Phone use and business insurance
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 1:37 pm
Just had a new policy and interested to see that SDP+Commuting has a specific exclusion "Use for Social, domestic and pleasure purposes and use only by the Insured for journeys between home and a permanent place of business and vice versa, provided that business calls are not made on the journey"
Now it doesn't bother me in the slightest since I won't use a phone while driving, but I know a lot of my colleagues unfortunately do take calls in the car while commuting. I wonder how many are therefore uninsured because they don't have business insurance?
It also raises an interesting point, because HMRC definitely don't allow commuting costs to be claimed as business mileage. Technically I guess there's no explicit contradiction, but it seems to me that if I can't claim for it as business mileage, it shouldn't be classed as business use and exempted from commuting cover.
Now it doesn't bother me in the slightest since I won't use a phone while driving, but I know a lot of my colleagues unfortunately do take calls in the car while commuting. I wonder how many are therefore uninsured because they don't have business insurance?
It also raises an interesting point, because HMRC definitely don't allow commuting costs to be claimed as business mileage. Technically I guess there's no explicit contradiction, but it seems to me that if I can't claim for it as business mileage, it shouldn't be classed as business use and exempted from commuting cover.