General Liability
If You Have a Personal Umbrella Liability Policy, There’s Generally an Exclusion for Business-Related Liability.
Unfortunately for every business owner, the chances of getting sued have dramatically increased in the last decade. General liability insurance can prevent a legal suit from turning into a financial disaster by providing financial protection in case your business is ever sued or held legally responsible for some injury or damage. General Liability pays losses arising from real or alleged bodily injury, property damage, or personal injury on your business premises or arising from your operations.
Broad Range ofGeneral Liability Protection
- Bodily injury, including the cost of care, the loss of services, and the restitution for any death that results from injury
- Property damage coverage for the physical damage to property of others or the loss of use of that property
- Products-completed operations provides liability protection (damages and legal expenses up to your policy’s limit) if an injury ever resulted from something your company made or a service your company provided
- Products liability is a more specialized product liability insurance that protects your company against lawsuits from product-related injury or accidents
- Contractual liability extends to any liability you may assume by entering into a variety of contracts
- Other coverage includes: Reasonable Use of Force; Borrowed Equipment; Liquor Liability; Non-Owned Vehicles (such as aircraft and watercraft); Fire, Lightning or Explosion Damage; Water Damage Liability Protection; Legal Defense Costs; Medical Payments; Personal Injury; Advertising Injury; and specialized liability protection for specific business types
Commercial General Liability (Cgl) Policy Is Extremely Broad in Nature.
It insures the bodily injury liability and property damage liability exposures of a variety of commercial businesses, enterprises, and ventures. The broad nature of these forms eliminates having to select and group individual or specific hazards, with the resulting potential gaps in coverage.
These policies can be offered on either an occurrence or a claims-made basis, as a monoline policy, or combined with one or more other lines of insurance to form a commercial package policy. The basic exposures of the named insured covered by the CGL coverage forms include: