By purchasing snow removal insurance, it is an absolute necessity to have due to the potential likelihood of incidents that could occur during the snow removal process or afterwards.
The importance of having the proper insurance to defend your snow removal business By Johna Autencio, Digital Marketing, Oracle RMS Insurance Brokers Although we are officially in the early stages of the spring
extraordinary high risk work. By purchasing snow removal
season, we find that we are still having winter weather of
insurance, it is an absolute necessity to have due to the
cold temperatures and snow. As snow continues to fall and
potential likelihood of incidents that could occur during the
stick to the ground, that is when snow removal contractors
snow removal process or afterwards.
come to the rescue.
For example, the biggest risk a snow removal business faces
By hiring a snow removal contractor, it will eliminate the
is slip and falls. This type of incident can allegedly occur
need to constantly shovel, as it will save plenty of time. In
whether you performed a decent job or not, and will almost
addition, quality service will be provided the moment there
always result in a lawsuit.
is a snowfall. However, before a contract has been declared,
“The main operation of a snow removal business is to
it is important to make sure that every snow removal
prevent people from slipping and falling. It is important to
contractor is insured.
disclose what types of business that you service, whether it is residential, commercial, or industrial, and have your true
Why should snow removal contractors have insurance?
receipts [so] in case something does happen, you’ll have the
With that being said, if you are a snow removal contractor, it
an account executive at Oracle RMS.
is known that operating a snow removal business involves
In 2017, there have been over 9,000 individuals in Canada
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proper insurance to defend yourself,” says Daniel Italiano,
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