What are the benefits of DAS business legal expenses insurance?

Cover for legal costs
  • Typically between £100,000 to £250,000 limit of indemnity dependent on the policy.
  • Pays the costs of representation should you experience a legal problem covered by the policy. Refer to your documentation for any specific limitation on cover or exclusions.
Telephone legal support
  • Access to telephone legal advice to help you understand your rights and options on any personal legal matter.
  • Available 24 hours a day for enquiries about the law in the England and Wales jurisdiction; advice about the law in other covered countries is available 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday, excluding public and bank holidays.
  • Counselling, Tax, ID Theft, and Health & Medical support.
Legal document drafting

  • DAS Businesslaw contains a range of regularly updated business and legal guides, document builders, interactive checklists and videos that can help you with the day-to-day running of your business, as well as helping you to manage its exposure to legal risk.
  • The service also provides useful tools, articles and information on matters such as new legislation, employment issues, property law and taxation, all regularly updated by legal experts to help you keep your business one step ahead.
  • In addition, DAS Businesslaw contains hundreds of regularly updated expert guides and videos on topics such as branding, crowdfunding, financial and tax planning, and marketing strategy to help build and grow your business.

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Employment manual

The DAS Employment Manual offers comprehensive, up-to-date guidance on rapidly changing employment law.

What does business legal expenses insurance typically cover?

It could provide cover for legal representation or unforeseen legal costs relating to your property, employment, or contract disputes.

Policy cover, exclusions and limitations vary between different legal insurance products. For more detailed information, visit our product pages.

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Where can you buy it?

Most policies are available as an additional product when you buy a business insurance policy through an insurance provider.

It is also important to check what cover you have in place before purchasing legal expenses insurance, as you may already have the benefit of this through another insurance policy.

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