Professional Liability (Installation E&O)
Professional liability (errors & omissions) covers claims that your installation work was defective — a wrap that bubbles, lifts, or peels and must be redone. Standard GL excludes 'your work,' so E&O is what protects you when the workmanship itself is the claim.
Professional Liability for Wrap & Graphics Installers
A wrap is a craft, and even skilled installers get callbacks: a wrap that bubbles, lifts at the edges, peels, or fails prematurely, color that doesn't match across panels, or graphics applied to the wrong spec. When the customer demands you redo the work — or sues over a botched fleet job — the cost of correcting the workmanship is the claim. Professional liability (installation errors & omissions) is the coverage for that exposure.
This matters because general liability excludes 'your work' and 'your product.' GL pays if your work injures someone or damages other property; it does not pay to fix or redo the defective wrap itself. That's a coverage gap many installers don't discover until a fleet client rejects a whole batch of vehicles and demands a redo at the installer's expense.
Why Fleet and Commercial Work Raises the Stakes
A single-vehicle redo is a bad day. A fleet contract gone wrong — twenty vehicles wrapped with a defect, or a missed deadline that costs the client revenue — can be a business-ending claim. Professional liability responds to allegations of negligent or faulty installation, funds your legal defense, and covers covered damages, including economic-loss claims that GL won't touch. For shops chasing commercial and fleet accounts, E&O is increasingly a requirement, not an option.
What's Covered
Frequently Asked Questions
No. GL excludes damage to 'your work' and 'your product.' If a wrap you installed bubbles or peels and must be redone, GL won't pay for that correction — professional liability (installation E&O) is the coverage built for faulty-workmanship claims.
Strongly recommended. Fleet and commercial clients often require it, and a defect across a fleet job can generate a large redo-and-downtime claim. E&O defends and pays those professional-error claims that general liability specifically excludes.