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Auto
In the Commercial General Liability coverage part, an auto includes
motorized vehicles meant to be used on public roads, but not certain
specifically defined mobile equipment.
Avoidable Consequences
Consequences that are caused by lack of care on the part of an
individual, and that could have been avoided had the individual
exercised proper care. Generally refers to events that occur following a
loss as the result of a person’s failure to take steps to prevent the
consequences.
Accident
An unforeseen, unintended and expected event.
Accounts receivable insurance
Insurance against loss of revenue that cannot be collected because
accounts receivable records are destroyed by an insured peril. Coverage
commonly includes any extra expense to recapture records and payment of
interest on loans needed to cover the interim period reduction in
collections. An insured’s keeping duplicate records in safe storage off
premises is a highly recommended risk reduction technique—and the cost
of coverage is considerably reduced thereby. Insurance may be arranged
to cover electronic records as well as paper.
Actual cash value (ACV)
A method for placing value on property as of the time of its loss or
damage. ACV may be determined by market value (the current price for a
like item in the same general condition) or replacement cost new less
use depreciation (the cost of the same item brand new minus the
insured’s contribution to pay for the added life expectancy of the
property new property). The insured may generally select whichever
method is more favorable. Contrast with replacement cost.
Additional insured
One who qualifies as "insured" under the terms of a policy even though
not named as insured. Officers of a corporation may be included as
insureds under the terms of a policy written in the name of the
corporation.
Additional living expense insurance
This coverage, found in the broad and special dwelling and homeowners
forms, applies to extra expenses necessitated by the insured’s inability
to reside in the insured dwelling because of a covered loss—for example,
restaurant meals and hotel bills. The amount is the difference between
normal household expenses and the increase.
Adjuster
A person may act either on behalf of the insurance company or the
insured in the settling a claim. Independent adjusters represent the
insurance company on a fee basis; public adjusters represent the insured
on a fee basis.
Admitted company
An insurance company that is licensed (admitted) to conduct business
within a given state.
Admitted market
The range of insurance available through admitted companies.
Advance premium
Relates to a policy premium that cannot be precisely determined until
the end of the term. The advance premium, also called "deposit premium,"
is a downpayment on what will be final premium.
Adverse selection
The idea that the greater the likelihood of loss, the more attractive
the idea of buying insurance to cover that loss becomes.
Advertising injury
Claim arising out of slander, libel, copyright infringement, or
misappropriation of advertising ideas. Coverage is provided as part of
coverage B of the commercial general liability policy.
Agent
The term used for one person acting on behalf of another in an insurance
transaction.
Aggregate limit
The maximum amount an insurer will pay under a policy in any one policy
period.
Anniversary date
The anniversary of the original date of issue of a policy as shown in
the declarations.
Annual aggregate deductible
A deductible applied annually to the total amount paid in claims during
a policy period. Claims are generally subject to a per-occurrence
deductible; the aggregate is the limit beyond which no further
deductibles are applied.
Arson
The intentional setting afire of property.
Assigned risk
A risk that may not be generally acceptable to any insurance company but
for which the law says that insurance must be acquired. Personal auto
liability is one such necessary coverage. Insurance companies doing
personal auto business in a state can be required to accept assignment
of a portion of the state’s unacceptable drivers as insureds.
Automobile liability insurance
Insurance in which the insurer agrees to pay all sums for which the
insured is legally obligated because of bodily injury or property damage
arising from the ownership, maintenance, or use of an auto.
Automobile medical payments
Insurance applying to the medical, hospital, or funeral expenses of
anyone injured while on or in an insured automobile. The coverage is not
dependent on liability, being triggered simply by an accident. It may be
included in either the Business Auto Policy or the Personal Auto Policy.
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Bodily Injury
In Commercial General Liability insurance, refers to injuries to a
person, as well as sickness, disease and death.
Basic named perils
Covered perils in a property insurance contract: fire, lightning,
windstorm, civil commotion, smoke, hail, aircraft, vehicles, explosions
and riot.
Binder
An insurer’s agreement, by way of an agent, to provide non-life
insurance on the spot, pending issuance of the policy contract.
Blanket coverage
A means of insuring various items of property under one limit of
liability.
Blanket insurance
Insurance covering multiple items of property as a group. Covered
property may be at one location or several.
Bodily injury
A term that refers to physical injury, sickness, or disease, or death
resulting therefrom. In some jurisdictions "bodily injury: includes
emotional injury.
