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Civil liability insurance

If your business harms someone’s health or property, we pay the claim and the legal costs. The compulsory insurance the law requires of operators of shopping centres, hotels, business centres and similar buildings is here too.

The glass roof and escalators of a shopping centre

Main terms

Compulsory part
Law on Compulsory Insurance: building operators’ civil liability
Limit
Voluntary part from ₼50,000 to ₼2,000,000
Price
After a risk survey, usually 0.2–0.8% of the limit
Term
1 year

Who it is for

Building operators, shops, restaurants, manufacturers, doctors, engineers, notaries.

Legal basis

Basis of the compulsory part: the Law on Compulsory Insurance (24 June 2011, No. 165-⁠IVQ), the chapter on civil liability for operating real estate. The certificate’s form: Central Bank decision No. 18/4 of 12 April 2023.

What is paid

  • Compulsory insurance for operating a building (by law)
  • A visitor who slips and gets hurt
  • Water or fire spreading to a neighbouring office or shop
  • Harm caused by a product you sold
  • Professional mistakes: doctors, engineers, accountants
  • Legal defence and court costs

What is not paid

  • Deliberate harm
  • Contractual penalties
  • Injuries to your own staff (separate compulsory insurance)

When it happens

  1. Help the injured person, write down what happened, take witnesses’ contacts.
  2. Do not accept the claim without agreeing it with us.
  3. Tell us within 3 working days and send us the claim letter.
Report a claim

Documents you need

  • Policy
  • Incident report, witness statements
  • The claim letter or court papers

Questions

Does our building need the compulsory insurance?

The law applies it to operators of certain buildings. Send us the building’s use and floor area and we answer within 1 working day.

Request an offer

Fill in the form: an underwriter calls you within an hour during working hours.

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