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Choose from a variety of commercial business insurance options
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At RT Thomas Insurance, we’re committed to making sure your business is protected with the right coverage, carefully aligned with your risk exposure and business operations. Our role is to understand your unique business and deliver tailored insurance solutions that evolve as your business grows.
Types of business insurance
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Business Owners Policy
Combines general liability and property insurance into one package tailored for small to medium-sized businesses. It covers property damage, bodily injury, and business interruption, offering protection against claims arising from accidents on your premises and damage to your business property.
Commercial Auto
Provides coverage for vehicles used in the course of business. It includes liability for bodily injury and property damage caused by business vehicles, as well as physical damage, theft, vandalism, and accidents. It ensures protection for company-owned or leased vehicles and employees driving them.
Cyber Liability
Offers coverage for data breaches and cyberattacks, protecting businesses against financial losses from data theft, system hacks, and cyber extortion. It includes costs for legal fees, notification expenses, credit monitoring for affected customers, and public relations efforts to manage the breach's impact.
Commercial Umbrella
Provides additional liability coverage beyond the limits of your existing general liability, commercial auto, and other liability policies. It offers extra protection against large claims or lawsuits, covering costs that exceed the underlying policy limits, ensuring broader financial security for your business.
Builder's Risk
Covers buildings and structures under construction, providing protection against damage from fire, theft, vandalism, and certain weather events. It includes coverage for materials, equipment, and supplies on-site, in transit, or stored off-site, ensuring your construction project is safeguarded until completion.
Commercial Package Policy
Combines various coverages into a single policy, including property, liability, and business interruption. It allows businesses to tailor their insurance needs, offering flexibility and potential cost savings. This policy is ideal for businesses with diverse insurance requirements, ensuring comprehensive protection.
Business Interruption
Provides coverage for lost income and operating expenses if your business is temporarily unable to operate due to a covered event like fire, natural disaster, or other disruptions. It helps cover payroll, rent, and other ongoing expenses, ensuring your business can recover and maintain financial stability during the interruption.
Directors & Officers
Offers liability coverage for the directors and officers of a company, protecting them against claims arising from decisions and actions performed within their corporate roles. It covers legal fees, settlements, and other costs associated with allegations of wrongful acts, ensuring personal assets are safeguarded.
Product Liability
Provides coverage for claims related to injuries or damages caused by products manufactured, sold, or distributed by your business. It protects against financial loss due to product defects, design flaws, or inadequate warnings, ensuring your business can handle legal costs and settlements arising from product-related incidents.
Employment Practices Liability
Provides coverage for claims arising from employment-related issues such as wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. It protects your business against legal costs and settlements, ensuring financial security in the face of allegations made by employees regarding their rights and treatment in the workplace.
Inland Marine
Covers goods, tools, and equipment transported over land. It protects against losses from damage, theft, or loss during transit or while stored at locations other than the insured's primary premises. This insurance also covers specialized equipment and property frequently moved or used off-site.
Surety Bonds
Guarantee that a contractor or business will fulfill its obligations to a third party. They protect against losses resulting from a failure to meet contractual terms, ensuring project completion or financial compensation. Common in construction and service industries, they enhance trust and reliability.
Contractor’s Tools and Equipment
Insures tools and equipment owned or used by contractors against damage, theft, or loss. This coverage ensures that essential equipment is protected while in transit, on job sites, or in storage, allowing contractors to maintain operations without financial setbacks due to equipment issues.
Crime Insurance
Safeguards businesses against financial losses resulting from criminal activities such as theft, fraud, embezzlement, and forgery. It provides coverage for money, securities, and other property, helping businesses recover from losses caused by employees or third parties, ensuring financial stability and security.
Hired & Non-Owned Auto
Protects businesses against liability for accidents involving vehicles they rent (hired) or do not own (non-owned) but use for business purposes. This coverage extends to vehicles used by employees for company business, providing financial protection against claims for bodily injury and property damage.
Liquor Liability
Offers protection for businesses that manufacture, sell, or serve alcohol. It covers claims related to damages or injuries caused by an intoxicated person who was served by the business, including legal fees, medical costs, and settlements, ensuring financial protection against alcohol-related incidents.
Equipment Breakdown
Ensures business continuity by protecting critical equipment from unexpected failures by covering the cost to repair or replace essential equipment that breaks down due to mechanical, electrical, or pressure system failures. It also includes coverage for business income losses, spoiled inventory, and extra expenses incurred during the restoration period.
Garage Keepers
Protects businesses against damage or theft of customers’ vehicles while in their care, custody, or control. This includes coverage for vehicles during service, repair, storage, or parking. It offers protection against fire, vandalism, collision, and theft, ensuring financial security for automotive businesses such as repair shops, body shops, and parking services.
