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Nov 19

Renting Your Home to Others

By Personal Insurance

Liabilities of Renting Your Home

If you are considering renting out your home, take the following considerations to heart before doing so.

Renting To Do’s

  • Draw up a rental agreement that defines the terms of the rental, including restrictions, liabilities and occupancy guidelines.
  • Ask for references from potential renters, especially those that will stay for a while.
  • Request a security deposit to be refunded if there is no damage to your home.
  • Contact B+H Insurance, LLC about your plan to rent out your home and ask about how this may affect your current coverage.
  • If you are renting for a long period of time, consider hiring a “property manager” to look out for your house while you are away.

Protecting Your Personal Property

  • Set aside a locked place in your home to store personal items such as clothing and valuables.
  • Take valuable items to a locked storage facility, a family member’s home or a bank vault.
  • Change alarm codes after you are done renting.
  • Provide keys to only one door of your residence so that you have to change only one lock after the renters leave.
  • Photograph and videotape all areas of your home before the rental takes place in case damage occurs while you are away.
  • Tell your neighbors that you are renting and ask that they watch over your home.
  • Have your mail forwarded or held until you return.
  • Provide your contact information for both the renters and your neighbors in case of an emergency.
  • Provide the renters with a list of service providers, such as plumbers and electricians, in case of a water leak or furnace failure.

Contact B+H Insurance, LLC at 302-995-2247 today to learn more about the risks of renting your home.

Jun 21

How Can You Be Better Prepared for an Audit?

By Business Insurance, Business Tools, Insurance

Audits Don’t Have to Be Scary

Take a look at this video that was designed to help you understand General Liability and Workers Compensation Audits. Understanding the Audit Process can help you be better prepared for future Audits to come.

Click the link below for a helpful checklist to make sure you have everything you need!

Audit Checklist

 

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May 08

Is Employment Practices Liability Insurance Necessary?

By Business Insurance, Specialty Insurance

From hiring new workers to assigning duties, each of your decisions affects employees in a unique way. Although these actions are critical to running your business, they also create exposures that could lead to costly claims by employees or governmental regulators. Even if they are not warranted, claims for wrongful employment practices can disrupt operations, damage your business’s reputation, hurt employee morale and negatively impact your bottom line.

Thankfully, businesses can rely on employment practices liability (EPL) insurance to protect against a wide range of wrongful employment practices claims, including wrongful termination, discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation.
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Mar 08

Is Your Company Liable for Business-Related Vehicle Accidents?

By Business Insurance

Regardless of the industry you operate in, it’s likely your employees need to operate vehicles for tasks like client visits, product deliveries, and product pickups. While larger organizations often provide insured company vehicles to their staff for daily use, small and medium-sized business often don’t have that luxury.

If employees use personal vehicles for business-related activities and get into an accident, your organization could be held liable. That’s why it’s critical to have non-owned auto liability insurance, which can provide the following benefits:

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