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The Importance of Director Insurance

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By vikram kumar

  If you only own part of your business, the chances are that you, along with the other owners, are part of a board of directors. In many instances the individual directors may not be involved in daily operations. Directors may vote on business matters, but they are not directly responsible for daily business operations. So why do you need director insurance?


What if one of your directors died? Do you know what would happen to his assets? Would you and the other owners be in a position to by his shares or ownership interests? This is where director insurance is important. It is similar to life insurance in that it would pay to retain the company assets among the surviving owners or stockholders. Generally the amount of the director insurance policy would be equal in value to the amount of his shares.

Director insurance is similar to key man protection. It protects your business from suffering a loss in the event that your directors stocks become part of his estate. The stocks cannot

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