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Choose from a variety of commercial business insurance options

At Guardian Angel 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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General Liability

Provides coverage for third-party claims related to bodily injury, property damage, and advertising injuries. General Liability covers injuries occurring on your business premises or business activities that cause damage to someone else’s property.

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.

Commercial Property

Covers damage to your business's physical assets such as buildings, equipment, inventory, and furniture. It protects against losses due to fire, theft, vandalism, and natural disasters, ensuring your business can recover and continue operations after an unexpected event.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Workers' Compensation

If your business has employees, workers’ compensation insurance is usually required by law in every state. It provides coverage for medical expenses, lost wages, and rehabilitation costs for employees who are injured on the job.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Environmental & Pollution Liability

Protects businesses from financial losses related to pollution incidents, including third-party claims for bodily injury, property damage, and cleanup costs. It covers legal fees, compensatory damages, and required or voluntary cleanup efforts.

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.

Professional Liability

Also known as Errors and Omissions (E&O) insurance, this policy provides coverage for claims arising from professional errors, negligence, or malpractice. It protects businesses and professionals against legal costs and damages associated with allegations of inadequate work or mistakes in the services provided to clients.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Worker's Compensation is not available in Washington. In Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) is the exclusive provider of workers’ compensation insurance. Private carriers cannot write workers’ comp coverage in Washington.

If a business has employees, they must:

  • Open an L&I account
  • Report payroll directly to L&I
  • Pay premiums directly to L&I

This coverage provides:

  • Medical benefits for injured employees
  • Wage replacement (time-loss benefits)
  • Disability benefits
  • Certain employer liability protections

However, this is where confusion happens. L&I does not provide full employer liability protection. This is why Stop Gap coverage is available.

What is Stop Gap Coverage?

Stop Gap is an endorsement added to the General Liability (GL) policy.

It provides Employer’s Liability coverage in Washington, filling the gap left by L&I.

Specifically, Stop Gap protects the employer if:

  • An injured employee sues outside of the workers’ comp system
  • A spouse files a loss of consortium claim
  • A third party sues the employer due to an employee injury
  • An employee alleges negligence beyond standard workers’ comp benefits

In other states, this employer liability coverage is automatically included in the workers’ comp policy (Part Two – Employers Liability).

In Washington, because L&I is monopolistic, that portion does not exist unless Stop Gap is added to the GL.

Why Employers Need Both

If a business has employees in Washington:

  • L&I (Workers’ Comp) covers: The employee’s injury benefits
  • Stop Gap (through GL) covers: The employer’s legal liability exposure

Without Stop Gap:

  • The employer has no protection against employee lawsuits
  • Many contracts will be non-compliant
  • The business has a major uncovered exposure
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