You HAVE TO buy the following insurance:
- Public Liability insurance (公眾責任), This is to cover any of your customers entering the shop.
- Staff insurance (僱員賠償), to cover your staff's while they are at work
You have lots of other insurance to buy including Property insuranc (財物) or operational insurance (運作). There are too many to name. To decide what sort of insurance you should buy, I think you can make a few phone calls to the biggest insurers in HK and ask for two quotations:
(1) Quotation for the minimun insurance cover.
(2) Quotation for a package that includes a few more insurance riders on top of the minimun. All the insurance do packages e.g. for HSBC, they have 零售萬全保
You can then compare the cost and benefit of all the companies and decide which one you want to buy. The biggest General Insurance companies in HK are included below:
HSBC:
http://www.commercial.hsbc.com.hk/1/2/commercial_zh/insurance/business/retailersurance
ING:
http://www.ing.com.hk/gi/tc/index.asp
AXA:
http://www.axa-insurance.com.hk/cindex.asp?pageid=products&prodid=business
Zurich:
http://www.zurich.com.hk/chi/is_companyinsurance_retailmultirisk.htm
Decide whether you just want to buy the minimum or whether you want to buy more than the minimum. If you want to buy the minimun required insurance, I suggest you just buy the cheapest quote you manage to get from the above insurance companies. However, if you want to buy more than the minimun, you shuould carefully compared what is covered by the policies. It's a very complicated process and you often cannot compare policies directly because they vary so much between companies.