Bodily injury liability
Legal obligation that flows from the injury or death of another person.
This insurance is commonly limited to bodily injury liability derived by
the way of negligence, but coverage of liability by way of contract
(holding another harmless) is also possible.
Boiler & machinery insurance
Fired vessels, steam generators, mechanical and or electrical objects
and turbines, are all examples of "objects" that might be listed for
coverage under a boiler and machinery policy. Coverage is for damage to
covered property caused by an accident to an object identified in the
policy’s schedule. Coverage includes extra expense, automatic 90-day
coverage at new locations, defense against liability claims, and
supplementary payments like those provided under public liability
policies.
Bond
A document for expressing surety. A bond engages three entities; the
"surety" (bonding company) sells the bond to the "principal" for the
purpose of paying off the party the principal will owe to the "obligee"
upon failure of the "principal" to perform some act or provide some
service under agreed terms.
Bond, surety
A surety bond is the financial assumption of responsibility by one or
more persons for fulfilling another’s obligations.
Broad form perils
A property insurance designation for coverage that extends beyond the
basic named perils.
Broker
One who acts as the insured’s agent in arranging insurance. A broker may
also serve an the agent of an insurance company.
Builders risk insurance
A variation of property coverage specifically applicable to construction
projects. It is commonly written in an amount to cover the value of the
structure when completed. The premium charged takes into account that
values at risk increase gradually over the term of the policy.
Business Auto Policy (BAP)
A standardized contract for writing liability and property coverage on
commercial autos.
Business income coverage
Insurance protecting the income derived from an insured’s business
activities when curtailed peril. Coverage includes reasonable extra the
insured undertakes to expedite return to business operations.
Business personal property
A tern relating to "contents" of a commercial enterprise, it may include
furniture, fixtures, machinery and equipment as well as stock, all other
chattels owned by the insured, and even use interest in building
improvements and betterments.
Business Owners policy (BOP)
A package of property and liability insurance for small and medium size
businesses, the BOP owes its origin to the success of the homeowners
policy.
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Cancellation; flat, pro rata, or
short rate
In a flat cancellation the full premium is returned to the insured. A
pro rata cancellation means the insurer has charged for the time the
coverage was in force. Short rate cancellation entails a penalty in
excess of pro rata for early termination.
Cargo insurance
An inland marine or ocean marine policy covering cargo in the care,
custody, or control of the carrier.
Casualty insurance
The type of insurance concerned with legal liability for losses caused
by bodily injury to others or physical damage to property of others.
Certificate of insurance
A written description of insurance in effect as of the date and time of
the certificate. The certificate does not ordinarily confer any rights
on the holder, i.e., the issuing insurer does not promise to inform the
holder of change in or cancellation of coverage.
Claims-made coverage
A type of public liability insurance that responds only to claims for
injury or damage that are brought (to the insurer) during the policy
period (or during a designated extended reporting period beyond
expiration). The development was in response to "long tail" claims, such
as those related to asbestosis injury, carrying over many years and
multiple layers of coverage limits. However, most public liability
policies are written on an "occurrence" basis, covering injury or damage
occurring during the policy period even if a claim is brought months or
even years later.
Coinsurance clause
"Coinsurance" refers to the bargain between commercial property owners
and the insurance industry. The clause in property policies encourages
the property owner to gauge coverage needs by possible, not probable,
maximum loss. With $1 million at risk but a probable maximum loss of
$100,000, for example, the property owner would probably buy $100,000
insurance and bank on avoiding the larger disaster. The bargain offered
by the insurance industry is a reduced rate per $100 of coverage if the
owner agrees to buy coverage at a specified relation (80% commonly) to
value (to possible maximum loss in other words). If the insured accepts
the bargain but events prove the amount of insurance is inadequate to
the stated coinsurance percentage, the insured becomes "co-insurer" in
the same ratio as the amount of insurance bears to the amount that
should have been carried.
Collapse
A property insurance peril, subject to its own specific agreement in
commercial property policies, which otherwise insure on an open perils
basis.
Combined Single Limit (CSL)
Liability policies commonly offer separate limits that apply to bodily
injury claims for property damage. "50/100/25" is shorthand under such a
policy for $50,00 per person/$100,000 per accident for bodily injury
claims and $25,000 for property damage. A combined single limits policy
might cover for $100,000 per covered occurrence whether bodily injury or
property damage, one person or many.
Commercial General Liability (CGL)
The CGL policy is an ISO form, widely used to provide commercial
enterprises with premises and operations liability coverage, products
and completed operations insurance and personal injury coverage.
