Business Coaches Insurance

What Insurance Do I Need as a Business Coach? *

Some of the major types of business insurance covers available to business coaches in Australia are explained below and include:

• Professional Indemnity Insurance
• Business Pack Insurance
• Public Liability Insurance
• Cyber Insurance 
• Management Liability Insurance

Professional Indemnity Insurance for business coaches *

Professional indemnity insurance is the essential cover for business coaches.

Business coaches typically provide professional services including but not limited to guiding business leaders and teams in relation to planning, strategy, accountability, motivation, development, goal setting, and teamwork.

If a business coach provides guidance that results in a negative outcome, makes an error, such as providing incorrect information, or provides advice that leads to financial losses for a client, a client may seek to recover these losses from the business coach.

Professional Indemnity Insurance may help business coaches stay in business by paying for legal defence costs, public relation expenses, privacy brief costs and financial losses if awarded against them.

What may professional indemnity insurance cover for business coaches? *

While policies vary from insurer-to-insurer professional indemnity cover for business coaches may include:

• Wrongful act, error or omission
• Negligence
• Inaccurate advice
• Defamation
• Fraud and dishonesty
• Lost documents
• Misleading or deceptive conduct
• Unintentional infringement of intellectual property rights
• Breach of duty

Claims can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions of dollars, therefore it is important that an adequate level of cover is chosen to protect against major financial loss, which will not only have an impact on your business but could also impact your personal assets.

Types of business coaching activities that may be covered with professional indemnity insurance*

• Strategic Business Planning
• Workflow Processes and Procedures
• Communications Coaching
• Human Resources / OH&S / Staff Recruitment & Training
• Marketing, Media, Advertising and Public Relations Consulting
• Business and leadership coaching
• Career coaching
• Corporate training
• Coaching teams

Business insurance pack for business coaches*

Business coaches may be able to combine multiple covers in a single business insurance pack policy.

By ‘packaging’ their business insurance into a ‘business pack’ business coaches can potentially cover many of the risks their business faces in the one policy.

For example, if a business coach has a commercial premises, a business insurance pack may provide cover for buildings and contents if they are accidentally damaged by a defined event, such as fire, storm, impact damage, accidental damage, vandalism, or malicious damage.

Other typical inclusions for business coaches with a business insurance pack are Public Liability & Products Liability Insurance.

If a client slips and fall down your stairs, badly injures themselves and claims against you, Public Liability Insurance may assist you.

Optional inclusions for business coaches with a business insurance pack are General Property, Contents including Fit Out, Theft, Glass, Business Interruption and Machinery Breakdown

For example, computers may be covered if burgled, and loss of profits may be covered under business interruption if caused by a defined event.

Multiple office locations may be able to be covered on the one business pack insurance policy.

Cyber Insurance for business coaches *

Your business’ computer system network contains confidential client data, which is a target for hackers.

Cyber insurance may protect your business if your client’s data is held at ransom, cyber extortion or even privacy breaches resulting from Cyber-attacks. 

Cyber insurance may cover costs resulting from a cyber incident, including IT forensics, virus extraction, customer/client notification costs and public relation costs.

Help reduce the impact of damages from a cyber event with cyber insurance – and keep your accounting firm going.

Management Liability Insurance for business coaches *

Management Liability Insurance may provide valuable protection for directors, for specified issues relating to Human Resources, OH & S and Statutory Liability.

Why do business coaches need public liability insurance?*

Public Liability Insurance coverage is essential for all business coaching operations.

People and property on site may be hurt or damaged due to accidents involving your business coach business activities.

Protections for business coaches through public liability insurance in Australia generally include:

1. Injury to other persons due to your business coaching activities – For example, a client is injured when they trip and fall in your business coach premises.
2. Damage to others property due to your business activities

Public liability insurance coverage may protect business coaches from claims that arise when others allege they are negligent.

A business coach’s public liability policy may provide a defence against the ensuing lawsuit when needed and may pay the damages sought by the injured party.

Public Liability Insurance may provide business coaches with protection for slip-and-trip accidents that occur at their offices.