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Data Analysis Insurance

Top Business Policies For The Canadian Data Analyst

Do you love working with numbers? Spending hours on top of hours analyzing data and using that data to come up with sound decisions? If So, it sounds like you’d make the perfect data analyst. As a data analyst, it will be your job to find pertinent data that can be used for the betterment of your business clients. You’ll use that information to help them make specific business decisions. Maybe it is a decision about making an investment. Maybe it is a decision as to how to proceed in a certain business arrangement. Whatever the situation is, it’ll be your job to compile pertinent data and use that data to help your clients make specific decisions.

While this can no doubt be a lucrative and rewarding career path, it is also one that does come along with some major risks. Risks that could not only put your entire business in peril but one that could put your family’s financial future at risk. This is especially true for those people that use this business to support their families. Couple this with being your family’s sole financial provider, and it makes the situation all that much riskier. Luckily, there are tech company insurance policies that can protect these specific situations. What policies are these and how exactly can they help?

 

Why Errors And Omissions Insurance Policies

Regardless of all the policies available to you, it is probably the errors and omissions insurance policy that is the most important. Why is this policy more important than the others? To say that it is more important than the others might be a bit of a stretch, but it is without a doubt one of the more important policies. This is because it protects you in the event of oversight or negligence. You might have been composing data for years, you might be more careful than most, and you might take extra special precautions to ensure that you don’t make mistakes, but that doesn’t mean you’ll never make one.

Even the most knowledgeable of data analysts make mistakes. Mistakes that lead to thousands of dollars of lost revenue for your customers. Do you know where this will lead? To a lawsuit or you having to pay for the lost revenue. Heck, your client could just claim that you caused them lost revenue and sue. Whether the charges are founded or not, the case could get tied up in the Canadian court system for years. The longer the case stays in the court systems, the more money you’ll spend.

You’ll pay court-related costs, deposition fees, retainers, and more. These are charges that could cripple some smaller companies. Regardless of the situation, these are situations that you’ll want to avoid. While you might not be able to completely void them, you can skip the potential financial peril with errors and omissions insurance. This policy protects you in the event that you make an oversight that leads to your client losing revenue. It’ll not only cover the lost revenue, but it’ll cover any court-related costs in the event that the customer does want to sue.

 

Why Cyber Liability Insurance Policies

As a data analyst, you’ll be doing a lot of work online. You’ll probably be researching data, storing customer’s information, and doing all kinds of other things. Simply put, you’ll be spending a lot of time on your computer and the Internet where you’ll also be storing pertinent information. There is nothing wrong with this, as it is a very common practice today. However, any time you do anything online, there are risks associated. The more you have to lose, the greater the risks you’ll be at. Just imagine if someone breaches your firewall or encryption software and gets your customer’s data or personal information.

It would do tons of harm to your client’s business should they choose to manipulate such data. That’s exactly where cyber liability insurance comes in handy. This policy will cover fraud detection and monitoring services, client notifications after a data breach, and most importantly, lawsuits from clients affected by such breaches.

 

Why Fidelity Bonds

Many data analyst firms choose to bring on employees. Although you might be able to run an entire firm by yourself, there is nothing wrong with bringing on additional help. Sometimes additional help will allow you to take on more work and maximize your revenue. However, bringing on more employees does come along with additional risks. There is always the chance that an employee might steal your customer’s data or information. Regardless of the background checks and screens that you run, there is always the potential of hiring a dishonest employee. The best ones are the hardest ones to spot.

Regardless, this is once again a situation that will end up costing you, your business, and potentially your family thousands of dollars. If the case ends up in the court system, it’ll likely even cost more, potentially crippling your business. This is something that fidelity bonds can prevent. This type of coverage will protect you against unlawful data access by employees, illegal money transfers by employees, and other employee-related thefts.

Once again, the policy will also protect you in the event that the client wants to sue over the incident.

 

Why BOP Or Business Owner’s Policy

It doesn’t matter how much research you do or how much you think you know about business insurance, there are times when you’ll get confused. This is simply because Canadian business insurance is confusing. And, part of the reason that it is confusing is because of bundling. BOP or business owner’s policy is the perfect example of this. This policy is so confusing because it is actually a compilation. A compilation of general liability insurance and commercial property insurance. In order to completely understand the policy, you’ll need to know what both general liability insurance and commercial property insurance covers.

These policies will cover you in the event that someone is injured on your property. It’ll also cover you if a client’s damage is injured on your property. General liability will also protect you from libel, defamation, and copyright claims, while commercial property insurance will protect you against damaged business property. This policy is pertinent for anyone that’s going to have a physical brick and mortar store. If you have a physical brick and mortar store, you’ll likely have customers and servicemen or women in and out of the business.

Just imagine if you have a mailman that slips on ice and breaks his arm in front of your store. A lawsuit waiting to happen. Just imagine if a customer parks his or her car on your property and it ends up damaged. Another potential lawsuit just waiting to happen. Luckily, this is where the business owner’s policy comes in handy. It’ll protect you in these exact situations.

 

Workers’ Compensation Insurance

Going back to bringing on additional help, if this is something that you plan on doing,  you’ll need workers’ comp insurance. You’ll need to protect every employee with one of these policies. That being said, these policies protect you in the event that your employee is injured on the job. It’ll pay for the lost wages as well as the medical expenses that the customer experiences. There are some policies provided by companies like ProfessionalsCoverage that will even cover part or all of the settlement in the event that the employee wants to take the case to court.

You’d be surprised as to how many times they do, as workers’ comp can sometimes be murky. Sometimes these policies don’t offer the coverage that the employee thinks he or she is owed. Sometimes the policy doesn’t cover the employee for long enough. Whatever the situation, there are all instances that could potentially lead to lawsuits. Lawsuits that could cripple some of the smaller data analyst firms out there. All of this can be avoided with workers’ compensation insurance.

 

Why Disability Insurance

You biggest asset in life is your earning ability. If you are unable to work, you will need to rely on either your savings or borrow money to sustain your lifestyle. When these unfortunate circumstances occur, dependents and spouses are also impacted financially and emotionally.

Disability insurance coverage will provide you a monthly income benefit, usually totaling 70% to 80% of your income, when you are unable to work for a period of time due to injury or illness.

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