Premises medical payments coverage is often included as well.
Commercial lines
A distinction marking property and liability coverage written for
business or entrepreneurial interests as opposed to personal lines.
Commissioner of Insurance
The official in a state (or territory) responsible for administering
insurance regulation: sometimes called the Superintended of Insurance.
Compensatory damages
The award, usually monetary, that is intended to compensate the claimant
for injury sustained.
Comprehensive physical damage
(automobile)
Auto insurance covering physical damage except collision.
Contractors equipment floater
Coverage designed for the special needs of contractors to insure their
machinery and other equipment.
Contractual liability
Liability that does not arise by the way of negligence but by assumption
under contract. For example, in certain leases, a tenant may assume a
landlord’s liability to others unsafe conditions on the premises. Some
such assumptions are covered automatically under the Commercial General
Liability form.
Contributory negligence
A defense to a negligence action in which it is asserted that the
claimant failed to meet the standard required for his or her own
protection, and that the failure contributed to the loss.
Covered loss
An accident, including accidental damage by forces of nature, that
brings a contract of insurance into play.
Credit card forgery
A criminal act involving the illegitimate of credit cards to obtain
goods or money. Limited coverage for such losses is automatically
provided in most homeowners policies.
Crop Insurance
Insurance covering growing crops against hail, wind, and fire.
Protection against a broader range of perils can often be arranged as
well.
Claim
A demand to recover under an insurance policy for loss. In Commercial
General Liability insurance, a policy for loss. In Commercial Liability
insurance, the claim may be against the insured by a third party under
the insurance policy held by the insured. In this case, claims are
referred to the insurer to handle on behalf of the insured in accordance
with the term of the policy.
Claims-Made Policy
In Commercial General Liability insurance, a policy that pays for events
occurring during a specified period and for which a claim is made during
the policy period, subject to stipulated limitations and extensions.
Commercial General Liability
Insurance
A line of insurance available to commercial organizations and providing
coverage on behalf of insureds for sums they may be legally required to
pay to others as a result of the insureds’ actions or negligence. May
include coverage for bodily injury, property damage, personal injury,
advertising injury, medical payments, and certain supplemental payments
specified in the policy.
Commercial Package Policy (CPP)
The Insurance Services Office (ISO) commercial lines policy that
contains two or more lines of insurance or two or more coverage parts.
It will include some forms and/or endorsements that are common to all
lines of insurance or coverage parts, as well as the individual forms
and endorsements required for the individual coverages selected. In
order to quality as a CPP, the policy must include two or more of these
coverage parts: Commercial General Liability, various other liability
coverage parts, Commercial Property, Commercial Crime, Commercial Inland
Marine, Boiler and Machinery, Farm or Commercial Auto. Individual
insurers may have similar commercial packages with different
requirements.
Contract
A legal agreement between two or more parties. An insurance policy is a
contract.
Coverage
In insurance, the guarantee to pay for specific losses as provided under
the terms of the policy. Coverage means the same as protection and is
often used synonymously with the word "insurance."
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Debris removal clause
A consequential coverage commonly included in direct loss policies. For
example, fire policies limited recovery for the insured’s cost of
removing the debris after a covered fire. Not to be confused with
"removal."
Declaration page
That part of a property or liability insurance policy that discloses
information pertinent to the coverage promised including names,
addresses, limits, locations, term, premium, forms, and so on. The same
information, perhaps in a shorthand version, is contained as well in the
daily.
Deductible
The part of the loss that is to be borne by the insured; it comes off
the top of any payment from the insurer.
Deposit premium
When the price of insurance is tied to fluctuating values or costs that
cannot be known until the end of the policy period, inventory or payroll
are two common examples, a deposit or provisional premium or estimated
premium may be charged at the outset of a policy with final adjustment
to come at the end of the term.
Depreciation
A property ages and becomes worn it often loses value and that has to be
taken into account in any property insurance that covers loss of actual
cash value.
Driver Other Car (DOC) endorsement
A business auto or garage policy endorsement providing coverage for
named individuals while driving non-owned autos in situations related to
the business of the insured.
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Earned premium
The amount of policy premium that has been earned at any point in time
from inception of term to the end. A disproportionate amount will have
been "earned" during the early days of contract that is subject to short
rate cancellation.
Effective date
The date shown in the declarations of policy upon which coverage is to
take effect.
