A tornado severely damages one of Major Manufacturing's plants. As a result of the damage, Major Manufacturing is forced to curtail its operations during
... [Show More] the 6 months needed to complete repairs. The resulting loss of income suffered by Major Manufacturing is referred to as
a time element loss.
Which of the following describes a feature of standard commercial property policies?
Several different forms must be combined to make up a policy.
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The president of Handy Corner Grocery has just learned that its accounting clerk has been embezzling money from the company for the past 6 months. Handy has a standard commercial property policy, a standard commercial general liability policy, and a workers compensation and employers liability policy. Which of these policies covers this loss?
None of these policies cover the loss
An insurance company that specializes in coverage for religious institutions publishes its own policy forms that provide broader coverage than the ISO forms. This insurer's forms would not be referred to as
standard forms.
Duffy's Tavern is currently insured under a commercial package policy that includes only commercial property coverage and commercial general liability coverage. Duffy would like to add coverage for equipment breakdown. This can be done by
adding either a separate equipment breakdown policy or an equipment breakdown coverage endorsement to Duffy's commercial property policy.
A small fire in the Dalton Hotel basement damaged the computerized system that controls all elevators in the hotel. It will be necessary-and costly-to completely reprogram the system to replace the lost data. Dalton has a commercial property policy that
covers this loss because electronic data that is integrated with the elevator system is not excluded.
A building owned by Mega Properties has been continuously vacant for 6 months. In the seventh month, a lightning strike starts a fire which destroys the building. Assuming that Mega's commercial property policy is written on standard forms, how much would the insurer reduce the loss payment because of the vacancy of the building?
The insurer would discount the loss payment by 15 percent because the building was vacant.
Ad Men Advertising Agency is located on the 25th floor of a high-rise building, and the declarations of its commercial property policy list its location as "Suite 2500, 1271 Madison Avenue, New York, NY." Ad Men's valuable laser printer is stolen from the building's outdoor ground-floor loading dock when an employee leaves it unattended while fetching his car. Ad Men's policy includes the special causes of loss form. Ad Men's insurance
covers this loss because the property was within 100 feet of the building.
Executive Dry Cleaning wants to have coverage for personal property of its customers in its commercial property policy. What must be done to activate this coverage under the standard building and personal property coverage form?
A limit of insurance for personal property of others must be shown on the policy declarations page. [Show Less]