Product liability insurance protects you and your business against claims brought by customers or other third parties in the event that the products you make or supply prove to be defective and cause injury or damage.

For example, you make an electrical component that overheats causing a house fire. The policy would protect you if you were found to be negligent in the manufacture of the part and that it was found to be the cause of the fire. Sitting alongside product liability insurance is product recall insurance. This will pay for the costs incurred by you to recall your products in the event they are found to be defective or deficient in some way.