Employee dishonesty coverage
Insurance protecting employers from loss due to theft by their
employees.
Employers liability insurance
A feature of standard workers compensation policies, this coverage
applies to liability that may be imposed on an employer outside the
provisions of a worker compensation law.
Employers non-ownership liability
Employers who buy commercial auto coverage on a basis other than "any
auto" have this exposure whenever an employee uses his or her own auto
on the employer’s behalf.
Employment practices liability
Coverage against allegations of illegal or discriminatory hiring firing
practices, sexual harassment of employees, an so on.
Endorsement
An amendment to a policy form.
Errors and omissions coverage
A type of professional liability insurance protecting the insured
against claims alleging bodily injury or property damage caused by the
professional or technical incompetence of the insured.
Excess insurance
Coverage that applies on top of underlying insurance that is primary,
i.e., that pays until its coverage limit is exhausted at which point
that excess coverage takes over.
Excess or surplus lines market
The range of insurance available through non-admitted insurers, i.e.,
insurance companies that are not licensed in a particular state or
territory. Specific provisions of state or territorial law control
placements.
Experience
A record of losses.
Experience modification
The rising or lowering of premiums under term of an experience rating
plan.
Extended period of indemnity
A time of recovery of proved business income loss after physical
property is restored and business reopened. The 30-day extension of
business income forms may be extended by endorsement.
Excess Insurance
Insurance coverage that pays only after other insurance, called primary
insurance, has been exhausted.
Exclusion
Anything specifically stated in an insurance policy as not covered by
the policy.
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Farm Owners-ranch owners policy
A "homeowners" type package policy adapted to include farm and ranch
exposures.
Fiduciary liability insurance
The insurance covers claims arising from a breach of the
responsibilities or duties imposed on a benefit administrator, or a
negligent act, error, or omission of the administrator.
Fire
Combustion evidenced by a flame or glow. Insurance distinguishes between
a "hostile" fire (one out of bounds) and "friendly" fire (such as that
contained within the fire box of a stove).
Fire department service charge
A fee that may be imposed by a fire department for responding to a call.
Most fire coverage agreements include indemnification provisions for
such eventualities.
Fire legal liability
Public liability policies routinely exclude coverage for damage to
property in an insured’s care, custody, or control. This leaves a big
gap in a tenant’s coverage, a gap partially filled by an exception in
the commercial general liability policy that restores limited coverage
for fire damage to the landlord’s building. Perhaps the best benefit of
the exception is to call attention to the exposure so arrangement can be
made for broader coverage at appropriate limits.
First named insured
An insurance policy may have more than one party named as insured. In
such cases, the first named insured attends to policy "housekeeping,"
i.e., pays premium, initiates (or receive notice of) cancellation, or
calls for interim changes in the contract. This is spelled out in
commercial policies in the "common policy conditions."
Floater
An inland marine form covering movable property wherever located within
territorial limits.
Flood insurance
Flood insurance, like earthquake coverage, is usually only of interest
to those relatively few whose property is exposed. Consequently, losses
among this small group will be high and premiums can be prohibitive.
However, in 1968 the Federal government stepped in to help property
owners in designated "flood plains" with the National Flood Insurance
Act of 1968. Coverage is not only available, but may even be required to
obtain financing financing for exposed properties.
Fraud
The intentional perversion of the truth in order to mislead someone into
parting with something of value.
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Gap coverage
Insurance for a lessee designed to cover the difference in selling price
between a vehicle’s actual cash value, and the payout left on a lease.
Garage policy
One of the early package policies, it is written for automobile dealers
and may include liability for garage operations, automobile operations,
physical damage coverage on garage owned autos, bailees coverage on
customers cars, and auto and premises medical payments coverage.
Garagekeepers liability
A bailee coverage applying to automobiles. Commonly included in garage
policies, it may be written to provide coverage for limited perils or
for comprehensive physical damage, with or without collision damage
coverage. Coverage may be expressed as covering the legal liability of
the garagekeeper or amended to cover on a direct basis, as primary
insurance or excess.
Glass insurance
Commercial property form that covers plate glass, glass signs,
lettering, etc.
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Hired auto
A nonowned auto that may be borrowed as well as rented or leased by the
insured. Personal auto policy insureds are covered automatically for
hired autos, but business auto policy insureds may not be.
Hold harmless agreement
A contractual assumption by one party of the liability exposure of
another. Lease agreements, for example, commonly require the tenant to
hold the landlord harmless for bodily injury to property damage
experienced by others on the premises.
