Professional Indemnity Insurance for Cartographers
A Cartographer creates charts and maps by combining science, aesthetics and techniques to build maps.
Public Liability Insurance for Cartographers
If you or any of your employees visit a customers premises your actions could cause an injury to another person. Similarly, if an accident happens whilst a member of the public comes to your place of business and they are injured you could be held liable. Public Liability Insurance protects you in the event that such accidents occur and a claim is subsequently made against you.
Public liability insurance also covers you if damage is caused to third party property while at the customers business. An example would be if an employee broke a valuable item while making a delivery at a customer's home. The claim to replace the item would be covered by public liability insurance.
Why do Cartographers require professional indemnity insurance?
The job of a Cartographer is quite complex. They need to be efficient and careful while performing their duties which could include:
- Developing and designing maps
- Defining production specifications, such as projection, scale, size, and colors of new or revised map products
- Revising existing maps and charts and correcting maps in various stages of completion
- Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting geographic information provided by geodetic surveys, aerial photographs, and satellite data
- Conducting research in mapping techniques and procedures
- Analyzing surveying data, source maps, photographs, satellite data, and other records to determine location and names of features
- Drawing maps of geographical areas to show natural and constructed features and political boundaries
The Cartographer needs to perform all the above mentioned tasks efficiently and effectively. Any sort of error may result in a claim or a law suit against them by their client. Professional indemnity Insurance will provide a Cartographer with financial assistance against all such claims in respect of both defence costs and damages.
Key exposures for Cartographers:
- Errors in collecting, analyzing and interpreting the geographical information.
- Use of inappropriate scale and size for map making.
- Faulty design concept of map products.
- Wrongly map something.
Why purchase your Professional Indemnity Insurance through Express Insurance?
With Express Insurance, you can source a PI quote in seconds, and have the option of adding Public Liability Insurance. You can then proceed to buy the insurance and produce your Certificate of Insurance in minutes, or alternatively save the quote back to your email account for buying later.
And we save your details on Renewal of your insurance, making the process of renewing your PI Insurance even easier and quicker.
Throughout your experience with us our team of highly experienced PI specialists are a phone call away !
Please Note: Coverage under the policy will be subject to the particular circumstances relating to a claim and the full terms and conditions of the policy.