Professional Indemnity Insurance should accurately describe the surveying services performed by the business.

Depending on the practice, services can include:

• Boundary surveys.
• Cadastral surveys.
• Construction set-out.
• Feature and level surveys.
• Topographic surveys.
• Subdivision surveys.
• Identification surveys.
• Easement surveys.
• Engineering surveys.
• As-constructed surveys.
• Monitoring surveys.
• Survey plans and documentation.

Specialist activities may also be insurable, subject to underwriting.

Why do insurers need to know the services provided? #

Different surveying activities can create different professional exposures.

For example, the risk associated with a basic feature survey may differ from:

• Establishing legal property boundaries.
• Setting out structural works.
• Surveying major infrastructure.
• Certifying measurements.
• Providing specialist advice.

Insurers therefore need an accurate description of the business activities.

What if the business starts providing a new service? #

Tell Webber Insurance if the practice begins undertaking materially different activities.

The insurer may need to confirm that the new work falls within the insured professional services.

This is particularly important where the business expands into higher-risk, specialist or multidisciplinary work.