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  • Home Business Insurance

    Running a business from home?

    Make sure you and your customers are protected
    with our specialist home business insurance

  • Home Business Insurance

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    We insure all kinds of businesses right across the UK and we guarantee to beat any quote for the same cover. Terms and conditions apply

  • Home Business Insurance

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    Our home business insurance includes contents,
    products and public liability as standard.

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Home Business Insurance

Home business insurance. Make sure you and your customers are protected.

Do you keep stock at home, work off-site at clients’ properties or deal with the public in anyway during the course of your work?

Whether you provide a service, sell or make a product, work alone in your spare time or employ 6 people full-time – if you’re working out of your home or using it as a base for your business, your home insurance may not be enough to cover you, and you need specialist home business cover.

Direct Line for Business’s simple, off-the-shelf Business from Home insurance is designed specifically to provide peace of mind for any potential liability you could have to customers, cover you for loss of stock or equipment, and also loss of earnings if anything happened that meant you couldn’t work.

High level of standard cover…

With our home business insurance, you can also increase many of the standard limits.

Public and products liability up to
£2m
Business contents and stock cover up to
£75k
Loss of trade up to
£50k
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Standard cover

Optional extras - extend your cover

Public and products liability up to £2m
Why do I need public & products liability cover?

 

Business contents and stock cover for any amount up to £75,000 (e.g. office furniture and equipment)
Why do I need this

 

If you can’t trade due to an insured event such as a fire or flood, cover for loss of income up to £50,000 over a 12 month period

 

Cover for theft of business money at home or in transit

 

Buildings cover up to £500,000 (can include home, workshop or outbuildings within your property boundaries)

 

Employers' liability cover up to £10m
Why do I need Employers' liability?

 

Portable business equipment away from your premises (e.g. laptops and mobile phones).

 

Legal expenses

 

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We won't be beaten on price - guaranteed.

We guarantee to beat any quote for the same cover. Terms and conditions apply. You can also enjoy 0% interest on your monthly payments for the first year to keep your cash flowing. (Subject to status. 18s and over. 0% APR representative.)

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Is this cover right for me?

Our home business insurance specialists are on hand to make sure you have the right level of cover. Call 0845 303 1739

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Direct Line general insurance policies are underwritten by U K Insurance Limited. Registered office: The Wharf, Neville Street, Leeds LS1 4AZ.
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