Premium Funding: Making your business insurance cover more affordable
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Premium Funding: Making your business insurance cover more affordable

When it comes to your engineering firm’s business insurance premium, it can often be an inconveniently large lump sum. Premium Funding payment solutions can help to free up your company’s finances, enabling you to put them to more productive and immediate uses by investing in areas that directly impact the growth of your business. What…

Mandatory Data Breach Notification laws: Tips to protect your business
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Mandatory Data Breach Notification laws: Tips to protect your business

22 February, 2018 saw the Australian Government enact the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme, requiring any organisation affected by a serious data breach to notify all individuals whose information may have been compromised. Non-compliance may result in heavy fines and penalties being imposed on both businesses and individual directors. This article covers the full impact…

5 important tips for claiming on your Professional Indemnity Insurance
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5 important tips for claiming on your Professional Indemnity Insurance

In our experience, there are 5 common areas we see clients being let down by their Professional Indemnity (PI) policy. With allegations against engineers for breaches of professional duty becoming increasingly common, it is essential your PI insurance responds to provide financial protection in the event of a claim. Unfortunately, unwanted “hiccups” often occur come claim…

Professional Indemnity Insurance – Frequently Asked Questions
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Professional Indemnity Insurance – Frequently Asked Questions

Why is PI insurance required? Professionals such as engineers are considered experts in their field, and as such are presenting themselves as having special skills or expertise on which members of the community can rely. This reliance attracts a duty of care. If a professional engineer breaches their duty of care by making an error…