Special Events
Covers liabilities and potential losses associated with hosting events such as weddings, concerts, or corporate functions. It provides protection against accidents, property damage, and cancellations, ensuring that event organizers are financially safeguarded against unforeseen incidents that could impact the success of the event.
Medical Malpractice
Covers healthcare professionals against claims of negligence causing injury or death. It includes legal fees, settlement costs, and damages. Policies can be claims-made or occurrence-based, providing essential protection for doctors, nurses, and other medical staff to prevent personal financial loss from lawsuits.
Media Liability
Provides protection for media professionals against claims of defamation, invasion of privacy, copyright infringement, and other related risks. It covers legal defense costs, settlements, and damages arising from content created or distributed by media entities, ensuring financial protection and operational continuity for media businesses.
Business & Commercial Insurance Information
Commercial Auto
As a business owner, you need the same kinds of insurance coverages for the car you use in your business as you do for a car used for personal travel -- liability, collision and comprehensive, medical payments (known as personal injury protection in some states) and coverage for uninsured motorists. In fact, many business people use the same vehicle for both business and pleasure. If the vehicle is owned by the business, make sure the name of the business appears on the policy as the "principal insured" rather than your name. This will avoid possible confusion in the event that you need to file a claim or a claim is filed against you.
Whether you need to buy a business auto insurance policy will depend on the kind of driving you do. A good insurance agent will ask you many details about how you use vehicles in your business, who will be driving them and whether employees, if you have them, are likely to be driving their own cars for your business.
While the major coverages are the same, a business auto policy differs from a personal auto policy in many technical respects. Ask your insurance agent to explain all the differences and options.
General Liability
If you have a personal umbrella liability policy, there's generally an exclusion for business-related liability. Make sure you have sufficient auto liability coverage.
Unfortunately for every business owner, the chances of getting sued have dramatically increased in the last decade. General Liability insurance can prevent a legal suit from turning into a financial disaster by providing financial protection in case your business is ever sued or held legally responsible for some injury or damage.
General Liability pays losses arising from real or alleged bodily injury, property damage, or personal injury on your business premises or arising from your operations.
Broad Range of General Liability Protection
- Bodily Injury, including the cost of care, the loss of services, and the restitution for any death that results from injury
- Property Damage coverage for the physical damage to property of others or the loss of use of that property
- Products-Completed Operations provides liability protection (damages and legal expenses up to your policy's limit) if an injury ever resulted from something your company made or service your company provided
- Products Liability is a more specialized product liability insurance that protects your company against lawsuits from product-related injury or accidents
- Contractual Liability extends to any liability you may assume by entering into a variety of contracts
- Other coverage includes: Reasonable Use of Force; Borrowed Equipment; Liquor Liability; Non-Owned Vehicles (such as aircraft and watercraft); Fire, Lightning or Explosion Damage; Water Damage Liability Protection; Legal Defense Costs; Medical Payments; Personal Injury; Advertising Injury; and specialized liability protection for specific business types
Workers Compensation
Workers compensation laws were created to ensure that employees who are injured on the job are provided with fixed monetary awards. This eliminates the need for litigation and creates an easier process for the employee. It also helps control the financial risks for employers since many states limit the amount an injured employee can recover from an employer.
Workers Compensation Insurance is designed to help companies pay these benefits. As a protection for employees, most states require that employers carry some form of Workers Compensation Insurance. Workers Compensation Insurance is not health insurance. Workers Compensation is designed specifically for injuries sustained on the job.
In most states, if you have employees, you are required to carry Workers Compensation coverage. Even in non-mandatory states, it can be a very good idea, particularly if you have many employees, or if they are engaged in hazardous activities.
Do I need workers compensation insurance?
Employers have a legal responsibility to their employees to make the workplace safe. However, accidents happen even when every reasonable safety measure has been taken.
To protect employers from lawsuits resulting from workplace accidents and to provide medical care and compensation for lost income to employees hurt in workplace accidents, in almost every state, businesses are required to buy workers compensation insurance. Workers compensation insurance covers workers injured on the job, whether they're hurt on the workplace premises or elsewhere, or in auto accidents while on business. It also covers work-related illnesses.
Workers compensation provides payments to injured workers, without regard to who was at fault in the accident, for time lost from work and for medical and rehabilitation services. It also provides death benefits to surviving spouses and dependents.
Each state has different laws governing the amount and duration of lost income benefits, the provision of medical and rehabilitation services and how the system is administered. For example, in most states there are regulations that cover whether the worker or employer can choose the doctor who treats the injuries and how disputes about benefits are resolved.
Workers compensation insurance must be bought as a separate policy. Although in-home business and business owners policies (BOPs) are sold as package policies, they don't include coverage for workers' injuries.





