Professional Indemnity Insurance

Professional Indemnity Insurance

You must ensure your company holds appropriate Professional Indemnity Insurance.  This can be arranged through any insurance broker. Agent Assure are the brokers for the NFOPP and they can be contacted on:

Tel: 0207 337 7551; Fax: 0870 191 6758; Email: info@agentassure.co.uk; Web: www.agentassure.co.uk.

Minimum Limits of Indemnity 

Your company will need one of three levels of cover depending upon your business activities and fee income. Please ensure your cover meets the appropriate level.

  • The minimum limit of indemnity is £100,000.
  • However, if a company operates as an agency in residential lettings, and the total fee income for the company from all sources is £150,000 or less, then the limit of indemnity must be a minimum of £150,000.
  • If a company operates as an agency in residential lettings, and the total fee income for the company from all sources is over £150,000, then the minimum limit of indemnity must be £500,000.

You will be required to make a declaration about your company's last year's fee income so that we can ensure you have the correct level of cover.

Evidence of Insurance Cover

You must provide us with evidence of your professional indemnity insurance cover annually as a condition of continued membership of the Association. We would therefore ask that you forward to us evidence of renewal of your PI policy within 10 working days of your annual renewal date. Evidence should show the insured, the level of cover, duration of policy and insurer. Typically, this would be a copy of the front cover of your PI renewal schedule.

Continuous Policies

If you have a continuous policy, we appreciate that insurers do not always automatically provide a yearly schedule. We still require evidence that the policy is currently on cover. Insurers will normally provide a current schedule on request. Alternatively, a letter or email from either your broker or insurers would be sufficient. An invitation to renew or invoice is unfortunately not sufficient.

Further Information

For further information on the Professional Indemnity Insurance requirements please call 0845 250 6011 or email piinsurance@nfopp.co.uk