Why Bergen County businesses need manufacturing insurance
Bergen County's light manufacturers and specialty producers carry product-liability and equipment exposures that a standard business policy won't fully cover. Manufacturing insurance is a package built for businesses that make products. It combines property coverage for the plant and inventory, general liability, and, most importantly, product liability, which protects you if a product you made causes injury or damage. It typically adds equipment-breakdown coverage, since a failed machine can halt production and revenue.
What manufacturing insurance covers in Bergen County
A manufacturing package generally bundles commercial property (building, equipment, raw materials, and finished inventory), general liability, product liability (claims arising from the goods you produce), and equipment breakdown (mechanical or electrical failure of production machinery). Manufacturers shipping nationally often add broader product-liability limits and business-interruption coverage.
Sizing the right coverage for your Bergen County business
Coverage is sized to your property and equipment values, annual revenue, what you produce, and where your products end up. A producer making components that go into others' products carries different product-liability exposure than one selling directly to consumers. We help right-size the product-liability limit, which is the coverage manufacturers most often underestimate.
Working with a local Bergen County agent
As an independent agency, Kevin Brown Insurance Agency compares multiple highly-rated carriers rather than pushing one company's products. Serving Paramus, Fort Lee, and Ridgewood and all of Bergen County, we explain the coverage in plain language and place it correctly the first time.