Home Owners insurance
An early and hugely successful example of "packaged" property and
liability insurance. A mid-twentieth century insurance development was
introduction of the so-called "multi-line era" in which insurers became
empowered to write both property and liability forms of insurance,
making way for the first packaging of these coverages within a single
policy.
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Indemnity
A fundamental concept governing insurance: compensation for loss or
injury sustained.
Independent agent
A "retailer" of insurance who, by contractual arrangement with a number
of insurance companies, sells, and services property and liability
insurance. The independent agent "owns" the policy information and
expiration dates of his client’s coverage and thus controls renewals and
their placement.
Inflation guard endorsement
An endorsement attached to an insurance policy whereby the limits of
liability on a piece of property are increased on a regular basis by a
certain percentage in order to offset increasing building costs
associated with inflation.
Inland marine insurance
Property insurance signaling broad coverage of properties exposed to the
transportation peril and those subject to being used or kept at a
location other than the insured’s customary premises. Eligible property
is identified in the so-called "Nationwide Definition of Marine
Insurance."
Insurable risk
The exposure to significant, measurable accidental loss from
identifiable perils. The exposure, while not catastrophic, must be
shared by a sufficient number of potential insureds so that the cost of
loss for one can be measured and affordably shared throughout the
market.
Insurance
A mechanism whereby risk of financial loss is transferred from
individual, company, organization, or other entity to an insurance
company.
Insurance policy
The document containing the contract between the insured and the insurer
which defines the right and duties of the contracting parties.
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Limits of Insurance
The greatest amount of insurance a policy will provide; the amount
beyond which the insurer is no longer required to pay.
Loss experience
What the loss history has been on a particular line or book of business.
Loss exposure
A set of circumstances presenting the possibility of loss, whether or
not the loss actually occurs.
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Marine insurance
Insurance primarily concerned with transportation exposures and property
that is commonly moved around from place to place. The field is divided
between inland marine and ocean marine.
Mobile Equipment
In the Commercial General Liability coverage forms, refers to certain
carefully and specifically described vehicles for use on land. Some such
vehicles are self-propelled while others are not. Some are used only
when attached to other vehicles or to provide mobility to certain
equipment. Some are intended for use on public roads while others are
not.
Medical malpractice
Type of insurance protecting physicians, surgeons, nurses, and other
medical practitioners against claims alleging failure to perform.
Merit rating
A form of auto rating in which an insured’s past experience as well as
anticipated experience is taken into account when arriving at a rate.
Minimum premium
An insurer’s lowest charge for an insurance policy.
Misrepresentation
Generally, misstatement of facts made on an application for insurance.
May also be misstatement of coverage made by an agent to an insured.
Monoline policy
An insurance policy covering one subject of insurance, as opposed to a
combination of multiline policy.
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Named insured
The party of parties specifically named as insured in the insurance
contract. Others may have claim on the coverage of a policy by way of
internal provisions, but any such right is by way of the agreement
between the named insured and the insurance company.
Named insured
The individual or organization named in the declaration of an insurance
policy as the insured, as opposed to someone who may have an interest in
the coverage, but is not named in the policy.
Named Perils
A formal and specific listing of perils covered in a policy providing
property insurance. A policy covering for damage by fire is said to
cover for "the named peril" of fire.
Nonowned auto
This term signifies an auto that is neither owned, hired, nor borrowed
by the insured under a commercial auto policy. Employees’ cars used in
company business are commonly classified this way. The employer’s auto
liability cover for use of nonowned autos is covered by entry of symbol
1 ("any auto") or symbol 9 ("nonowned autos") on the declaration page.
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Occurrence
In general, an event that triggers coverage under any policy.
Specifically, an event that triggers coverage under an occurrence-based
liability policy. Such a policy covers injury or damage that occurs
during the policy period even if claim is brought months or even years
after the policy has expired.
Off premises cover
Commercial property policies commonly established a small coverage limit
that applies to property temporarily away from the insured’s place of
business.
Occurrence Policy
In Commercial General Liability insurance, a policy that pays for events
that occur during its policy term, regardless of when a claim is filed.
That is, an expired occurrence policy will pay a valid claim even if the
claim is made years later, provided that the event occurred while the
policy was in effect.
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Package policy
Any combination of insuring agreements that combines property and
casualty coverages. Homeowners, business owners, and garage policies are
examples.
Peril
A potential cause of loss.
