Motor traders come in all shapes and sizes from someone selling cars or offering mechanical repairs part time from home to car valeting and detailing right up to main dealers. Motor Trade Insurance can be split into a number of categories including Road Risk, Public and Employers Liability, Stock of Vehicles, Service Indemnity and Professional Indemnity for dealerships offering finance.
Buildings & Tenants Improvements
If you own the premises you trade from then you will need to include cover for buildings. This will cover the physical building including fixtures & fittings in the event of a loss such as a fire or flood. If you lease the premises you may want to consider insuring the physical changes you have made to the premises such as flooring and individual offices or meeting rooms built at the premises.
Contents & Equipment
Whether you are a sole trader with no employees or you have a team of sales staff and mechanics working from your premises you will need to cover contents such as furniture, computers, furniture, tools and equipment such as ramps etc. The cost of fitting out your garage and replacing tools, equipment, ramps etc. can be high so covering Contents & Equipment in the event of total loss is important under your Motor Trade Policy.
Stock
Obviously those involved in sales will need to have their stock of vehicles covered by their Motor Trade Policy however, for those in the associated areas of servicing & repairs, crash repairs and valeting etc. you should have cover for stock of vehicles as well. Customer cars in your garage need to be covered in the event of theft or even fire so it is vital to have stock correctly insured.
Public & Products Liability Insurance
We’ve covered Public Liability as a separate topic (which can be found here https://jvhutton.com/blog-public-liability-insurance/) but we’ll briefly cover it again. Public Liability Insurance provides cover in the event that you cause bodily injury, death or damage to property of any third party at your premises or in the course of your business. This could be as a result of someone coming to your garage to drop off or collect a vehicle and tripping over a trailing cable on the ground.
Employers Insurance
Just as you have an onus of responsibility to members of the public, you also have a duty to keep your staff safe. Employers Liability covers you in the event that one of your employees suffers a loss during the course of their work. As above, an example of this could be an employee tripping in the garage and injuring themselves.
Motor Trade Road Risks
Last but by no means least, we will look at the Motor Trade Road Risks policy. Like all other motor policies cover options include Comprehensive, Third Party Fire & Theft and Third Party Only. The Motor Trade Road Risks policy covers policyholders and named drivers to drive company owned vehicles. These would be vehicles owned by the company or directors of the company only and will not cover employees or family member vehicles. The policy will also cover drivers to drive customer vehicles. Some cover restrictions will may apply depending on vehicle value, size or classification.
Additional Covers to Consider
In the course of your professional duties you may want to consider other policies such as Professional Indemnity, Directors & Officers cover and Cyber Liability. You can learn more about these covers at https://jvhutton.com/professional-services-insurance/ and we will be covering these policies as individual topics in the near future.
JV Hutton Business are specialists in Motor Trade Insurance. Call us today on 01 8203722 or visit https://jvhutton.com/motor-trade-insurance/ to find out more.
Motor traders come in all shapes and sizes from someone selling cars or offering mechanical repairs part time from home to car valeting and detailing right up to main dealers. Motor Trade Insurance can be split into a number of categories including Road Risk, Public and Employers Liability, Stock of Vehicles, Service Indemnity and Professional Indemnity for dealerships offering finance.
Buildings & Tenants Improvements
If you own the premises you trade from then you will need to include cover for buildings. This will cover the physical building including fixtures & fittings in the event of a loss such as a fire or flood. If you lease the premises you may want to consider insuring the physical changes you have made to the premises such as flooring and individual offices or meeting rooms built at the premises.
Contents & Equipment
Whether you are a sole trader with no employees or you have a team of sales staff and mechanics working from your premises you will need to cover contents such as furniture, computers, furniture, tools and equipment such as ramps etc. The cost of fitting out your garage and replacing tools, equipment, ramps etc. can be high so covering Contents & Equipment in the event of total loss is important under your Motor Trade Policy.
Stock
Obviously those involved in sales will need to have their stock of vehicles covered by their Motor Trade Policy however, for those in the associated areas of servicing & repairs, crash repairs and valeting etc. you should have cover for stock of vehicles as well. Customer cars in your garage need to be covered in the event of theft or even fire so it is vital to have stock correctly insured.
Public & Products Liability Insurance
We’ve covered Public Liability as a separate topic (which can be found here https://jvhutton.com/blog-public-liability-insurance/) but we’ll briefly cover it again. Public Liability Insurance provides cover in the event that you cause bodily injury, death or damage to property of any third party at your premises or in the course of your business. This could be as a result of someone coming to your garage to drop off or collect a vehicle and tripping over a trailing cable on the ground.
Employers Insurance
Just as you have an onus of responsibility to members of the public, you also have a duty to keep your staff safe. Employers Liability covers you in the event that one of your employees suffers a loss during the course of their work. As above, an example of this could be an employee tripping in the garage and injuring themselves.
Motor Trade Road Risks
Last but by no means least, we will look at the Motor Trade Road Risks policy. Like all other motor policies cover options include Comprehensive, Third Party Fire & Theft and Third Party Only. The Motor Trade Road Risks policy covers policyholders and named drivers to drive company owned vehicles. These would be vehicles owned by the company or directors of the company only and will not cover employees or family member vehicles. The policy will also cover drivers to drive customer vehicles. Some cover restrictions will may apply depending on vehicle value, size or classification.
Additional Covers to Consider
In the course of your professional duties you may want to consider other policies such as Professional Indemnity, Directors & Officers cover and Cyber Liability. You can learn more about these covers at https://jvhutton.com/professional-services-insurance/ and we will be covering these policies as individual topics in the near future.
JV Hutton Business are specialists in Motor Trade Insurance. Call us today on 01 8203722 or visit https://jvhutton.com/motor-trade-insurance/ to find out more.