IT Staffing: A Unique Set of Risks
IT staffing firms know the importance of pre-screening job applicants and conducting thorough background and reference checks. But even staffing firms that screen with care can end up facing a lawsuit....
View ArticleContracts You Need When Hiring a New Contractor
If you’re planning on using a subcontractor to perform IT work for one of your clients, you’ve got a lot at stake. Even if you carefully screen your subcontractor for experience and client references,...
View ArticleMatch Your Insurance to Your IT Business’s Risks
When you’re a technology professional shopping for business insurance, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the large number of available options. How do you determine what kinds of coverage you really...
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E&O Insurance for Subcontractors: Three Questions Answered
Errors and Omissions Insurance (also known as Professional Liability Insurance) covers professionals from mistakes they make during the course of doing business. E&O Insurance is generally...
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Outsourcing Tech Work? Make Sure You Know the Insurance Risks
For many small and startup technology firms, outsourcing work to 1099 contractors is an early step toward growth. Outsourcing is often the stepping stone between doing everything yourself and bringing...
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What Is Liability Insurance?
One essential component of a thriving technology company is business liability insurance adequate to protect against major financial and legal perils. But what is liability insurance, exactly?In the...
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Do I Need E&O Insurance for Every New Contract?
As we’ve mentioned on this blog before, Errors and Omissions (E&O) Insurance is often more important for small technology companies than others. But knowing you need E&O coverage and securing...
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Use a Coworking Space? Make Sure You Know the Risks
In recent years, coworking – the practice of freelancers and small-business owners working in communal spaces designed for that purpose – has risen precipitously in popularity. A survey of independent...
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Third-Party Vs. First-Party Cyber Risk Insurance: Protect Your IT Firm Right
As you put together a risk management plan for your IT or technology business, you’ll no doubt find that Cyber Risk Insurance (also known as Cyber Liability Insurance and Data Breach Insurance) is an...
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6 Crucial Tips for Hiring the Right Employees
For small IT firms, hiring can be a big headache. Often, the hiring process goes like this: your workload gets bigger an dbigger until you hit a breaking point and realize you need another person to...
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What’s in a Name? More Legal Fees Than You Can Shake a Stick At.
App developers, smartphone users, and techies of all sorts, rejoice: the Apple-vs.-Amazon showdown over who can use the name “App Store” (or “Appstore”) has ended. The winner? No one – or everyone,...
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IT Contractors & Business Owners: Why Hired & Non-Owned Auto Insurance Matters
Here at TechInsurance, we talk to a lot of independent computer programmers, designers, network administrators, and other IT professionals as we help them find the policies that protect their business...
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Independent Contractors: There’s No Place Like Home…for IT Business Exposures
If you’re like a lot of information technology contractors, you probably value your freedom: you like being able to set your own hours, be your own boss, and choose the projects that interest you most....
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Tinder Security Breach Highlights E&O Exposure for IT Contractors
Have you heard of Tinder? It’s a date-finding app for young professionals (many have observed that it brings the capabilities of Grinder to a wider market). Tinder takes a new spin on the idea that...
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Contracting Work? Check Independent Contractors’ Insurance Credentials
Do you have any idea whether your independent contractors are properly insured? You should. Uninsured contract workers expose your tech business to the same degree of risk as if you carried no...
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Outsourcing Tech Work? Make Sure You Know the Insurance Risks
For many small and startup technology firms, outsourcing work to 1099 contractors is an early step toward growth. Outsourcing is often the stepping stone between doing everything yourself and bringing...
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Contracting Work? Check Independent Contractors’ Insurance Credentials
Do you have any idea whether your independent contractors are properly insured? You should. Uninsured contract workers expose your tech business to the same degree of risk as if you carried no...
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$1.2 Million HITECH Fine Highlights Risks for IT Contractors Working with...
HealthcareITNews.com reports that Affinity Health Plan, a New York-based managed care provider, faces a Health and Human Services (HHS) fine of more than $1.2 million connected to a breach of patient...
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Outsourcing Tech Work? Make Sure You Know the Insurance Risks
For many small and startup technology firms, outsourcing work to 1099 contractors is an early step toward growth. Outsourcing is often the stepping stone between doing everything yourself and bringing...
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What Is Liability Insurance?
One essential component of a thriving technology company is business liability insurance adequate to protect against major financial and legal perils. But what is liability insurance, exactly?In the...
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