Contractor Insurance Requirements That Protect Your Home Investment
About this episode
Bill Reid discusses the importance of contractor insurance requirements and how homeowners can protect themselves from financial liability during construction projects.
Contractor insurance requirements protect you from the financial catastrophe most homeowners never see coming: when a worker gets hurt on your property and there's no valid insurance coverage to catch it. Those six-figure medical bills and lost wages don't disappear. They land on whoever forgot to check. And under premises liability law, that person can be you. GET YOUR FREE INSURANCE PROTECTION CHECKLIST Bill Reid walks you through the two insurance policies that stand between you and disaster — general liability and workers compensation — and gives you the exact four-step verification process to confirm coverage is real and current, not just claimed. WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER Most homeowners assume if someone gets hurt during construction, that's the contractor's problem. They've got insurance. And when everything is in order, that's true. But construction has a hard rule underneath it: when something goes wrong and there's no valid coverage to catch it, the law goes looking for the person with the assets. On your project, that person is you. This episode picks up directly from Episode 62, the Cash Trap conversation that struck a nerve with listeners. The contractor who offers to…
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