COMMERCIAL
PROPERTY
Commercial Property insurance may be issued alone or as
part of a commercial package policy. Many different Commercial
Property Coverage forms are available. You may choose to add
one or more of these forms to your Commercial Package Policy or
each form can be issued separately. Each coverage form is
designed to insure specific types of property losses.
Commercial Building and Personal Property:
This is the most frequently used. It is a general purpose
form used to write coverage for direct loss to buildings, to
business contents and equipment, or to both. Contents must be
specified in order to be covered. There is no automatic
coverage on items not specified in your insuring agreement.
Business Income Coverage: (business
interruption): Applies to losses and expenses related
to an interruption of normal business operations. Only
losses incurred during a period of restoration are covered.
Contingent Business Interruption (Business income
from Dependent Properties): Protects business income
from interruption due to loss or damage that the insured does
not own, operate, or control.
Extra Expense Coverage: Coverage for actual
and necessary extra expenses sustained due to a direct physical
loss by a peril covered in your insuring agreement.
Legal Liability: Coverage applies to the
insured’s responsibility for the property of others.
Glass Coverage: Covers for commercial
plate glass, frames, lettering, and ornamentation.
Condominium Association coverage: Provided
for the building, permanent structures, and facilities.
Does not cover personal property owned by a
condominium unit owner.
Crime Insurance General Provisions (Commercial
Crime): This form has specific conditions, exclusions,
and definitions that are applicable to most crime coverage.
Burglary, Extortion, Robbery, Safe Burglary, and Theft
(larceny) are all acts of crime and are written as separate
forms.
Commercial Inland Marine: Commercial Inland
Marine policies provide All Risk coverage, usually covering
property anywhere in the world, , Imports, Exports,
Domestic Shipments, Instrumentalities of Transportation or
Communication, Personal Property Floater Risks, Commercial
Property Floater are eligible marine risks.
Boiler and Machinery Coverage: Fills
the gaps left by the major forms of property and liability
coverage. This form is specifically designed to cover loss to
the insured’s boiler and machinery, and the damage to property
of others caused by an explosion of a boiler or other covered
object or machine.
Transportation Coverage: Supplies coverage
for Motor Truck Cargo, Owner’s/ Shipper’s, Annual Transit, Trip
Transit. Common carriers, truck lines and railroads must accept
a certain amount of legal liability for losses to cargo.
Farm Coverage: Blends the residential and
commercial coverage unique to farms. Farm Property, Mobile
Agricultural and Equipment, Farm Liability, and Livestock.
If you have any further questions, please call us at
Executive Insurance Group. Our team of experts can be reached
Mon-Fri 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at 330.966.0080 locally, 800.981.0080
toll free, or email: info@executiveinsurance.com
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