Commercial Property Insurance

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Commercial Property Insurance

• Chapter 10
• Business Property Insurance
• Appendix C
• Building and Personal Property Coverage Form

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Property Risk Management

• Property loss - any loss that a person or
  organization sustains as a result of the
  damaging, destruction, taking or loss of use of
  property in which that person or organization has
  a financial interest
• Risk Management Process
• 1 - Identify and analyze loss exposures
• 2 - Examine the feasibility of alternative risk
  management techniques
• 3 - Select the best risk management technique
• 4 - Implement the technique
• 5 - Monitor the program

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Identify and Analyze Loss Exposures

• Property Loss Exposures
• 1 - The item exposed to loss
• Real property
• Personal property
• Valuable information
• 2 - The cause of loss anything that could
• cause a loss to property
• 3 - The effects of loss
• Reduction in value
• Increased cost to repair or replace
• Loss of revenue
• Extra expense
• Direct loss and indirect loss

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Overview of Commercial Property Insurance

• Insurance Advisory Organizations
• Insurance Services Office (ISO)
• American Association of Insurance Services
  (AAIS)
• Develop and file with state insurance
  departments
• Policy forms
• Manual rules
• Loss costs

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ISO Commercial Lines Program (1986)

• Commercial property
• Building and contents (on or within 100 of
  insured location)
• Boiler and machinery
• Commercial crime
• Employee dishonesty, forgery, theft, burglary,
  robbery, extortion
• Commercial inland marine
• Elements of transportation or communication
• Property in transit, mobile equipment, property
  being installed by a contractor, bridges, radio
  towers
• Farm
• Commercial auto and liability

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Building and Personal Property Coverage Covered
Property

• Building - Table 10-1
• Your business personal property Table 10-2
• Property owned by the insured
• Furniture and fixtures
• Machinery and equipment
• Stock
• All other personal property owned by you and
  used in your business
• Property owned by others
• Labor, materials or services furnished on
  property of others
• Improvements and betterments
• Leased personal property
• Personal property of others
• 2500 for property in the care, custody or
  control of insured

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Property Not Covered under BPPTable 10-3

• Buildings and other real property
• Land Roadways
• Water Retaining walls
• Bridges Piers
• Plants and outdoor property
• Growing crops and lawns
• Outdoor crops
• Outdoor trees, shrubs and plants
• Outdoor fences
• Outdoor signs, unless attached to buildings

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Property Not Covered - continued

• Other personal property
• Deeds
• Evidence of debt
• Money
• Currency
• Accounts
• Bills
• Securities and notes
• Also, food stamps
• Vehicles, Watercraft, Aircraft
• Animals
• Valuable papers and records
• Property otherwise covered (BPP is excess)
• Contraband

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Building and Personal Property Coverage

• Covered locations
• Described locations and off premises
• Additional coverages Table 10-4
• Debris removal
• Pollutant cleanup and removal
• Preservation of property
• Fire department service charge

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Building and Personal Property Coverage

• Coverage Extensions Table 10-4
• Newly acquired or constructed property
• Personal effects and property of others
• Valuable papers and records
• Property off premises
• Outdoor property
• Covered only for fire, lightning,
• explosion, riot or civil commotion or
• aircraft

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Covered Causes of Loss

• Evolution
• Fire
• Fire and lightning (Standard Fire Policy)
• Extended coverage (EC)
• Vandalism and malicious mischief (VMM)

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Extended Coverage(W.C.SHAVER)

• Wind
• Civil commotion
• Smoke
• Hail
• Aircraft
• Vehicles
• Explosion
• Riot

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BPP Cause of Loss Options

• Basic Form Table 10-5
• Fire, lightning and extended coverages
• Sprinkler leakage
• Sinkhole collapse
• Volcanic action
• Broad Form Table 10-5
• Basic form perils plus
• Weight of snow, ice or sleet
• Water damage
• Falling objects
• Breakage of glass
• Special Form All Risk
• Includes limited coverage for theft

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Concurrent Causation

• California court rulings of the 1980s
• If a loss to property can be attributed to two
  or more causes, as long as one of the causes is
  not excluded the loss is covered.
• Examples
• Flood and negligent construction of flood
  control structures (Palm Desert)
• Landslide and faulty installation of drain

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Other Exclusions - Maintenance

• Wear and tear
• Rust, corrosion, fungus, decay, deterioration,
  hidden or latent defect
• Smog
• Settling, cracking, shrinking or expansion
• Insects, birds, rodents, or other animals
• Mechanical breakdown (except elevator collision)
• Dampness, dryness, changes or extremes of
  temperature, and marring or scratching

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Other Exclusions - Theft Related

• Employee dishonesty
• Voluntary parting
• Unauthorized instructions
• Inventory shortage
• Unexplained disappearance
• Theft of building materials
• Dollar Limitations
• 2500 for furs
• 2500 for patterns, dies, molds and forms
• 2500 for jewelry,.gold, silver,..
• 250 for stamps, tickets (including lottery
  tickets held for sale, and letters of credit

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Consequential Property CoverageBusiness Income
Coverage

• Business interruption
• Net income
• Continuing normal operating expenses incurred
• Extra expense
• Monthly limit of indemnity
• Maximum period of indemnity
• Payroll endorsements

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Other Property Coverage

• Commercial Crime Coverage
• Inland Marine
• Boiler and Machinery
• Businessowners Policy

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Inland Marine Insurance

• Development
• Regulatory restrictions on other coverages
• Could offer all-risk coverage
• Less restrictive regulations

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Nationwide Marine Definition

• Imports
• Exports
• Domestic shipments
• Instrumentalities of transportation and
  communication (bridges, tunnels, piers, power
  lines, television towers)
• Various types of individual personal property
  (jewelry, furs, instruments)
• Various types of business property (mobile
  equipment, animals, computers)

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General Characteristics of Inland Marine Policies

• Coverage for property in transit
• Loss exposures covered
• Physical loss
• Business income and extra expense
• Broad coverage of perils
• Valuation provisions
• Actual cash value, replacement cost, selling
  price, invoice value or agreed value