considerable experience working with small business owners and other complex businesses and owning a business is a unique perspective to add to the mix.

This agency represents quality carriers that have the ability to provide the coverage your business needs whether or not it is ultimately provided inside of our Business Owner Policy or our more flexible Commercial Package Policy (CPP) option.  Call and ask for Terry McCarthy at (513) 779-7920, 9-5 Monday – Friday most days. We’re available to meet at most any time with an appointment in advance.

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