Painting business coverage guide
General liability for painters
Updated 2026-06-11 · by Brokly
If your overspray drifts onto a customer's car or landscaping mid-job — or your finished work causes harm after the crew has left.
Coverage
What it covers for painting contractors
Protects the business against claims of bodily injury, property damage, and personal injury. For a painting contractor the live-job exposure is property damage during operations — overspray and spills reaching cars, roofs, and landscaping beside the surface being painted — and its products/completed-operations section pays for bodily injury and property damage that occurs away from your premises and is caused by your completed work. Painters apply coatings on and around other people's property all day — a drifting overspray plume or a tipped bucket can damage far more than the wall being painted.
Sources: Texas Department of Insurance — Commercial general liability insurance (retrieved 2026-06-11)
By state
General liability by state
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