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Landscapers’, gardeners’ and lawn mowers’ insurance solutions

Get online insurance cover in minutes, purchase all three or any combination of public liability, personal accident/sickness or tools and equipment.

Cover for landscapers, gardeners and lawn mowers

Our landscapers’ insurance solution can cover landscapers and gardeners in three important ways – public liability, tools and equipment, and personal accident and illness. You can have all three insurance types (recommended if you’re self-employed) or any combination.

Get covered online in minutes for

  • Public liability

    Public liability insurance can provide cover for your business up to the liability limit you choose. You can apply online for cover up to $20 million.
  • Tools and equipment

    If your tools are damaged, lost or stolen it can be expensive to replace them. Tools and equipment cover can help pay for the replacement or repair of your essential equipment.
  • Personal accident and sickness

    Depending on the policy you choose personal accident and illness insurance can provide a weekly benefit, a capital lump sum, and business expenses coverage.

What’s covered online

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Public liability

Cover up to $20 million, for up to 10 employees, apply online.

  • Cover for damage or injury to third parties caused through your or your business’s error or negligence.

  • Certificate of currency emailed to you minutes after payment.

  • Cover for damage to underground services.

  • Cover for trimming trees up to 3m.

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Tools and equipment cover

Cover up to $25,000 online. Please contact us for higher limits.

  • Australia-wide accidental damage - full replacement cover for damaged or stolen gear including trimmers, shovels, leaf blowers and lawn mowers.

  • Can include theft in ‘open air’ of tools on an incomplete site.

  • Broad cover - not limited to defined events such as just fire, or just theft.

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Personal accident and sickness

Pays you a weekly benefit if you accidentally injure yourself or become unwell.

  • Capital lump sum or weekly benefits up to 104 weeks and up to 90% of income.

  • 24/7 protection. You’re covered at work (reduced by workers compensation) and outside of work.

  • Can include business expenses, such as the loan on your trailer.

What landscapers’ insurance does not cover

Specific exclusions for any landscapers’ insurance policy vary depending on your policy. However, there are some general things that many landscapers’ insurance policies typically do not cover. These can include:

  • Intentional damage
  • Wear and tear
  • Faulty workmanship
  • Illegal activities
  • Pre-existing conditions
  • Injuries sustained under the influence of alcohol or illegal substances
  • Self-inflicted, non-accidental injuries.

Cover for larger landscaping or gardening businesses

Marsh can help with your insurance needs whatever the size of your landscaping, gardening or lawn mowing business. So, if your business turns over more than $2M per annum, or you have more than 10 employees, or you have complex business requirements, our broker service team will be very happy to help.

Do landscapers, gardeners and lawn mowing businesses need insurance?

If something goes wrong as a result of your negligence and you damage property, or worse, injure a person, a claim against you can impact your livelihood. 

Say you’re landscaping a patio and someone trips on a paving stone that hasn’t been secured. It could lead to a claim and legal bills. Public liability insurance is designed to support you during this type of negligence claim.

What if a stone gets into your lawn mower blades and damages your mower? Tools and equipment cover can give you full replacement cover, Australia-wide. 

And if the worst happens and you’re injured and can’t work, how would you pay the bills? Personal accident and sickness insurance can provide a weekly benefit for up to 104 weeks designed around a limit that suits you.

Why Marsh?

Why choose Marsh for your landscaping, gardening or lawn mowing business insurance solution?

Claims advocacy

Handling an insurance claim can take precious time away from running your business, at a time when you may be scrambling to get things running smoothly again. We use our expertise to advocate on your behalf to the insurer when there is a dispute on coverage.

Australian expertise, global capabilities

Our Australia-wide network of brokers, backed by the international Marsh network, have been supporting business owners just like you since 1965.

Trusted by 130 associations

We are proud to be the endorsed insurance broker for more than 130 Australian industry groups and member associations, helping to meet the risk and insurance needs of businesses across a variety of industries.

Additional cover we can arrange

Products and services

Business vehicle insurance cover

No doubt you’ve got a vehicle to move around jobs and carry your gardening or landscaping equipment. Talk to us about your van, ute or other motor vehicle insurance. Cover for theft, damage, replacement and more.

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Business Pack

If you have a workshop or premises you work from, we can arrange insurance for that too. Talk to us about property insurance cover for your premises. Cover for storm, fire, or malicious damage.

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Business interruption cover

If your business is interrupted by storm, fire or flood, this cover is designed to help keep your business running.

Frequently asked questions

Absolutely. Whether you are a landscaper, gardener or lawn mower, you’re working with specialised landscaping equipment every day. If you cause property damage or hurt someone while you’re building a rock garden, mowing a verge, or doing some maintenance work on a client’s sprinkler system, it could mean legal action and crippling costs.

Or you could injure yourself - it can happen with just a momentary loss of concentration. Landscaping, gardening and lawn mowing are all energetic professions, and you need to be fit to get the job done. If you can’t work, how will you earn an income and pay the bills?

Public liability insures you against damage to other people or property, including customers, passers-by, or other people on site. This is very important.

Tools and equipment insurance covers you against having your equipment or tools stolen from either your worksite, or out of your van or ute, or if they get damaged. The tools and equipment insurance solution can cover you in situations where other insurers sometimes won’t.

Personal accident and sickness insurance means that if you injure yourself, either while you’re working or enjoying the weekend, or if you’re disabled and can’t work, you can have an income for a significant period and be able to pay your bills.

The public liability insurance solution can cover you for damage to underground services. So, if you’re digging holes for fence posts, trenching for a retaining wall, or excavating for any reason and accidentally damage a water pipe or underground cable, you can be covered. 

For tools and equipment, some insurers will offer you only ‘defined events’ cover, which covers you for only those things you must specify, such as fire or collision damage. There’s often also an exclusion if your tools are stolen from a working site, unless they are locked away on that site.

Our insurance solutions can offer you full damage, full replacement Australia-wide cover, including water damage and theft in open air. So, if you leave your mower, edge or hedge trimmer, or mulcher on a working site and they are stolen, you can be covered.

If you provide advice or design services to your clients, we strongly recommend you consider professional indemnity insurance.

Professional indemnity insurance can cover your business for allegations of negligence involving a breach of professional duty, typically excluded under public liability insurance.

The cost of your cover depends on a variety of factors: the amount and type of cover you need, the size of your business and type of work you do. The fastest way to find out how much it might cost is to get an online quote.

Yes you should have your own cover. While there are a few exceptions, the main contractor’s public liability insurance will generally not cover a subcontractor in the event of a claim, and you don’t want to be facing large bills.

If you are subcontracting your gardening services to a company and they advise you will be covered under their insurance, it’s best to get written confirmation.

LCPA 25/072