Claim Scenarios
Types of Claim Scenarios
At EasyCover, we’re committed to making Professional Liability Insurance as easy to understand as possible. To assist with showing how Professional Liability Insurance might assist, following are some potential professional liability claims scenarios:
Possible Claims Scenarios
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Conflict of Interest:
Maintaining a professional, personal or financial relationship that may provide an unfair benefit to someone who is in a decision-making position.
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Professional Negligence:
Committing a negligent error while carrying out a professional service and the error causes financial loss to someone else.
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Defamation, libel, slander, product or character disparagement
Creating advertising material that a client’s competitor feels is false and harms their reputation.
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Breach of confidentiality
A client’s confidential information is accidentally emailed to a third party who uses this information to steal the client’s identity.
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Infringement of intellectual property rights
A client’s competitor claims the advertisement you created uses the competitor’s tagline and product without permission.