Excellent business insurance resources

Insurance books, videos, websites and companies

There is a vast quantity of business insurance resources available to those looking to buy business insurance. While the most common way to find information on nearly anything is the internet, there are also books and videos that provide a great deal of information on the subject.

Here is a list of some of the best business insurance resources currently available.

BOOKS

The Business Guide To Insurance – by Norman Lawrence
Dictionary of Insurance terms – By Harvey W. Rubin
Hide! Here Comes The Insurance Guy: Understanding Business Insurance And Risk Management – by Rick Vassar
Riley On Business Interruption Insurance – by David Cloughton
Insurance For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance) – by Jack Hungelmann
How Insurance Works – An introduction To Property And Liability Insurance – by Barry D. Smith (Insurance Institute of America)
The Savvy Businessperson’s Guide To Property & Casualty Insurance – by Karin Fleischhaker
The Buyer’s Guide To Business Insurance – by Don Bury

VIDEOS

Fox Business also has a large number of videos on various management and economic issues - You will find some interesting ones on business insurance here.

ONLINE RESOURCES

Obviously, the largest number of business insurance resources is available on the internet. When searching for information, try and refine your search parameters as much as possible.

A Google search for “Business Insurance” will produce 124,000,000 results, for instance. Refining your search with specific conditions will drastically reduce the number of results and make finding what you are looking for more manageable.

Here are a few web sites you could look at to give you some general information on business insurance:

Business Insurance - This is a web site for the insurance industry, but glancing through it once in a while will give the layman an overall feel of what is happening in the industry and the current trends. This will definitely be of help when making business insurance decisions.
EconomyWatch has a page devoted to business insurance - You will be able to pick up a lot of practical input and tips from here.
About.com’s Business Insurance site has a lot of practical articles on the subject of business insurance. You will find articles like “What Types of Business Insurance Can You Buy?” here.
Ebookee offers a free subscription to an Ezine on business insurance. This will give you convenient updates on what is happening in the business insurance industry, which will help you in making your insurance purchase decisions and provide you with a large amount of input into the various business insurance options available. There is also an ebook on business insurance available for free download.

Besides the various sources of information available on the internet, it is also possible to get business insurance quotes online. In addition, contacting and meeting with insurance companies, brokers and agents, getting a few online quotes can give you a good idea of where you stand.

Use this information when you are talking to the agents and brokers to help you negotiate the best business insurance deal possible. Two useful websites that will be able to provide you with online quotations are: