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The Micro-Businessowners Coverage Form—also known as the Micro-BOP—may be a good and inexpensive answer for your smaller entrepreneurs without commercial property exposures.

​As we head into a new year, there’s no better time to equip producers with foundational insurance industry knowledge and concepts.

A contractor caused a slow leak while remodeling a bathroom and had to remove a large part of their work. What parts of the repair are excluded under the Damage to Your Work exclusion?

An employee’s purse was stolen when she startled a robber in the middle of a break in. The carrier says the loss is excluded from the business owners policy under the theft exclusion.

An insured is leaving her house in an employer-owned company car and backs into her fence. She files a claim with the business auto policy carrier, but the carrier denies it.

A burst city waterline causes water damage to the common area of a mall, which is insured under a proprietary Special Cause of Loss form. Can the carrier deny coverage based on the water exclusion?

An insured tree removal service rents a power crane mounted on the back of a truck and damages a structure while removing a downed tree. Can the carrier deny the claim based on the Mobile Equipment exclusion?

An agent starts noticing three contractual requirements becoming more common for their contractor clients. How should they handle them?

Your builders risk clients trust you to help them secure effective coverage for their myriad exposures. Make sure tricky policy language doesn’t have a negative impact on their ability to recover from a loss.

Lease agreements routinely include provisions that impose liability on the tenant for repairing damage to leased premises from any cause, not just fire.