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Get to Know Extensions: Adding Fidelity to Professional Indemnity (a red arrow pointing out one bad person out of all the good people.)

Get to Know Extensions: Adding Fidelity to Professional Indemnity

As an insurance broker, you are well aware of the risks faced by your clients, especially when it comes to employee theft. Your clients have invested significant time and resources into building their businesses, and it only takes one employee's dishonest act to cause financial devastation. That's why it's important...
Celebrating 1 Year of Professional Indemnity on the SCTP

Celebrating 1 Year of Professional Indemnity on the SCTP

Berkley Insurance Australia (BIA) is proud to celebrate its 1-year anniversary as a provider of Professional Indemnity on the Steadfast Client Trading Platform (SCTP). Our commitment to offering top-notch service for our clients has made us a leading provider of both General Liability and Professional Indemnity Insurance. We are grateful...
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What is a ‘named insured’ and ‘interested party’

Every industry comes with its own jargon and terminology, but as an insurance professional, you’ll probably agree that ours seem to have a particularly special amount of terms that are not as straightforward as they sound, or that overlap with other, similar sounding definitions. But insurance contracts are all about...
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Online Insurance Simplified with bindIT

With most of us slowly getting back to our desks for 2023 it’s time to start thinking about work again. And since it’s the new year, it’s also the time to figure out ways to do things better (new year’s resolutions and all that). But let’s be honest, after Black...
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IT Cover | It’s more than you think

IT Liability.  For some confusing or even scary.  But, there is nothing to fear.  If you don’t know much about this product, then this article should help you get your foot in the door as far as IT Liability is concerned. Two Becomes One An IT Liability policy issued by...
Get to Know Extensions | Product Recall (A Business person in the factory smiling to the camera)

Get to Know Extensions | Product Recall

What is a General Liability Product Recall Extension? There can be expensive repercussions for a business if their product is defective or suspected to have a defect that may cause bodily injury or property damage. If a product is a risk to safety, a business may be required to notify...
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Management Liability – Beware of the Office Christmas Party

The end of the calendar year brings around annual holiday season celebrations for most offices. These celebrations can be a great way for colleagues to come together and reflect on the year that was and the holiday activities ahead. This is also the time of year where there can be...
Berkley Insurance Australia is donate $1 for every policy we bound in December to the Heart Foundation

BIA Supports Heart Foundation this December

Throughout the year, Berkley Insurance Australia is proud to partner with some of Australia’s most inspiring and hardworking research and charity organisations. This year we’ve been proud to support the important work that Dementia Australia are doing, as well as the pioneering research being done by the only specialist research...
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All About Director IDs

Legislation was introduced over 12 months ago requiring a director to verify their identity and receive a director identification number (director ID). A director ID is a 15-digit number given to a director (or someone who intends to become a director) who has verified their identity with Australian Business Registry...