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Professional Indemnity Insurance

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Wed, 2008-06-18 12:14
J J
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Hello,

I am about to start a contract job in the UK as a project planner, but the company have requested me to provide a professional indemnity insurance to cover the cost of any possible future claims against me due to my mistakes / omissions.
Is this the general practice in the UK? Do usually companies require such insurance for contract planners?
I would appreciate your comments.

Thank you.
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Mon, 2008-06-23 07:33
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Brian Fletcher
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Yes generally most of the agencies I have worked through request this. It is fairly hard to track down companies that specifically cover Planners or Planning Engineers. I used a company called Insurance2day for my PI and my employers & public Liability Insurance and they seem ok.

You will need to call them rather than get a standard policy to explain exactly what you are doing. If you are mainly office based rather than out on site doing work I would mention this as soon as you mention construction sites to Insurance they see £ signs!!
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Thu, 2008-06-19 03:48
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Tarek Barham
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Dear J J.

It is very strange, Im worrking in planning and cost control since 8 years ago, and no company asked me bofre for this kind of insurance.

Although Im working now with 3 Billion USD project , but still no body asked this king of things.

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