In addition to purchasing insurance, another way to insure yourself against liability is to build protection into your contracts.

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The oil price has crept up in recent weeks, but if you want to insure yourself against a major price spike later in 2012, you can do it very cheaply.

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Insure yourself against identity theft.

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