Understanding PI insurance: How to stay covered
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Understanding PI insurance: How to stay covered

Professional indemnity (PI) insurance can keep you covered for past projects and well into the future, as long as you follow some key rules. An engineer, in their daily work, sells themselves to their client as an expert. The client relies on the engineer to provide trusted professional advice and make decisions on their behalf…

Professional Indemnity Insurance Tips
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Professional Indemnity Insurance Tips

Know what to look out for when it comes to Professional Indemnity Insurance… 1. Business activities Your business description MUST accurately describe your business activities. Example: To an insurer, a mechanical engineer working on the mines has a very different risk exposure to a mechanical engineer working on building services. Failing to adequately disclose the…

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…