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  2. Definition of Liability Insurance: The easiest definition of 'liability insurance' is the Insurance coverage to safeguard against claims alleging that one's negligence or inappropriate action led to bodily injury or property damage.
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  4. People & organizations can and do mistakes that they become liable if and when these acts ruled to be the cause for damaging the bodies or the properties of others. This is when insurance policies come to supply the protection. Liability coverage pays once the insured is legally liable for the negligent act. In some situations, the coverage provides protection if the insured becomes 'morally obligated' to a party that's damaged by the non-negligent acts of the insured.
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  6. People/ organizations vary widely within their social and business conduct, therefore does the coverage that is had a need to protect them. For every category of people/ organizations there are different coverages offering the protections. Different people/ organizations need different types/ levels of liability coverage.
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  8. Classification of Liability
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  10. Personal vs Commercial Liability: Personal liability insurance provides coverage for folks while commercial liability provides coverage for a small business entity. A 4-door sedan car needs personal auto liability policy. If the same vehicle can be used for delivery, then it could require a commercial auto policy.
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  12. Personal Liability Protection normally will come in personal policies such as for example Personal Auto Policies (PAPs), Homeowners Insurance Policies, boat policies, and Personal Umbrellas. These coverages pay for damages that the Insured causes to the bodily injuries, personal injury, property damages, legal defense in connection with claims brought against the Insured.
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  14. Business/ Commercial Liability Protection: Comes to cover businesses and/or individuals regarding the their business conducts.
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  16. Premises Liability applies when someone apart from the insured or insured's employees sues the business for damages due to an injury sustained in business premises. This means that the injured party must first suffer an injury on your premises, and then must make a claim for the damages they suffered.
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  18. Product Liability includes liability protection for business completed services or products. Similar coverage is provided beneath the term 'completed operations' such as operations of many contractors in the event that they cause damages to others in the course of their service rendering. Professional service businesses such as physicians, lawyers, real estate brokers, and insurance agents have special professional liability coverages.
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  20. Professional Liability. Provides protection for many classes of people and businesses for any bodily injury damages their service/ advice may cause to others. Examples include malpractice insurance for doctors and medical staff, errors & omissions for insurance & realtors, etc.
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  22. Employer's Liability provides coverage for employees during their employment. The employer has to be responsible or negligent for the coverage to kick in. In the case of Workers Compensation, fault and negligence do not have to be proved for employee to collect for just about any work related injury.
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  24. Director's and Officers insurance provides protection against any lawsuits contrary to the officers of the business enterprise by its owners. Garage Liability applies in situations in which a business deals with vehicles owned by others. The coverage provides protection from the risks of being sued because of using vehicles owned by the business enterprise and vehicles that are owned by others (clients.) In the event that a business/ individual works with or takes possession of other people's vehicles, a special coverage called "Garage Keeper Liability" is necessary. Garage Keeper Liability provides comprehensive and collision coverage on vehicles NOT owned by the business enterprise while the vehicles are in possession of the business. Auto service stations, valet parking businesses, towing services, and car washes are types of businesses that need garage liability and garage keeper liability protection. Garage keeper liability can be written on Direct Basis or Excess. In the even of Direct Basis, the policy will pay for damages of vehicles of the customers of the Insured irrespective of who is responsible. Regarding Excess, the policy can pay for damages of vehicles of the customers of the Insured only if the Insured is negligent.
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  26. Liquor Liability provides protection for establishments that sell liquor (Packaged liquor, taverns, manufacturers of liquor) against loss or damages claimed due to a patron of the business enterprise becoming intoxicated and injuring themselves or others.
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  28. Inland Marine/ Cargo Liability provides protection for business involved with hauling merchandise and properties of others. It will pay for damages of the properties hauled in case the Insured is likely for the damages.
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  30. Time Factors of Liability Insurance Polices
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  32. Some commercial liability insurance policies are written on Claim Made Basis. This means that the policy in force at that time a claim contrary to the insured will pay for losses, regardless of when they occurred in the past. Most professional liability policies are written on Claim Made basis. Liability Insurance Brokers Acle are written on Occurrence Basis, where even though the policy may have expired, provided the policy was in effect at the time that the bodily injury or property damage occurred, a claim can be made against it.
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  34. Liability Limits
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  36. CSL or Combined Single Limit policies allow insurance companies to mix both bodily injury liability and property damage liability insurance under a single limit. The insurance provider would pay up to the stated limit on an authorized claim whether or not the claim was for bodily or property damage. In Split Limit policies, the policy would break down limits to, for example, bodily injury limit per person and bodily injury limit per accident and property damage per accident.
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  38. Example, an auto policy with CSL $300,000 can pay up to that limit for just about any and all claims if they are bodily injury for one person, many people, or property damage that has been due to the Insured. If the policy limits come separated (100/300/50) it means that the insurer will pay the maximum of $100,000 for bodily injury of 1 1 person, $300,000 for bodily injuries of most other people hurt, and no more than P,000 for property damage caused by the insured negligent act.
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