Thursday 17 April 2014

What Is Business Or Commercial Insurance?

By Maryl Joop


Anyone who operates a farm will say that it's difficult to mitigate losses and risk associated with running that farm. The last thing a farmer needs is for their crops to be destroyed or otherwise compromised, leaving them unable to fulfill their livelihood. Owning a farm and using that as a source of income is challenging, especially in times where multinational corporations dominate large segments of produce markets. One thing that must be remembered about this kind of insurance is that it's affordable, which means little time should be wasted before the farmer signs up for it.

Protecting Your Employees

Who Should Get Crop Insurance

Finding the Right Company

These amounts can vary depending on the scale of your business, but for many small businesses or commercial companies this is a good number to go by. If your company is responsible for more than one occurrence per year you will most likely cap out on the aggregate portion of your insurance coverage.

Here are a few things to consider as you seek to purchase crop insurance. First, you need to find a good crop insurance agent. Make sure to do your research with agents and speak to them about your needs. The right agent will help you immensely as you seek to get into the right policy for your crop production. Next, determine what kind of crop insurance your crops are eligible for. Talk to your agent about your operation and get as much information as you can about the various policies so that you can make the right decision for your operation. Once you decide on a policy, do all that you can to understand it. Read it; ask your agent questions, etc. You will want to know how that policy can help you in the case of an unfortunate circumstance. Finally, make sure you are current on your payments and that you meet the application deadlines outlined in the policy.

As a farmer shops around for the right farm liability insurance policy, they should look to see how much liability is associated with that policy. A smaller farm is naturally going to need a smaller amount of liability. Pretty soon that small farm will have grown well past the amount of liability from their original policy. At that time, the farm should revisit their policy and change this part. It would be a bad situation for the farm to run into an instance where they have incurred such a tremendous amount of expenses that their policy won't protect them. Determining how much liability is needed is arduous because few farms seldom know how much their assets are worth. This information ironically comes when the farm revisits what they need for their insurance policies.




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