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Landscaping Contractors Insurance

From mowing crews to hardscape installs, your equipment is half your business. Insure it like it.

Typical Class Codes:0042 — Landscape Gardening97047 — Landscaping/Snow Removal

Landscaping insurance spans a wide range of risk depending on your services: routine mowing and maintenance crews have a fairly light liability profile, while hardscape installation, retaining wall construction, and heavy equipment operation (skid steers, excavators) carry meaningfully more exposure — both for liability claims and for equipment theft and damage. Seasonal businesses that add snow removal in winter also take on slip-and-fall liability that a pure summer landscaping operation doesn't have.

We build landscaping programs around your actual service mix — mowing/maintenance, hardscape/install, and snow removal are effectively three different risk categories under one umbrella, and your policy should price and cover them accordingly.

Risk Exposures

What Insurers Look At for Landscaping Contractors

Equipment Theft

Mowers, skid steers, and trailers are frequent theft targets — often left on job sites or in unlocked trailers overnight.

Property Damage

Irrigation lines, underground utilities, and hardscape work create damage exposure to client and third-party property.

Heavy Equipment Operation

Skid steers and excavators used in hardscape and grading work carry higher liability and injury risk than hand tools.

Snow Removal Slip-and-Fall

Adding winter snow/ice removal services introduces a materially different liability exposure than summer landscaping.

Recommended Coverage

Coverage Built for Landscaping Contractors

General Liability

Covers property damage (including underground utility strikes) and bodily injury/slip-and-fall claims.

Workers Compensation

Covers crew injuries — common in a physically demanding, equipment-heavy trade.

Tools & Equipment

Covers mowers, trailers, skid steers, and hand tools — landscaping has one of the highest equipment-theft exposures of any trade.

Contractor Bonds

Some municipalities require bonds for landscape construction and hardscape permit work.

Cost Factors

What Affects Your Landscaping Contractors Premium

Service mix: maintenance vs. hardscape vs. snow removal
Heavy equipment ownership and use
Revenue, crew size, and payroll
Equipment theft/claims history
Geographic snow removal exposure

Typical Range

$700–$2,800/yr for GL depending on service mix and equipment value insured.

Every business is different — the only way to get an accurate number is a real quote based on your revenue, payroll, and claims history.

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FAQ

Landscaping Contractors Insurance Questions

Tools and equipment (inland marine) coverage can respond to theft of mowers, trailers, and equipment left on-site or in a trailer, subject to the policy's specific terms — this is one of the most common claims in the landscaping trade.

Yes. Snow and ice removal introduces slip-and-fall liability that's materially different from summer landscaping, and not disclosing it can jeopardize coverage on a claim. We build seasonal service changes into your policy from the start.

Underground utility strikes are a common landscaping liability claim and are generally covered under general liability, though carriers may ask about your call-before-you-dig practices during underwriting.

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