Civil Liability
Increasing client expectations are leading to more third party claims.
Damage caused to a third party within the scope of your company’s work can have serious financial consequences and affect your brand-image.
The aim of company civil liability insurance is to repair bodily injury and tangible or intangible damage caused to third parties or clients during the completion of tasks related to their activities.
What is a company’s civil liability?
Civil liability is the obligation to compensate for bodily injury or tangible or intangible damage that may be caused to a third party by the company’s belongings or staff, over the course of work completed.
There are a number of situations in which the company’s liability may be invoked.
Civil liability laws dictate all rules that define the conditions under which victims of an accident can obtain compensation from the responsible party.
It implies that:
- Damage has been caused,
- Something caused this damage,
- There is a causal link between the two.
The party claiming compensation must always prove each of the three conditions.
Liability is divided into two sections: contract liability and tort/quasi-tort liability.
- Contract liability is when failure to fulfill a contract causes damage.
Thus, contract liability is when there is a breach of contract (failure to fulfill contract or failure to fulfill contract to standard), that causes damage and a causal link is established between the two. - Tort/quasi-tort liability is when professional negligence causes damage to a third party who is not under contract.
- Contract liability is when failure to fulfill a contract causes damage.
The result can be civil liability:
- On the grounds of having personally caused the damage (articles 1382 and 1383 of the Civil Code),
- On the grounds of events (article1384 clause 1 of the Civil Code),
- On the grounds of other people (article 1384 and following of the Civil Code),
- On the grounds of failure to fulfill a contractual obligation, whether the work is not completed to standard or not (articles 1147 and 1137 of the Civil Code).
Civil liability: steps to follow
Our BTPlus contracts provide a complete range of coverage that can be combined with Decennial or Civil Liability.
Thus your needs are studied in combination with those included under decennial liability.
The combination of proposed coverage will adapt to your company’s evolution as you work. décennale.
