Policy designed to cover home-based tradesmen and professionals

Commercial lines underwriting organisation Arista has launched a policy to cover tradesmen and professionals, designed for businesses that generally do not have premises, typically home-based tradesmen or professionals.

The policy provides a wide range of optional covers including employers liability with optional working partners extension, tools and business equipment, and business contents.

Commenting on the product, Carl Steventon, head of liability at Arista, said: “This policy is typical of Arista’s promise to meet brokers’ needs, and illustrates the increasing diversity of Arista’s product range. It is a straightforward policy that brokers will find easy to sell: the policies are based on statement of fact and all documentation will be issued electronically for immediate e-mail on to clients.”