Commercial Lines

CGL Additional Insured and Insured Status Endorsement Changes

Insurance Services Office (ISO), in its most recent multistate endorsement revision filing, made a minor change to 25 additional insured endorsements; brought two additional insured endorsements up-to-date and in alignment…

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Excluding Electronic Smoking Devices (E-Cigarettes)

ISO promulgated two endorsements specific to e-cigarettes. One is an absolute exclusion and the second is a bodily injury only exclusion with a key exception. Be wary when either is…

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Cannabis Exclusions for the CGL

ISO released three cannabis exclusion endorsements for use with the commercial general liability policy (CGL) with effective dates of December 1, 2019. All three endorsements exclude cannabis, two have a…

Understanding Liquor Liability Coverage

With a very hard liquor liability coverage market, especially in dram shop law states, understanding liquor liability coverage is vital to agents writing bars, restaurants and taverns. When anyone is…

How Many Different ‘Values’ Can Property Have?

Property can be assigned many “values” depending on the purpose of the valuation and who is valuing it. But insurance is concerned with only four options: actual cash value, replacement…

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Cannabis (and Marijuana) Exclusions and Exceptions

ISO is intent on developing cannabis-related endorsements. To date it appears that most are exclusionary endorsements. Because the federal government and the states seems to be on opposite sides of…

BOP Not High on Cannabis

ISO introduced five new cannabis exclusions for use with the BOP policy. Two of the five are essentially “absolute” exclusions and three have a hemp exception. This article introduces and…

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