Insurance for Professionals

Quick, comprehensive insurance cover for professionals

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If you’re a professional that offers advice or services that might be complex or open to miscalculation, our dedicated insurance for professionals can mitigate your enhanced risk. Popular amongst accountants, surveyors, architects and solicitors, it provides cover to liability from an omission or error in any advice you provide. Our professionals insurance can cover you for a lot of things including negligence, mistakes or bad advice; misplacement of confidential material; infringement of intellectual property rights. Although not compulsory, some professional bodies even require you to hold things like professional indemnity insurance cover if you want to be a member, as it provides additional protection from defamation, libel or slander of your client, their company or their character.

Benefits

Quick

Simply tell us what you cover you want and receive your quote within 5 minutes in most cases.

Affordable

We use our knowledge, experience and relationships to get the best quotes with no hidden costs.

Customised

No two businesses are the same so no two policies are either. We tailors yours to your needs.

Protecting yourself

We cover lots of things including negligence, mistakes or bad advice; misplacement of confidential material; infringement of intellectual property rights; protection from defamation, libel or slander of your client, their company or their character; intentional or accidental sharing of confidential information; unintentional breach of confidence; and financial loss as a result of any of the above.

Protecting your property

We can also cover you for things like rent, rates, gross profits, revenue and any increases in your cost of working. It can even provide cover for the hire of an alternative premises salaries, transport; and alternative premises hire. And, in the event of a fire within your premises, it can pay for reinstatement of your building, stock, fixtures and fittings.

Protecting your employees

If you have employees, we can cover you if they become injured, ill or even die while they are employed by you and your company. As you know, no matter how hard you try to reduce risks, accidents can happen in any business. It also covers you should an employee look for expenses or damages following an incident connected to your business.

FAQs

Who needs Professional Indemnity Insurance?

If you’re considering professional indemnity insurance policy, you should first consider what you need to protect. For starters, think about the work that you carry out and how a customer could suffer a financial loss as a result of any mistake you might make. Next, consider the policy defence limit and whether or not it will cover your individual needs. One final thing to consider is that all professional indemnity insurers insist that you to pay an excess. It is often relatively low but you should definitively factor either way.

Should I have Public Liability Insurance?

Yes, we would recommend that all companies, individuals, committees or anyone who interacts with members of the public, take out a Public Liability Policy to protect themselves.

Why choose Sound Insurance?

It’s simple, we’re Sound. Sound people. Sound prices. Sound advice. We know insurance can be a pain to deal with and you have more important things to do. So, if you just tell us what you do and provide a few details, we’ll take care of the rest.

Can I pay by Direct Debit?

Yes you can. We work with some insurers that have their own direct debit facility. That allows you to pay them directly. And for those that don’t, we work with numerous insurance finance providers, which allows you to spread the cost of your insurance over the policy period.

Are Sound Insurance tied to one company?

No, we work with nearly all the main insurers in the Irish and UK markets. That gives us access to over 50 leading insurers.

I need cover straight away, how long does it take?

At Sound Insurance we know that time is precious. So, we won’t take too much of it from you. We do everything over the phone and in most cases, cover can be arranged in minutes, with your certificate being emailed to you straight away.

Why we’re trusted by professionals like you

Small businesses like yours are the backbone of Ireland’s economy and deserve the best attention and care from their insurance provider. As a ‘direct broker’, we combine the speed and efficiency of an insurance company, with the insider expertise and customer service of a broker.

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You simply tell us what cover you want. We’ll then contact you to quickly confirm what you need. We’ll then go get your quote and usually get it to you within 5 minutes.

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