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- last updated 02/11/2016
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Professional Indemnity Insurance (a.k.a. Professional Liability
Insurance) is a form of liability insurance that helps
protect professional advice- and service-providing individuals and companies from bearing the full cost of defending
against a negligence claim made by a client, and damages awarded in such a civil lawsuit.
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) The coverage focuses on alleged failure to perform on the part of, financial loss caused by, and error or omission in
the service or product sold by the policyholder.
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) These are causes for legal action that would not be covered by a more
general liability insurance policy which addresses more direct forms of harm