Proffesional Indemnity Insurance

[christreeroot]

Who do you use?

 

Iwas just wondering who people use other than the usual suspects .....

[Paul Barton]

Bump.

 

Just looking in to getting some PI for the first time. Is it tricky to get if you are just starting out with surveys/reports?

[John Hancock]

I'll follow this thread. Although I'm L/A I do get the opportunity to survey privately, I've always turned it down till now but lately I’ve been thinking why the hell should I? Is it time to jump in at the deep-end?

[Mac McLennan]

Mines is free with TRUST INSURANCE up to 500,000

 

Comes with my employers/public liability £5million

[christreeroot]

I'll follow this thread. Although I'm L/A I do get the opportunity to survey privately, I've always turned it down till now but lately I’ve been thinking why the hell should I? Is it time to jump in at the deep-end?

 

 

I have just had an argument with a LA that how can they allow there tree officvers to carry out tree surveys privately when it is themselves who will assess the applications when they come in.... Licence to print money etc etc...

 

I am right that youy are on the tools John ? so thats fine in my view but when you are a tree officer/planning

 

 

Maybe i should put this as a seperate thread....

 

 

You should look to be paying £500+ depending on the level of cover and expected turnover. We are also covered for ecology, land engineering, land surveying and environmental surveys so we pay a fair bit more, but if you deal with just trees its not bad.

 

If you have proffesional memberships you can save as well.

[skyhuck]

Mines is free with TRUST INSURANCE up to 500,000

 

Comes with my employers/public liability £5million

 

 

But mines with Lycetts.

 

Got a nice surprise price fell by 25% this year!, which is nice

[John Hancock]

I have just had an argument with a LA that how can they allow there tree officvers to carry out tree surveys privately when it is themselves who will assess the applications when they come in.... Licence to print money etc etc...

 

I am right that youy are on the tools John ? so thats fine in my view but when you are a tree officer/planning

 

 

Maybe i should put this as a seperate thread....

 

 

 

 

Your right in your assumption that I'm not a 'Tree Officer' . I run the Arb department here in Worcester. If I were a Tree Officer I couldn't inspect trees within the city privately as that would be a conflict of interests. Simply wouldn't be cricket. I'm lucky in that I live miles from where I work; I would never p#55 in my own pool.

 

Tree officers and L/A tree teams can work for the private sector but we work as the 'L/A' and not ourselves.

[RPA]

My PL with NFU gives PI cover but only for verbal assesments NOT written. Make shure any free PL bolt on's are not the same before putting pen to paper!

[ukminch]

I've got half a mill with trust to. Having said that read the small print carefully. If your charging for the survey it won't be covered. If however yu do it as part of a job you are. It's more an indemnity against felling the wrong tree or something like that with trust.

 

Having said that companies offer it over the phone for about 300quid if you ring round for 1 million. My problem is that I'm not qualified to survey, but employ someone to do surveys and I needed PI for them.

 

Rob

[RPA]

I've got half a mill with trust to. Having said that read the small print carefully. If your charging for the survey it won't be covered. If however yu do it as part of a job you are. It's more an indemnity against felling the wrong tree or something like that with trust.

 

 

Rob

 

Too easy to take things at face value without checking what half hidden implications there may be.