Incorporating Business Insurance in Risk Management ? Even for Small Business

simply have not engaged in proper risk management — no matter how small your business is.

Assessing your risk is the first step

When any business engages in risk management, assessment is the first step. You need to know what kinds of risks your business faces in order to take that next step in determining how to in fact deal with those risks.

Transferring your risk is where insurance comes in

Where business insurance comes in is determining just how much of that risk you’re going to in fact transfer to someone else — an insurance company — and how much they’re willing to assume that risk for you. Transferring that risk is obviously one of the more desirable remedies in dealing with risk of any kind. If you can get someone else to essentially assume it for you, without making an unnecessary investment in dollars yourself, then not only are you engaging in smart risk management, you’re engaging in smart business — period.

Insurance companies are like risk management outsourcing firms

In fact, the entire insurance industry exists on this basic premise, doesn’t it? Insurance companies provide insurance so that all businesses can transfer a basic component of their risk assessment to someone else. Insurance companies make money by assuming that risk for you. You make money in properly transferring some of the risk involved in running your business. It’s capitalism