Icon Insurance specialises in insurance policies for smaller and growing businesses: cover for the home office, small office-based business insurance, Professional Indemnity cover (including SecurITy for IT professionals) and Lawsuit legal expenses cover. Our products and services are available on-line and/or off-line to businesses and residents of the United Kingdom

SecurITy is an insurance solution designed specifically for the IT industry.

Most Professional Indemnity policies only give you cover for claims arising out of the provision of a service. If a court decides that what you have provided is a product, such policies will not provide the vital protection needed.

Could such a situation arise?
It already has. An IT company supplied a community charge administration system for a local authority. Due to an error in the software, the number of taxpayers was overstated and the authority was left out of pocket as a result. During the case, the court said that it thought software should probably be treated as a product for legal purposes - and the IT company lost.

With SecurITy, you're covered whether software is regarded by the law as a product or a service.

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