Recruitment Agencies Insurance
For a candidate, it can change a career. For a client, it can change a business. The right protection stands behind the agency making that connection happen.
Recruitment businesses sit between clients and candidates, handling confidential information, making professional introductions and working to demanding contractual requirements.
Whether you're an independent recruiter, specialist consultancy or growing agency, your insurance should reflect the type of recruitment you undertake and the way your business operates.
For recruitment businesses including:
Choose the protection that's relevant to your agency, your clients and the way you recruit.
Protection against eligible claims arising from professional services, advice or mistakes.
View Cover →Helps your business respond to cyber attacks, compromised candidate or client data and digital disruption.
View Cover →Helps protect against eligible claims involving injury to other people or damage to their property.
View Cover →Protection for employee injury or illness, and legally required for most UK employers.
View Cover →Helps protect directors and senior decision-makers against certain claims arising from management decisions.
View Cover →Support with certain contractual, employment and other covered legal issues.
View Cover →Recruitment agencies sit between clients and candidates with different expectations. That creates responsibilities around professional introductions, people visiting your business, confidential information and the contracts you accept.
A client may allege that an error in screening, referencing, vetting or another professional service caused them financial loss.
Interviews, meetings, events and office visitors can create Public Liability exposure if someone is accidentally injured or their property is damaged.
Recruiters can accept significant contractual responsibilities through client agreements, PSLs and procurement frameworks.
CVs, salaries, employment histories, identification and contact information make recruitment businesses particularly data-rich.
Supplying workers rather than simply making permanent introductions can create a different insurance profile and additional responsibilities.
See the cover options available for your recruitment business and build your quote online.
Eligible policies include access to practical legal support and business resources to help with the everyday challenges of running your business.
Speak to qualified solicitors about business-related legal issues, including client contracts, employment law, health & safety and other everyday legal questions.
Access ready-to-use contracts, policies, procedures, guides and templates designed to help with the practical and legal side of running your business.
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Professional Indemnity and Cyber can be particularly relevant to the professional services and information handled by recruiters. Public Liability, Employers' Liability, D&O and Legal Expenses may also be appropriate.
A client may allege that an error in candidate vetting, referencing, placement advice or another professional service caused them financial loss.
Recruitment businesses typically hold significant amounts of candidate and client information and rely heavily on digital systems.
Yes. Client contracts, PSLs and procurement frameworks can specify both the type and minimum level of insurance required.
Not necessarily. Insurance for your own employees and insurance relating to temporary workers or contractors supplied to clients can be different. If your business supplies workers rather than simply making permanent introductions, make sure your business activities are accurately described.
Many eligible recruitment agencies and consultants can arrange business insurance online. More complex staffing or workforce-supply models may need additional support.
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