Cake Decorating Liability Insurance

Red Star Insurance Brokers is pleased to partner with the Australian Cake Decorating Network to provide discounted Public & Products Liability insurance to it’s members.

Become an ACDN member BEFORE YOU TAKE OUT THE INSURANCE POLICY and save $100, which is more than the ACDN membership fee!

Not only will you get cheaper insurance, you can also take advantage of the other discounts and benefits on offer to ACDN members. Click HERE to see the full list of ACDN member benefits!

WHAT AM I COVERED FOR?

This policy provides Public & Products Liability cover. Public & Product Liability Insurance covers you for essentially two things that may arise from running your business:

1. Personal Injury to third parties (e.g. someone gets food poisoning from your cake)
2. Property Damage to third party owned goods

There is one Master Policy and all clients are covered under and share in the one limit of $20,000,000. This Master Policy has a common expiry date of 31 August every year. See below for further details on what a Master Policy is.

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?

*Subject to acceptance criteria.

TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS MASTER POLICY:

1. Your business activities must fall within those listed above under the heading: What is automatically covered?

2. You must be a sole operator with no employees. (If you are in a partnership or employ staff please advise when applying and we can discuss alternate cover).

3. You must also hold a FOOD HANDLING/FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATE – Please click on the link below to complete your Food Handling Course ($16). Please note if your local council requires an accredited course you will need to source an accredited course provider.
 http://cleartowork.com.au/food-handling-non-accredited/

Note: The Master Policy has an expiry date of the 31st of August every year. When you take out a policy, you will pay a pro-rata premium from the date you start cover until 31/08 .

Premiums are NON-REFUNDABLE. ie If you cancel your policy there is no refund payable.

INSURANCE INFO

Claim Scenario 1

You bake a wedding cake for Bridezilla and inadvertently use an ingredient that is past it’s use by date. A number of guests at the wedding including the bride fall sick and are taken to hospital suffering food poisoning. You are sued for pain and suffering and are also hit with a massive legal bill to defend each claim. All up you owe $230,000. Thankfully you took out a Public & Products Liability policy which covers such claims.

Claim Scenario 2

Young Johnny’s birthday is coming up and Johnny gets what Johnny wants – an extravagant dinosaur cake with smoking nostrils. All is going well until Johnny suffers an allergic reaction and ends up in hospital. Turns out you accidentally contaminated the cake with traces of nuts from the job before. The judge awards against you and you not only have to cover your legal costs but Johnny’s parents legal costs as well. Thank goodness you took out a legal liability policy through Red Star Insurance Brokers which covers both the award and the legal costs.

View The Policy Wording

What Is A Master Policy?

A Master Policy is a single policy that is set up to cover a group of people that are typically members of a group (eg ACDN). Each individual is covered in the same way that they would be if they had taken out an individual policy, except for the fact that the Limit of Liability ($20m) is shared between all members. This means that the total amount of claims that can be paid by the policy is $20m across all members. If one member made a claim for $20m, the policy would be exhausted and no further claims could be made. Considering the limited number of claims lodged we consider it highly unlikely that the limit will be breached, and as such we consider that this policy is appropriate for our clients, particularly given the premium savings available. In the very unlikely event that the limit is reached, all clients will be contacted and a new policy cover arranged. If you would prefer to have your own individual policy, please let us know and we can change this back to what you had previously (additional costs apply).