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HO Coverage for College Student Residing in an Apartment

Your insured’s 21 year old daughter is moving from a dorm to an apartment at college. She has been covered on your family HO and PUP policies but the underwriter…

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The ‘Dumb’ Things We Do

Let’s face it, even the best and brightest of us sometimes do dumb things and often it’s with good intentions to help a customer. But the cold, hard E&O reality…

Swimming Pools…HO Coverage A or B?

We often get questions about in ground pools and whether they’re HO Coverage A or B. HO guru David Thompson explains, with photos, why this isn’t always cut and dried,…

How to End Telephone Price Shopping

Is too much of your staff’s time being spent responding to telephone requests for auto quotes? One agency getting 80 calls a day seeks a way out and the VU…

CP Coverage for Docks

A dock is damaged by a covered peril but the carrier denies the claim, citing the “piers, wharves, docks” exclusion. You argue that his language applies to permanent docks, not…

Drivers vs. Insureds

We find that often there is a misconception that listing someone as a driver on an auto policy automatically makes them an insured or that someone is not an insured…

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CGL Care, Custody and Control by Contractors

You insure a residential painting contractor. Many of his customers give him access to their homes when they are not around. What if he damages the premises while having sole…

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HO Coverage for Damage Caused by Falling Tree

What happens if an insured’s tree falls and damages property or injures someone on a neighbor’s premises? If the occurrence is caused by an “Act of God,” is the insured…

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Read the Policy You’re Selling

This may be the most important coverage article you read this year. It may be the most important coverage article you’ve ever read. Please read it. And please have your…

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