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Professional indemnity insurance for Recruitment Consultants protects you.
As a Recruitment Consultant, you source candidates for your clients, screen, select and place them in appropriate roles, ensuring that they are successfully implemented in their new environment. In order to be successful you need to have a thorough understanding of your clients’ requirements.
If your client feels that you have not provided suitable candidates for example, or that you have breached confidentiality, then they can place a claim against you. Whilst placement of administrative staff is considered a fairly low risk due to lower salaries and expectations, if you are involved in head hunting for executive/ director level then there will be a greater level of responsibility on you to ensure confidentiality, suitability and that candidates have a suitable background i.e., qualifications, experience, previous employment history, references etc.
It is also becoming increasingly common for recruitment consultants to enter into contracts whereby they are vicariously liable for the actions of the personnel supplied. This presents an extra risk to insurers, but we have access to schemes that can offer Professional Indemnity cover, including or excluding Vicarious Liability cover.
For further information on all aspects of professional indemnity insurance for Recruitment Consultants, please contact us today.
Things we look for
- Company Size – the overall size of the firm, based on total turnover, is taken into consideration.
- Type of business – insurers will want to know the split of annual income derived from the proportion of temporary and permanent staff. Clerical and office-based staff are considered low risk. Trades such as medical, nursing, community care staff, heavy industrial, railway, aviation, petrochemical, offshore workers, financial and banking, fall into the high-risk category.
- Qualifications – insurers will most likely want to see the CV belonging to the core people within the firm, demonstrating they have a minimum of five years’ experience.
- Contract size – with reference to large contracts, insurers will be interested in the extent of the recruitment consultant responsibilities and whether they are adequately resourced.
- Claims – if there is a history of PI claims then this usually reflects the quality of the consultant, their staff and their internal risk management.
- Overseas Exposure – insurers are interested in knowing if the recruitment agent deals with clients overseas due to the potential litigious nature of dealing with clients in those particular countries.
- Retroactive Exposure – does the practice have an exposure to claims in the current firm or a former practice arising from past work?
Policy coverage
A typical Professional Indemnity Insurance Policy for Recruitment Consultants will normally cover the following areas:
- Breach of Civil Liability
- Negligent act, error or omission
- Negligence of sub-contractors
- Irrecoverable fees
- Bodily injury or property damage arising from breach of professional duty
- Defence costs
- Unintentional intellectual property rights infringement (other than patents)
- Unintentional breach of confidentiality
- Unintentional defamation
- Loss of third-party documents or data
- Computer virus transmission
- Court attendance costs
Your policy coverage may vary between insurer.
Insurance types
Professional Indemnity
- Professional Indemnity provides cover for claims that arise as a result of the work you have completed or advice you have given.
Public Liability
- Public Liability provides cover should members of the public receive an injury or property damage due to your work. This protects your business should a compensation claim be made, also covering any legal costs that result from this.
Employers’ Liability
- Employers’ Liability provides cover for compensation claims and associated legal costs, arising from employee injury or work-related illness.
Cyber Insurance
- Cyber Insurance provides support in the event of cyber-crime and unintentional data breaches, offering cover against the cost of revenue and fines.
Directors and Officers
- Directors and Officers insurance policies protect you financially against any claims that are made against you personally in your position as a director, partner or officer of your business.
Legal expenses insurance
- If you were involved in a legal battle, knowing that any money you spend on legal bills would be reimbursed could make all the difference. Legal expenses insurance does just that. It ensures that your business remains financially stable after a legal case by helping to compensate the business for incurred costs.
Contact us to find out more about the right cover for your business.
