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You built the business.
Let's make sure
one bad day doesn't take it apart.

Personal insurance protects your family. Commercial insurance protects everything you've built on top of that — the trucks, the crew, the lease, the LLC, your name on the side of the trailer. We work with sole proprietors, small contractors, professional services, and brick-and-mortar shops. This page is for you.

75%
of small businesses are underinsured for at least one major exposure
$50K+
average cost of a single small-business liability claim
1 in 3
small businesses will face a property or liability claim in the next 5 years

Five gaps. One conversation per gap.

Most small business policies are sold in pieces — auto here, liability there, workers' comp because the contract required it. Nobody steps back and looks at the whole picture. Here's the picture.

01

Commercial Auto

If the truck is registered to the business, your personal policy probably won't cover it.

Personal auto policies have business-use exclusions that quietly bite when a vehicle is titled to an LLC, used to haul tools, or driven primarily for work. Commercial auto is built for that — higher liability limits, coverage for hired and non-owned vehicles (employees driving their own cars on company errands), and tools/equipment endorsements.

Most-missed: Hired & non-owned auto (HNOA). Your employee runs to Home Depot in their own car for the job — and rear-ends someone. Without HNOA, the business has no coverage and the personal auto policy may deny because they were on the clock.

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02

General Liability

The "slip-and-fall, spilled-coffee, hit-the-wrong-pipe" coverage.

General Liability (GL) covers the things that happen on the job or at your location that aren't auto and aren't employee-related. Customer slips on your floor. Subcontractor cuts a buried line. Your work damages a client's property. Without GL, those become personal lawsuits against the business owner — and depending on how the LLC is structured, against you personally.

Most-missed: Coverage for completed operations. The deck you built last year collapses. The wiring you ran six months ago starts a fire. GL has a "products and completed operations" component — make sure yours is adequate, not minimum.

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03

Workers' Compensation

If you have employees, this isn't optional. If you have contractors, it's complicated.

Workers' comp pays for medical bills and lost wages when an employee is hurt on the job — and in exchange, generally protects the business from being sued by that employee. Texas is unusual: it's the only state where workers' comp is technically optional. But going without it ("non-subscriber") exposes you to direct lawsuits with no liability cap. Most carriers won't insure you on the GL or commercial auto side without workers' comp in place.

Most-missed: Properly classifying contractors vs. employees. The IRS, the workers' comp carrier, and the courts all have different definitions. Misclassify someone and the audit-time premium correction can be brutal.

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04

Business Owner's Umbrella

When the underlying limits aren't enough — and they often aren't.

A commercial umbrella sits on top of your GL, commercial auto, and (usually) employer's liability. When a claim blows past the underlying limits, the umbrella picks up. For most small businesses with even a modest crew or vehicle fleet, $1M of underlying GL is no longer enough — a single serious accident at a job site can hit $1.5M before the dust settles. Umbrella is how you bridge that.

Most-missed: Personal exposure from the business. If you're a sole proprietor or single-member LLC, a business judgment can come after personal assets that aren't legally separated. A business umbrella plus a personal umbrella is the belt-and-suspenders setup most agents won't bring up.

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05

BOP / Commercial Property

The building, the inventory, the tools, the laptop, the rented space.

A Business Owner's Policy (BOP) bundles commercial property and general liability into one policy — usually at a meaningful discount versus buying them separately. It's the right product for retail, office, and most service businesses operating out of a fixed location. For trades and contractors, you may need a separate inland marine policy to cover tools and equipment that travel between job sites.

Most-missed: Business interruption coverage. If a fire shuts your shop for three months, who covers payroll and rent in the meantime? Business interruption is part of a properly-built BOP — but it's frequently sold at the minimum, which evaporates fast.

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Five conversations from this month alone.

If any of these sounds like your situation, we should talk. The fix is usually smaller than the exposure.

"I've got a work truck registered to my LLC, but I'm still on a personal auto policy."
The fix: Move it to commercial auto before the next claim. Most personal carriers exclude vehicles titled to a business — meaning a denial at the worst possible moment.
"My employees drive their own cars to job sites all day. I'm covered, right?"
The fix: Hired and non-owned auto (HNOA) coverage. Without it, your business has no coverage when an employee is on the clock in their own vehicle. Their personal policy might deny, too.
"I run my business out of my house. The homeowners policy covers it, doesn't it?"
The fix: Probably not. Standard homeowners policies cap business property at $2,500 and exclude business liability entirely. A home-based business endorsement or a small BOP closes the gap for under $50/month most of the time.
"My contractor friend got sued personally after a client tripped on a job site. He had insurance — they still came after his house."
The fix: Adequate GL limits plus a commercial umbrella. The most common gap is GL written at $1M aggregate when the actual exposure is multi-million dollar. The umbrella is the catch-all — and it's far cheaper than people expect.
"I've got a crew of three. Workers' comp seems expensive — can I just have them sign a waiver?"
The fix: No. Texas allows you to be a non-subscriber, but a waiver doesn't shield you from a lawsuit — it just means the employee can sue without the workers' comp framework, which is usually worse for you. Workers' comp is almost always cheaper than the alternative.

Commercial done right.

We're an independent agency, which means when we quote your business, we're shopping multiple carriers — not selling whatever one company gave us. We read your existing certificates of insurance for free. We answer questions over email without making you book a "consultation."

Most importantly: we'll tell you when your current setup is fine. Not every small business needs every product on this page. The job is figuring out what you actually need, what you can defer, and what's quietly a problem.

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Plain-English explanations. No jargon, no upsell language, no follow-up phone tree.
Texas-licensed. We know the local rules — including the workers' comp non-subscriber landscape.
One agent, one relationship. You won't get bounced between departments. The person who quotes you handles your renewals.

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One fewer thing to worry about tomorrow.

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