Wednesday, 18 June 2014

INSURANCE FOR FITNESS INSTRUCTORS




Insurance for fitness instructors has become very essential now-a-days. Especially for those who are newish to this career. You have worked hard to be a professional fitness trainer but it takes only one incident to ruin your career. One single incident can put all of your hard work in jeopardy. To protect your business and more importantly yourself, you should consider getting insurance for fitness trainers. Because this insurance will help u when u r injured or even sued for injury or damages.
IMPORTANCE OF FITNESS TRAINER INSURANCE
Before start working with a client, one should have insurance. Because you need to be covered in case of any accidents such as falls, slips, other kinds of possible injuries while working with the client in your gym, client’s hose or office. Besides in fitness training different kinds of instruments are used. So accidents can happen. If you are a new fitness trainer then it is very natural that you might face injuries to yourself, to your client’s. So if you do not want to end up with law suit on your ass where you are sued for thousands of dollars.
LIABILITY INSURANCE
In fitness industry liability insurance is designed for
1.       Personal trainers
2.        Sport related coaches
3.       Sports professionals
4.       Athletic trainers
5.       Gym instructors, etc.
COVERAGE OF LIABILITY INSURANCE
Liability insurance normally covers any kind of body injuries to yourself and to your clients, property damages caused by your fitness instruction activities. Normally, such policies also pay for any wrongful acts such as molestation, sexual harassments, negligence, error, omission, and misleading statement for discharging any client.
Many insurance policies will not pay any compensation, if accidents occur in premises which means in private places of your clients. Policies even do not consider injuries where you are not defined as fitness instructor or you are not in any kind of contract with your clients.
So you must be careful choosing liability insurance with insurance company.   
ELIGIBILITY TO LIABILITY INSURANCE
For liability insurance you must be 18 years of old. Otherwise, no insurance company will make any deal with you. Instructor’s employment as an exempt will not be count for this insurance. If you are an employee of school, college or university then you will not be eligible for liability insurance.
PROFESSIONALISM
To get a suitable job in any respectable club, gym you must have liability insurance. Otherwise, they will not even count you and you will miss your chance in the very first. Liability insurance is must for a professional fitness instructor.
Companies do provide one month of free liability insurance primarily to inspire trainers. There is eventually one year and two year liability policy mainly for fitness trainers.