Personal liability insurance
Insurance for individuals or members of a household offering protection
against claims by third parties. (outsiders) alleging bodily injury or
property damage due to negligence.
Personal lines
Insurance covering the liability and property damage exposures of
private individuals and their households. Contrast with "commercial
lines."
Products and completed operations
liability
The liability exposure of the manufacturer whose malfunctioning products
may cause injury or property damage or of the contractors whose failed
structures or projects may do the same. Coverage of the exposure is a
feature of the commercial general liability policy. The insurance does
not in any way constitute a guarantee of either the insured’s product or
work. Contrast with "premises and operations liability.."
Professional liability
A form of errors and omissions insurance, (sometimes called
"malpractice" coverage of errors alleged against those in the healing
and legal professions). Arbitrarily it seems, "error and omissions" is
the term applied most often to insurance covering liability for mistakes
in matters affecting property, i.e., coverage for "Insurance Agents
E&O," "Architects E&O while "professional liability" is used in
reference to coverages such as "Druggists Professional Liability,"
Physicians and Surgeons Professional Liability," and "Lawyers
Professional Liability."
Proximate cause
That event which, in an unbroken sequence, results in direct physical
loss under an insurance policy. For example, wind is the proximate cause
of loss when a windstorm blows out a window that in turn topples a lit
candle that sets fire to a structure and burns it down.
Pure risk
The only consideration is the possibility of loss. Contrast with
"speculative risk."
Products-Completed Operations Hazard
Refers to bodily injury and property damage that occur somewhere other
than the insured’s premises, and involve the insured’s products or work,
subject to the limitations and parameters specified in the Commercial
General Liability coverage forms.
Property Damage
In the Commercial General Liability coverage forms, refers to physical
damage to tangible property and to loss of use tangible property,
whether or not physically damaged.
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Renters insurance
Term for insurance for the non-owner occupant of a dwelling or
apartment.
Retroactive date
The date that defines the extent of coverage in time under claims-made
liability policies. Claims resulting from occurrences prior to the
policy’s stated retroactive date are excluded.
Risk management
The process of handling pure risk by way of reduction, elimination, or
transfer of risk, with the latter commonly achieved through insurance.
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Schedule
List of items on a policy declaration, sometimes also showing
descriptions and values.
Special form
In contrast to the named perils forms in property insurance, those forms
that list specific perils for coverage, the special form contract covers
simply risk of direct physical loss, relying on exclusions to delimit an
define the protection intended.
Split limits
As in auto insurance, where rather than one liability amount applying on
a per-accident basis, separate amounts apply to bodily injury and
property damage liability.
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Umbrella liability
A liability contract with high limits covering over top of primary
liability coverages and, subject to deductible, covering exposures
otherwise uninsured.
Underinsured motorists coverage
Coverage for the insured and passengers whenever the at-fault driver in
an accident has auto liability insurance with lesser limits than the
insured’s. This coverage lies atop "uninsured motorists coverage" or
atop the at-fault driver’s low limit automobile liability insurance and
provides the insured and passengers with protection equal (usually) to
the insured’s own automobile liability cover.
Uninsurable risk
An uninsurable risk is one which is literally uninsurable because loss
is certain rather than possible.
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Vacant property
Once defined as devoid of occupants or contents, a stricter definition
is being applied as more and more communities find older buildings of
three and four stories that are only one quarter occupied. Property
policies impose limitations on coverage of "vacant" building so that
(changing) definition of vacant property is quite important.
Vicarious liability
The condition arising where one person is responsible for the actions of
another, as a parent is often held responsible for the vandalism damage
a minor child does to a school.
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Waiver of subrogation
An insurer has the right of subrogation; however, it may waive that
right through this method.
Wear and tear exclusion
A common heading for an "all risks" exclusion relating to a group of
events that do not represent risk at all. Property will become worn out
and torn; it will rust, settle, become rotted, infested, marred,
scratched, etc. It is easy to distinguish however between the marring
that occurs over time (excluded) and marring that occurs when a concrete
block is dropped into a fine wooden table.
Workers compensation insurance
Coverage that conforms to the workers compensation laws of the states in
which it written.
Workers Compensation and Employers
Liability Insurance
A type of liability insurance not included in the Commercial General
Liability coverage part. Workers Compensation makes benefits payable for
injuries to, disability or death of an employee without regard to
liability. Employers Liability covers the common-law liability of an
employer for injuries to an employee. Because these coverages are
related specifically to employer-employee relationships, they are not
characterized as general liability.
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