Why Essex County businesses need manufacturing insurance
Essex County's diverse manufacturers, from food to industrial products, need coverage that protects both the plant and the products it ships. 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 Essex 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 Essex 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 Essex County agent
As an independent agency, Kevin Brown Insurance Agency compares multiple highly-rated carriers rather than pushing one company's products. Serving Newark, Montclair, and West Orange and all of Essex County, we explain the coverage in plain language and place it correctly the first time.