Tree Surgeon Insurance
We have a specialist insurance scheme for both Tree Surgeons and Forestry Contractors.
The Tree Surgeon Insurance policy offers a very comprehensive range of cover at highly competitive premiums.
Call us on 01480 402 460 to our bespoke tree surgeon insurance policy.
Why invest in Tree Surgeon Insurance?
At a most basic level you need to ensure you protect yourself, your business and others from any incident that may arise as result of your occupation. Accidents and mistakes happen, even to the most careful of people. Increasingly injured parties are encouraged by TV ads, texts to their mobile phones or by family and friends to seek compensation.
Our tree surgeon insurance is able to cover all the jobs that you will usually undertake on a daily basis including:
- Felling
- Stump Removal & Grinding
- Planting
- Pruning
- Maintenance
- Hedge Cutting
- Site Clearance
- Surveys & Reports
Tree Surgeon Insurance Cover can be provided for: Public, Product and Employers Liability
- Limit of Indemnity – Public/Products Liability from £1,000,000, £2,000,000 or £5,000,000
- Employer’s Liability £10,000,000
- Professional Indemnity, if you provide advice for a fee, this cover is recommend e.g. tree reports for mortgage purposes or estate management. Cover can be provided from £250,000 to £1,000,000, according to your requirements and covers reports written by Principals, Directors and all employees.
- Loss of Plant and Equipment All risks cover on your own plant and equipment including whilst hired out. This extends anywhere in the UK and includes cover for plant hired-in.
- Personal Accident Principals, Directors and/or Employees can be provided with death/capital/weekly benefits and be covered 24 hour a day.
Tree Surgeon Insurance provides an indemnity up to your selected limit against the unpredictable cost of injuries and property damage involving directors, business partners, employees, labour only subcontractors and bona fide subcontractors who hold their own insurance.
Trees surgeon insurance will provide with you peace of mind.
Legal Definition of an Employee
Any person while working for you in connection with the business who is:
- Under a contract of service or apprenticeship with you.
- A person under a contract of service or apprenticeship with some other employer and who is hired to or borrowed by you.
- A labour master or person supplied by him.
- A person engaged by a labour only sub-contractor.
- A self employed person performing work under a similar degree of control and direction by you as a person under a contract of service or apprenticeship with you.
- A driver or operator of hired-in plant.
- A trainee or person undergoing work experience.
- A voluntary helper.
We are able to offer Tree surgeon insurance to Trees Surgeons, Arboriculturalists, Forestry Workers and Contractors and most Associated Trades.
Make sure that you buy the correct tree surgeon insurance cover for the job you do. On a number of occasions we have come across an Aboriculturist or Tree Surgeon who has bought a Landscape Gardeners policy which does not provide cover for work with chain saws or at height or many other aspects of their everyday work.
If you have any questions or doubts please talk to us. We will be only to pleased to discuss your needs, call us on 01480 402 460 ask to speak to a Tree Surgeon specialist.
